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Book? >> woodard, yes, casta, no? >> did you talk to michael bender for his book, frankly we did win this election, inside story of how trump loss, yes or no? >> yes. >> were you accurately represented in these books? >> i havent read any of the books, i dont know. ive seen press reporting of it, i havent read the books. >> lets have you read the books and us know if you are accurately portrayed. >> senator blackburn, five-empty rule. thank you. >> senator rosen, please. >> thank you, chairman, ...

Promised to actually do that. but, as he also said in his testimony, there was absolutely no indication whatsoever that former president trump was going to start any war. so i was pressing this issue because its a really important one. right now, the book says one thing that was in the "the washington post." general milley says something else. but i think its really important, as we are going to continue to do oversight to get to the bottom of this, and also importantly, the bottom of the issues...

>> did you talk to bob woodward or robert costa for their book "pearl". >> woodward yes, costa, no. >> did you talk to kara and phillip for their book "alone i can fix it"? >>. >> did you talk to michael bender for his book "frankly we did win this election, the inside story of how trump lost"? >> yes. >> and were you accurately represented in these books? >> i havent read any of the books so i dont know. i have not seen press reporting of it. i havent read the books. >> okay. lets have you read...

>> did you talk to michael bender for his book, frankly we did win this election, the inside story of how trump lost. >> yes >> and were you accurately represented in these books? >> i havent read any of the books. >> senator blackburn was going for a gotcha, but it didnt seem as though general milley was taking the bait. what did you think? >> its interesting, and unusual in washington. i wish there were more high level sources in washington who would testify under oath and simply admit that th...

Counterterrorism on the ground, m illey said it was a statistical success but a failure. its hard to spin leaving all of our interpreters and americans behind as a logistical success. who are the people they got out? not the people they were supposed to help. >> jesse: right. milley we learn suicide a huge leaker, dan. he is talking to everybody in the media, all of these authors. heres senator marsha blackburn asking what the general has been doing this whole time instead of planning the afghan...

You say that you thought they were giving not answers, this was a question that was surprising question that he gave fairly direct answers to. >> yes. >> john: here. >> general milley, yes or no to this, did you talk to bob woodard or robert costa for their book "peril," and -- >> woodward yes, costa, no. >> did you talk to michael bender for the book is frankly we did win this election the inside story of how trump lost yes or no? >> yes. >> were you accurately represented in these books? >> i ...

>> bret: it was a major intel screw up if you tore believe everything being said about it because you could see it come. a lot of people talked about it even up on capitol hill. mollie, the other thing that struck me in the q and a was the revelation about the chairman of the joint chiefs talking to these various authors, take a listen. >> did you talk to bob woodward or robert costa for their work "peril" woodward costa know. >> did you talk to philip alone can i fix it. >> yes. >> did you talk...

Explaining his reporting. its not a secret that he has sources. the high level sources are acknowledged or pretty clearly interpretable in the account. thats where some of the questioning went. at that i can a look at this exchange with congresswoman blackburn. >> did you talk to bob woodard or robert costa for their book "peril". >> woodward, yes. >> did you talk to michael bender for his book is frankly we did win this election the inside story of how trump lost. >> yes or no. >> and were you ...

0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didnt address the issue that you made -- if it was your ...

0 about 100 americans and that figure doesnt change. we need a real accounting for how many people, big difference between 100 and 4000. my biggest takeaway, we have no counter terrorism strategy and milley and mckenzie testifyod this, mckenzie said he is not confident we can prevent al qaeda or isis. >> harris: i am rushing, it is top of the hour, kayleigh and emily, everybody on "outnumbered," quick one for us as we ark wait the panel to reconvene. thanks for watching fox news. our coverage co...