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Your previous segment. were going to have to have congress exercising its oversight function, investigations into all of this coming from the woodward and costa book but this does not argue well for the ability of congressional committees to comport themselves in a way that augments, rather than subtracts further from public confidence and institutions. >> all right. george, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. and as i said, i hope everyone will get georges new book american happiness a...

Foreign relations committee, as we think about what happened here and as we think about the future in terms of foreign policy have to have that dimension before the committee. so i hope that the secretary will accept our invitation at a future date to come before the committee so we can get those perspectives. >> it sounds like you wish you had heard about the scheduling conflict sooner in the relief that he sent. if he doesnt come, would you rule out a subpoena? >> chuck, you know, i have alway...

I have to tell you, when you see all of this haphazard planning when it came to withdrawal, we didnt decide to withdraw at the last second, we have been preparing for this a year and a half. how did things like this end up so poorly? >> great question and one im sure were going to be asking in the united states congress as part of the oversight function. as i said earlier, theres been mistakes made over the 20 years in afghanistan. i think starting with the bush administration in being distracte...

Democratic lawmakers arent speaking out in the presidents defense? >> i mean, i think you have heard from a lot of key democrats on capitol hill who will be chairing committee hearings starting next week. so there is clearly an opportunity here for congress to perform its oversight function of the administration, and even though they are loyal biden supporters, these democratic chairman and chair women, they are going to do their jobs in that way. theyve made clear, and as jeff was saying, so ma...

Failure? now this is a basic constitutional oversight function of congress. if this fails to act it will have hundred itself completely pointless other than being a socialist / and that the american people are voting to end these wars since 2008 we have been right the whole time its obvious the afghan government is hopeless lets government is hopeless lets just get out 20 me now is an infantry for the platoon leader as a current candidate for the senate in a pennsylvani. shine you were there is ...

That all collapsed. as the taliban advances to the contrary, the president green with the of three infantry battalions, going back in, thats 3,000 troops. this mission is supposedly an evacuation of embassy personnel, how do we not plan for that earlier? its worth asking if you need three battalions for that, what is really happening? the truth of the matter is congress must investigate why we spent so much money on the afghan army and why those expenditures have proven so useless. the pentagon ...

To interfere with the note and phone call and elsewhere? >> this is a common question from our viewers. how much is enough for somebody to do something here? so lets break down what theoretically or possibly could happen. first of all, youve got congress. congress has an important role to play here. congress does have the impeachment power. we know that. you can impeach a former official. although, it hasnt worked thus far with donald trump. its not likely to impeach for a third time but in norm...

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All. >> as a former prosecutor, former federal judge with many high positions, you look at a pattern of conduct, right? you can look at specific conduct but a pattern of conduct. a pattern of conduct by this house under the democrats has been to seek and destroy. they have issued scores of subpoenas of the presidents private finances, tax returns, his bank records, his past businesses and have had nothing to do with their oversight function. theyve issued subpoenas relating to issues that would ...