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Afghans. i visited with afghans, our troop, many federal agencies work together, n gegos. compassion on the american side and the deep appreciation on the afghan side. my chief criticism is why did the afghan military and government collapse so quickly and why did we overestimate their capacity? the second half of that question is important. to any who said we couldnt see this coming, members of the committee know thats wrong. an immediate collapse maybe wouldnt have been the most likely but wev...

Administration that wanted a political victory more than they wanted an american racial inequitiry. have you reached out to the aircrew to make sure they understand its not their sfaul there are seven dead children? >> i have not, senator. as you probably know, ive directed a three-star review of this incident, general mckenzie did an initial investigation, and i directed a three-star review and so i wont make any comments. >> you know, certainly seem to be a lot of indications that a terrorist ...

But the rest of the ecosystem would go out with it too. the nato partners are going to leave and youll leave the afghans by themselves. >> did any of you embrace the notion that the 2,500 plus the several thousand, i think an estimated 5,000 nato allies and partners who were willing to stay there as well, did any of you agree with the presidents assessment that if he acted on that recommendation that he would ultimately have to send tens of thousands more u.s. service members to afghanistan, tha...

Happened next. once president biden made the decision to have u.s. forces leave the country, who designed the evacuation? >> well, senator, again, i wont address what i advised -- the advice i gave to the president. i would just say in his calculus this was not risk free and the taliban, as weve said earlier in this hearing, were committed to recommencing their operations gen our forces. his assessment was in order to sustain that and continue to do things that benefitted the afghans, that would...

At one point we had a number of advisers down to fairly low levels. as we began to lift the numbers of advisers there and scaled back on the people we had interfacing with the afghans on a daily basis, we began to lose that fingertip feel. it continued to erode and the smaller we got. >> it wasnt just at the end. it was an endemic problem for ooem over a decade. thats my final question. what are we actually doing to learn from the conclusion of these military operations, particularly from a stra...

Mission in afghanistan after 20 years. it took guts and was the right thing to do and should have been earlier. a virginia service member whose wife is expecting said to me recently irges so glad my baby is not being born into a country at war. some will point out that u.s. troops are still deployed, still in harms way, still carrying out limited military strikes around the world. but to the families of those who have been deployed over and over again into iraq and afghanistan over the course of...

And taliban that didnt even include the afghan government? i old like to introduce the agreement for the record. >> without objection. >> even the best fighting force may give in if they have no confidence in their leadership. third, the lightning collapse may show we wanted things for afghan that es that afghan leadership did not want for themselves. we celebrated gains in plemt and womens education and assumed afghans would fight to preserve those gains rather than allow the taliban to take ov...

0 >> thank you, senator. youre right, the tempo upped significantly, the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engage the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troop, and further stiffen their defenses. to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military, and this created ...

0ne blast happened close to the airports abbey gate on the other close to the nearby baron hotel. the hotel had been used by some western nations as a staging point for evacuation since the airlift began. 0ur afghanistan correspondent secunder kermani gave us this update in the past hour. details still emerging on this, but from what we understand, there was at least one explosion close to the abbey gate entrance to the airport. both british and american as well as other international troops had...

Is the moment that this happens. unfortunately, these kind of attacks happen in afghanistan, have been happening in kabul, but we are all focusing it at the moment because they are trying to pull out those last troops and the last civilians. a final quick vote for now, which is you have been so many times over the last years to afghanistan, reporting on the situation there. we now have a situation where we are on the brink of international forces leaving and yet you have the potential for a leav...