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On behalf of the political leaders around the world, marc? >> great entry on this, bill. listen, the fear is the biggest problem as youve already been covering. were always afraid of the unknown and what we dont know and we always jump to worst-case scenarios. the media and leaders do that. what do we know? we know this seems to spread easily, ill tell you that. in south africa they went from 2% to 9% in a week testing positive. only 2,000 cases a day but predominantly omicron. which implies it ...

Get? >> it can get a lot worse. certainly not getting better the shortage of containers in the right place at the right time. there is a shortage of truck drivers to take it from the port to wherever got to go. the bottom line is its i objectflationary. because when you have a shortage of goods, demand is strong, the price goes up. you are already seeing inflation running at about 5% rate that could get worse as we approach christmas. by all means, order now. because there are supply chain probl...

The worlds biggest businesses by revenue. however, its also chinas most indebted developer and disclosed financial challenges in recent weeks. north korea has reopened communications with south korea after cutting ties back in 2020. south koreas unification ministry confirms the north responded on a hotline early on monday morning. a communications link between the two countries militaries has also now been restored. north korean leader kim jong-un vowing to re-establish hotlines with the sout...

>> so the president followed the advice in executing the withdrawal. as we already established the seeds for our failure in afghanistan were planted many, many years ago. let me ask you one more question, secretary austin. knowing what you know now, if we had stayed in afghanistan for another year, would it have made a fundamental difference? >> again, it depends on what size you remain in at and what your objectives are. there are a range of possibilities but if you stayed there at a force post...

Seems to me there would have been a process to convey general millers recommendation to the president. can you share the process and who conveyed general millers recommendation and was that recommendation delivered to both president trump at the time and also to president biden? >> there is a process for delivering recommendations from commanders in the field. i was part of that process. while i have been very clear that i wont give you my recommendation i have given you my view i think you can ...

Resistance to the taliban. we did not adequately plan for the possibility of a real kol ps. we need to explore processes to understand why we were unrealistic and how to correct that going forward. the most important part of the question is why military we trained for 20 years at a cost of 800 plus billion collapsed so quickly? i can think of three reasons after i put them on the table i would like each of you beginning with general mckenzie to address the question. we can do it when we come bac...

An american citizen left behind in afghanistan, the military is going to stay until we get them out. general milley, was that statement -- did that statement turn out to be true or untrue by the president? >> i think that was the intent but we gave him a recommendation on the 25th of august to terminate the mission. >> bill: the at the same time was untrue. let me ask another question. the president around the same time said al qaeda was gone from afghanistan. told the american people that. was ...

The firtion of the eight forts that processed afghanistan and i visited afghans, troops and ngos. the competent and compassionate service on the american side and the deep gratitude among afghans made a deep impression on me. we should do all we can to make the transition to a safe life in america as productive as possible. my chief criticism and question why did the afghan security forces and government collapse so quickly and why do d the u.s. so overestimated their capacity. the second questi...

Military leaders and demoralized the piece agreement. did it deepen a culture of corruption that long predated our involvement. the best fighting force may give in. the lightning collapse may show we wanted things for afghans that afghan leadership did not want for themselves. we celebrated gains in public health and womens education and assumed that afghans would fight to preserve those gains rather than allow the taliban to take over. in other words, we thought we knew what afghans wanted and ...

Lapsing. this gets to the overestimation, i think the overly optimistic assessment. even as late as july you are still encouraging the afghan special forces, you are expecting the ghani government to remain, but that was not the case. in december of 2019 the "washington post" reported the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the afghan army and police could ever fend off or defeat the taliban on their own. so general milley, you noted there are some specific mil...