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But with that effort, chaos during the evacuation, ultimately leading to the death of 13 u.s. service members in an attack outside the kabul airport. blinken saying the united states had no choice but to withdraw by bidens august 31st deadline under extreme pressure from the taliban. >> it made very clear if we move past that deadline, it would resume the attacks that it stopped on our forces and on our allies and partners. >> reporter: republicans slamming blinkens defense. >> you should resign...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of ...

0 i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wa...

0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons ...

Afghanistan was the foreign minister in 2001. and when we said to him, surrender osama bin laden or suffer the consequences, he told us to pound sand. the interior minister has a $10 million bounty by the united states on his head for having participated in the 2006 attack in kabul that killed six americans. his uncle, another member of the network, is the refugee minister which you allows him to provide cover for foreign terrorists to come into afghanistan and receive documents and he has $5 mi...

People and their children. biden said he wanted to end the war not just overseas but here at home. >> we must end this uncivil war. conservative versus liberal. urban versus rural. steve: just has his abject surrender to the taliban did not stop and restart the endless war in afghanistan ending out the uncivil war but reviving it that the southern border the humanitarian crisis for the security crisis and a crime crisis and inflation crisis and to bring the country to gather in every single thin...

Also for agreeing to stay until every member has been heard. i believe every member has a right to ask questions on such an important topic. over the last several weeks, we witnessed afghanistan rapidly fall to the taliban. in the chaotic aftermath that followed. this did not have to happen. but the president refused to listen to his own generals, and the intelligence community, who warned him precisely what would happen when we withdrew. this was an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. i n...

Been handled better, others ask questions about the chaotic evacuation and those left behind. but they also criticised president trump and argued that it was an issue of a 20 year failure of war, notjust issue of a 20 year failure of war, not just the issue of a 20 year failure of war, notjust the failure issue of a 20 year failure of war, not just the failure of one administration. republicans by and large rejected it — one of them did say that both the biden and the trump administrations wer...

Also for agreeing to stay until every member has been heard. i believe every member has a right to ask questions on such an important topic. over the last several weeks, we witnessed afghanistan rapidly fall to the taliban and the chaotic aftermath that followed. this did not have to happen, but the president refused to listen to his own generals, and the intelligence community who warned him precisely what would happen when we withdrew. this was an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. i ne...

And to allow humanitarian assistance to get to people who so desperately need it. that will be the basis upon which we engage any taliban government. whether it is the central government or one that remains in the days and weeks ahead. >> i yield to questions. >> mr. secretary, in the weeks before the fall of kabul, the surrender two the taliban, we were on the phone with high ranking officials at state. we have americans that couldnt get out. we had interpreters that couldnt get through the per...