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Chart. dozens of veterans organizations to meet with president biden and convey his concerns. they were unsuccessful. meanwhile, people are working behind the scenes through and around the government to help people because the government will not -- this administration does not care about americans trapped. some say as many as 10,000 still need to be out. but they dont have a master list. that allows them to say it was the americans fault for not register with the beaments. , which by the way, y...

Life? brian: we had 2300 there and that was too much for president biden. because they screwed this up so royally. they are up to 5800. think how much money this is costing us flying to these third countries let alone to military bases with our citizens, with our allies. with people that have to yet be screened. keep in mind, right now, we have to push that deadline back, there is no difference. what people tell you in the cia theyre extremely worried about isis k and suicide attempts. so you ha...

It was the last base to be turned over to the afghans. even as recently as three weeks ago before we actually had to conduct a noncombatant evacuation, the leaders ran a table top exercise on what it would be like to run an effective operation out of hamid karzai international airport. its not without challenges, but were doing that now. that focus is on making sure that we can get as many people out as possible. and jen, the numbers are showing that it is working. nobody is taking it for grante...

And i would be reticent to get more specific than that. but since the 14th we believe we have been able to evacuate several thousand americans. >> very quickly lastly so the last table top exercise was about three weeks ago. >> it was about three weeks ago. it was certainly before kabul fell. this is something -- i talked about this before, this was something that the pentagon had been thinking about for a long time. i mean, as far back as late april when we held a rehearsal of concept exercise ...

Thousand americans. >> very quickly, the last table top exercise for the new operation was about three weeks ago? >> it was about three weeks ago and it was certainly before kabul fell. it is something that i talked about before. this is something the pentagon had been thinking about for a long time, as far back as late april when we held a rehearsal exercise here looking at the retro grade and how that would parse out. apart of that conversation was the potential for noncombatant evacuation ope...

Have views and opinions about this. it was closed down as part of the retro grade. it was always supposed to be closed down as part of the retro grade. it was the last base to be turned over to the afghans. and even as recently as three weeks ago, before we actually had to conduct an noncombatant evacuation the leaders ran a table top exercise on what it would be like to run an effective operation out of hamid karzai international and were running that play. its not without its challenges for su...

For a noncombatant evacuation, bret. in fact, planning began for that as far back as early may. now, we didnt know exactly what the conditions were going to be like. and as you heard the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff say yesterday, there was nothing that we had seen that would indicate a total collapse of the government in 11 days. and as fast as it was. but, even two weeks ago, bret, we did a table top exercise at the pentagon to further refine what ended up us executing noncombatant ou...

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Against whether or not it helps address these questions of miscalculation. >> we also know that the administration, because of the turnover from john kelly from homeland security to becoming chief of staff and the delay in getting him replaced, that they have not had a table top exercise. they have not worked out the internal system at the principals level at the nsc. >> thats apparently the case. again, this kind of episode showed a lack of coordination. certainly, my understanding is our milit...

Principles of joint fighting as we go forward. the secretary and i spent an entire day with the three four and three-star leadership doing a full day of table top exercise on war-fighting in space. so were moving forward. >> would it take away from the air force, the pdsa and the a-11 and the war-fighting con-ops under strap. are you concerned about that? >> theres a lot of things in that language that is conditional and a lot of caveats in there. i think we want to look at the language really c...