Jspeak of the white house red to listen to warnings about the situation on the ground. As the saying goes, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. And fail, they did. To the families here today and two to the American People i say i will not rest until i get to the bottom of this tragedy. You deserve answers. The American People deserve answers. There is no military leader, we have lost troops and combat who have this feeling so this is personal to be. This is culpability in this attack lies in Policy Decisions that created the environment of august 2021 kabul. John powerful testimony from the two generals who ran President Bidens chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan an event that defined his first term in office and theearing is right now on a capitol hill. Sandra the president meanwhile thousands of miles away about the land in nevada on a Campaign Swing asking americans to give him four more years. John john roberts in washington. Sandra good to be with you im sandra smith in new york this is america reports, President Biden has maintained that everything there went according to plan in afghanistan, but as we know Tens Of Thousands of allies were left behind and a Suicide Bomber killed 13 u. S. Service members at the kabul airport. Their families are still demanding answers. John one of those killed was Sergeant Taylor hoover, who serve the marines several decades on his third tour in afghanistan, his father will join us with reaction to todays testimony but first well go back to the hearing, smith in new jersey as the question the generals. In gaza where we can discuss the incredible difficulties of Urban Warfare and how the top expert on Urban Warfare at west point has said israel has done at least a good of job as any other military in military stomach minimizing civilian casualties given the difficulties of Urban Warfare. Instead, we have what appeared a highly politicized hearing trying to blame biden. And this hearing began with the title bidens strategic failure, its my understanding our witnesses refused to touch testify with that title. In any case they should have. We retitled the hearing but we havent repurposed it. It continues to be what is sized. But a highly partisan hearing should not be held if you are in the party that made most of the mistakes. Let us lets put this in context. We had a real dispute as to whether we should lead to 2500 or so american servicemen or perhaps this decade or the following decade. A lot of the foreign policies established argued for that but trump promised the American People every single american soldier would be out. From that point we had no bargaining position. That is why the chief negotiator said it was wellknown by 2018, by the end of 2018, that we are hellbent to get every person out so what agreement did we enter into in d supposedly buy the bet negotiator in the world, its an agreement that says it is okay for the taliban to treat 12yearold girls like sex slaves, nothing prevents the taliban from killing people who are part of the lgbt community, no one prevents them from killing people who convert from islam to christianity, all they are needing to do is to talk to the government, then they assume total power and we could do nothing about it because we promised the American People that absolutely every soldier would be out and of course trump promised to have them back by christmas of 2020. The Trump Administration lost 59 of our servicemen, 152 of our contractors accomplishing nothing, we started in 2020 and we could have surrendered in 2017. But perhaps the most extreme part partisanship has arrived when so many members of this committee have attacked President Biden supposedly for not bringing back the 85 billion i think its more like 8 million of equipment we left behind. Now, this equipment was in the hands of afghans who had plenty of use for it. They could keep it for their own defense, they could sell it to the taliban, they did not choose to bring it back to us and return it, so i will ask General Milley, was there a way for us to go all around afghanistan and to demand the return of our equipment . This was assuming i realize at the time we hoped the Afghan Armed Forces would use that to resist the taliban but if we had realized they were going to cave immediately, could we have taken that equipment away from all of these afghans with no casu casualties . No, of course not. Would have incurred a very substantial casualties if we had done what so many on the other side of the aisle would suggest and somehow get back our equipment . How does our withdrawal from afghanistan compared to our withdrawal actually i have another question. Biden came in in january of 2021, was there a comprehensive plan at that time to both withdraw because that was the promise that trump made to American People without drawing stomach withdrawing in an organized way was their complete plan ready to go at that time . Can i go back, two points, as i recall and i think it is laid out in the report the rg for afghanistan about 80 some odd billion dollars worth of military aid total, thats everything from food, building bears, uniforms and boots to include equipment over 20 years. I think is about 7. 2 billion of Military Equipment, u. S. Manufactured Military Equipment with the Afghan Security forces. That is afghan owned equipment, not American Equipment. Every piece of American Equipment that the American Military owned came out with us with scott miller or he destroyed it onsite. And that is a fact. So the idea at john this attack on bi biden recognizes mr. Wilson south carolina. Thank you mr. Chairman and i asked for unanimous consent to submit two reports from the george w. Bush institute of February 2024 the captured state on human cost and on corruption. To order. Thank you, chairman and we appreciate your service. But we just have to learn from what has occurred the appeasement in afghanistan. The Biden Decision to appease is the worst foreign polity, policy decision i believe in the United States that led directly to the encouragement of dictators who are ruling by gun to invade democracies of rule of law. We saw that on february 22nd, 2022 what were criminal putin was in the ukraine, we saw in 2023 when the regime into ron and their puppets of hamas invaded israel, we see it today as the Worlds LargestMilitary Buildup is being conducted by the Chinese Communist party to threaten taiwan. The Global War On Terrorism continues and indeed with open borders of the American Families have never been at greater risk of attack. And i especially appreciate the military families who are here today as a 31 year veteran of the 218th Infantry Brigade i visited four times with our personnel with our Troops Serving in afghanistan and i saw them served with their afghan brothers just as you did. And it do to encouragement by my wife i am particularly grateful of my oldest son, alan, who received a cab, my second son eight dr. In baghdad and my third served in the Southern Border and also served in egypt and my youngest son served under your command a year in afghanistan. To me, the Biden Decision that led to the 13 deaths of the persons at abi gate, the Service Members just inexcusable. And i actually felt assured generals knowing your comforts and capability and a pseudograduate but i am very concerned that you were blamed on August 26th 2021 by mr. Biden, he specifically said that the 13 murdered, the withdrawal of forces was a decision as determined by the military and he said he had letters that indicated that you had said there should be an immediate appeasement. I sent a letter that day to the president asking for copies of the letters in every couple of months i would send another request, it has not been provided. So there are no letters. So is the responsibility of the president s United States, and his decision resulted in what occurred of putting American Families at risk. With that the Doha Agreement, each of you was there a violation it was conditions based and where their violations by the taliban of the agreement . I will let joe mckenzie give the specifics but yes it violated each part from the time they sign the agreement all the way to the end. Yes, they were in violation. They did not renounce al qaeda, they did not do afghan to afghan negotiations, there is a whole series of conditions in the Doha Agreement they didnt do. That is correct, every condition except the one narrow condition about attacks on u. S. Coalition forces. In particular, actually, they stepped up intentional attacks on Afghan Forces because we agreed to withdrawal substance of air combat during this time and they took advantage of that opportunity. And i appreciate that President Donald Trump has indicated it was conditions based. The conditions were violated and that would lead to his view of maintaining the bug rum base, what is your position . My position on bagram led to my position now that we shouldve held at 2,500 u. S. Forces that would allow afghans to stay in the fight you can maintain a viable base at bagram and it would be protecting American Families and we still have a president making bad decisions which we had seven weeks ago for Young Americans were killed Army Reservist from georgia and this was a decision of the president , mr. Biden, who did not follow through on trying to stop these attacks on our troop via the puppets of iran. And we lost three Service Members and over 40 were injured. The president needs to take this seriously, we are in a conflict existential of our country, thank you. Gentlemen yields, chairman recognizes. Thank you, chairman milley and General Mckenzie for your service then and for coming voluntarily to testify and provide really Important Information to the committee and the gold star families and i join you in console and sows for the gold star families in that we cannot necessarily repay but we are trying our best to get answers for you and i want to extend my condolences to the over 2400 other gold star families who were not able to join us today. Whose families also made the ultimate sacrifice over the 20 years of this war. My criticisms of the withdrawal the missteps and problems are well documented, there were certainly issues that have to be addressed and i have been very clear about that. I have endeavored to get answers with my colleagues, but i also want to provide some really important context which is ending wars is never easy. And ending wars is never clean and in fact as you all know better than me retrograde operations withdrawal operations its one of the hardest and most Dangerous Things that we ask our military to do to provide that, General Milley used it that the Admin Discretion entered into with the taliban required john we will take a quick pause here after more testimony and more questioning, the two generals, mckenzie and milley, and sandra we have a couple of very, very interesting guests i had to give us their take on not only what we have heard of the hearing here but on the situation coming out of Afghanistan August of 2021. Sandra as you are hearing from this congressman and others they say they are here for the gold star families who are still searching for answers. When it comes to this chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan here we will ask a gold star father, taylor hoovers father Daniel Hoover who will respond and react to what he has heard in that hearing room so far. 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Sandra the hearing is ongoing on capitol hill as the Military Leaders that continue to take questions from lawmakers over the chaotic exit from afghanistan, right now as we get back into the briefing but first bring in mike doody, ultimate xander Rice Foundation founder and darren cooper, father of Fallen MarineStaff SergeantDarren Taylor hoover. Darren, to first. This was said by General Milley in his testimony to the gold star family, listen here. I am committed and i will honor that commitment. To get you the answers, to get you the truth and i will personally, and everyone else as well honoring your sacrifice and the sacrifice of your loved ones. Sandra darren, whats your reaction to what youve heard and that hearing room . Its also all the too lay. Yes, we are searching for those answers and want those answers and will take them anyway that we can but it has been two and a half years stonewalling and not giving information. And it is its frustrating it has taken this long for him to step up and say he wants to give us all the information and help us search for those answers. Hes got the answers. Hes got some. He is just not willing to go forward and give us all the answers we need. But i will hold him to a. Its. John we will see if they do, mike doody to you because you are a sniper in the military and that question about Sergeant Parlor bargains and marine sniper at the place when the bomb went off just came up. General frank mck mckenzie was asked regarding certain embargoes and whether he had the authorization to pull the trigger, he remains a mystery to this day why would he request permission to take out that Suicide Bomber and it went up the Chain Of Command and never came back down . Thats a Great Question and i think the American People deserve that answer because you need positive identification and then you have to put up to the higherups. They will either give you the go or nogo on that. I think what we have here is the difference between weak and strong leadership. Weak leadership holds zero accountability and pins on their subordinates, strong leadership will take extreme ownership and accountability for their actions and or interactions. Sandra darren i see it clearly agreed agreed with that statement. Absolutely i do, 100 . If i remember directly in the beginning of this, the subordinates were to do their job, we would still have that Command Structure and im sorry, but if it is not being passed up the chain or it is being passed up the chain and nothing is coming back down, then there is a severe lack of accountability. And at the time, all of this was going on suppose