>> you play the tape. it's not hard. the president said as this was going on, he said quite clearly, it would not be chaotic. and now he is saying it was inevitable that it was going to be chaotic. okay. well, that doesn't really add up. one of those two things is not true. and i think that's unfortunate, because fundamentally, the president isn't wrong. in that when donald trump decided to negotiate with the taliban and cut out the afghan government, i mean, that put us in a terrible position. and also, it's become clear that the afghan government was unable to stand. i mean, we put 20 years, thousands of lives, trillions of dollars into this, and at the end of the day, the corruption, the tribalism, and the incompetency of the afghan government never got to the point where they had enough confidence to hold off the taliban. >> so the other aspect -- >> go ahead. sorry. >> i'm sorry. you tweet, you put out in july, you said we must protect the