take a listen to what he had to say this morning. >> there was an agreement the forces would come out on day 1st, had we not begun that process, which is what the president did and the taliban saw, then we would have been back at war with the taliban and been back at war with tens of thousands of troops having to go in because the 2500 troops there and the air power would not have sufficed to deal with the situation as we see the hollowness of the afghan security forces and by the way from competitors around the world, there is nothing they would like to see more is us in afghanistan another 10, 20 years. it's not in the national interest. >> so blinken wasn't the only one cleaning up and defense secretary lloyd austin and chairman of the joint chiefs mark milly was briefing lawmakers, the house and senate this morning on what is happening in kabul. the very, very fast