congressman, thanks for joining us. you have said that president biden made the proper decisions along the way. given the terrorist attack yesterday, do -- do you stand by that statement? do you really think there wasn't a better, more organized way to exit? >> there probably was but it wasn't going to happen. nobody anticipated the complete collapse, disappearance of the afghan government. it just simply was gone, and then all of the plans that had been made were not going to be executable. and a shift was put in place and which we are now working through one of the most extraordinary evacuation airlifts ever in the history of america or the military. what? 105,000 in the last ten days from beginning to this moment. um -- so, sure. if the afghan government had not collapsed, we would not be in this mess.