close male relative accompany them, if the trip is longer than 45 miles. one kabul resident telling the bbc, the taliban captured our happiness from us. i have lost both my independence and happiness. joining us to discuss, republican congressman peter meijer from michigan, an army reservist who served in iraq and worked with aid organizations in afghanistan. he sits on the house homeland security and foreign affairs committee. good to see you as always. president biden just signed the national defense authorization act, the big pentagon spending bill that includes a multi-year independent afghanistan war commission to examine the war in afghanistan after the u.s. withdrawal. what do you hope to learn from this report? what do you want to know? >> i personally want to make sure that we never repeat those same mistakes when it comes to aligning our intelligence, defense, diplomatic and development communities. i think we saw over the course of that 20-year conflict, you know, 21-year wars being fought back to back to back, very