degrees from harvard in, yale the administration also facing more questions about its military exits, and evacuation from afghanistan. for hours today, secretary of state blinken defended the withdrawal during the first congressional hearing. since u.s. forces pulled out. lawmakers from both parties have been critical of how the withdrawal carried out. during today's house foreign affairs hearing, republicans were particularly combative. this was an unmitigated disaster. of epic proportions. i never thought, in my lifetime. that i would see an unconditional surrender to the taliban. >> we were rate upon the taliban to be our security. that means we end up getting our military personnel personnel civilians killed. by relying on the taliban, they didn't provide very good security. we never should've relied upon them, let me move on. them >> we were not relying