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Differently now post afghanistan post this report? >> i think it's really important to separate the two, because first, we are not in the 20-year war with u.s. troops in ukraine. it's a very different circumstance. i would say we believe and view our relationship, both from the white house, from the diplomatic team and from the defense department as one where we are closely coordinating, healthy disagreements as there can be and the president certainly well comes them. and after action reports are very important because you can look at and make assessments about anything you would change movin...

Anything to report. i would point you to the department of defense. >> did the white house have the opportunity to review this particular report? >> internal discussions and internal reviews of any after action reports, i don't have any updates on assessments from here. >> among the criticisms from military commanders in the document, as late as early august of last year, the n.s.c. appeared to lack a sense of urgency planning for evacuation because it would signal we have failed. what's your reaction? >> i would say again earlier in the summer prepositioned u.s. forces, evacuation if needed o...

It? >> well, i know obviously our national security team as we said at the time was going to conduct after action reports as they would as it relates to the end of any conflict or any engagement of that sort. you know, we have always believed the end of the 20-year war was going to have significant challenges. we, as you know, and we talked about at the time through the summer, pressing our system hard whether we were meeting established trip wires at the embassy in kabul, and led the process and convened regular agency discussions and prepositioned u.s. forces to facilitate the scenario. we h...

Downtown or at least on the outskirts within hours. >> yes, the ukraine military will fight, but they are overmatched in numbers and sheer capabilities. john, they have no defense, really a guest russians airpower and the shoulder missiles, they don't have enough of those, they have no defense against russia's missiles, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and they have an adequate defense against a long-range artillery and their rocket artillery which is absolutely devastating. of the last time they dealt with them on the border they were -- their operational units were completely shut down b...

Pittsburgh city and public safety officials on Wednesday will announce the results of an internal investigation into the death of Jim Rogers following his arrest and detention last year. The press conference, announced shortly after 9 a.m., will be held at 2 p.m. by Mayor Ed Gainey and Public Safety