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Pittsburgh police officers identified as having violated policy and procedure during the tasing and subsequent detention of a homeless man who died a day later in October have begun their initial disciplinary meetings with police administration. Multiple officers out of the eight identified in the executive summary of a Critical
Investigations. my next guest has called on the secretary of state to testify. it's good to have you on. i have been thinking about the different after action reports, the oversight they need to be conducting here. where do you begin? on one hand the withdrawal and focusing on this, yet a singular, a singular decision making process and how all of that went, but there is so many other reasons why we were in a place where our only options were bad, bad, and worse. so how do you go about a oversight investigation? >> i think that first we begin after all of our american citizens and sivs and thi...
Beyond that, i don't think anyone has the threshold right now to, you know, to be paying too much attention to the speeches. they want action. >> there is plenty of time, we've been told over and over again for after action reports and to talk about regrets later. but as you are reporting, you're literally in the middle of what is now a true humanitarian crisis on the outside of the airport walls and now it seems on the inside of the airport walls and the airfield where you are. i'm wondering how you think this ends? >> reporter: i mean, i really don't know because i had assumed, again as i he...
Secretary blinken saying that they believed the taliban would quickly take over soon after the august 31st deadline and that they were really concerned about evacuation and how that was going to go. you have no knowledge of that or that it was in intel reports? >> i certainly wouldn't talk about intel and i don't know anything about that cable. what i can tell you here at the pentagon certainly we were watching with alarm as district after district and then provincial capital after provincial capital began to fall to the taliban and we realized this was unfolding very, very quickly. i have not...
You can bet the issue of what is happening at kabul and the airport and the bedlam in and around there going on and on and disrupting thousands from even getting out of the country will come up. ahead of that, to jennifer griffin at the pentagon on where this stands right now. jennifer? >> neil, a somber briefing with very few answers. a defensive posture from the defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs that said now is not the time for after action reports or discussion of regrets. the picture that they painted was bleak and dependent on the taliban. the bottom line is afghans and ...