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Warnings. do you believe that? >> i mean, i don't want to believe it. how could it be that he did not have access to that analysis? the job of the senior officials in that administration is to make sure the president gets best advice, best analysis, multiple options, and clearly that didn't happen. and anybody who had been in afghanistan, jim, knew this catastrophe was happening, because we set the conditions for it. we delivered psychological blow after psychological blow to the afghans, across two administrations. negotiating with the most heinous people on earth, the taliban, terrorist orga...

Evacuations that need to occur and they have been a stymying slow force at every turn and it all flows down from the fact that at the top, in the oval office with the president, there is no sense of urgency, there is no sense ever compassion or concern for those that were left behind and until that changes, we're going to continue to see the delayed drawn out and frankly deadly process that we've seen so far. >> i wonder if you agree with him? >> well, peter is a friend of mine and he's a fellow member of the honoring our promises working group after the decision to end our combat operations. ...

Messages to give up and surrender to paybeijing becausee united states will abandon them to. >> thanks. let me see if i can address all those questions. the regard to phone call and i'm not going to comment on leaked, purportedly leaked transcripts of phone calls. what the president said in that conversation is exactly what he was saying in public, and it's this. the issue is not the capacity at that point of the afghan government and the aftghan security forces the hold the country. it was their will and whether they had plan to do so. we were concerned they were not demonstrating that will o...

0 legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the sp entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban if they want to see any support and that include, it starts with freedom of travel. we have been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we're working on that every day. >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. secretary we requested such a classified briefing not too long ago. we welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing some time in the ...

Charge. and i think that leaves, clearly, a huge number of questions, not least for the women, the girls, the children, our journalists and any other member of the aftghan nation tht actually put their faith in the u.s. and international effort to bring them an end to the war with peace and universal rights. >> given how much time you've spent in afghanistan, time and time again, and saw what the taliban meant for women and girls there, i want to ask you about what it means now, because the -- as you rightly point out, this began under the trump administration with the doja agreement, which yo...