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Senators put out a statement and said was a deal. now, senator manchin appears to be saying that those senators were not telling the truth. i don't know what -- they put out a statement, so obviously there is something wrong. if we do have a vote, then we'll vote it down and we'll continue the negotiations so that we can actually deliver the entirety of the president's agenda. >> we'll keep on top of this story, of course. it is going to be a very busy day in washington. now, the u.s. defense secretary is shining more light on the collapse of the afghanistan government that caught so many of...

Of the other conditions. alex marquart, cnn, washington. military officials from china and the u.s. held frank and in-depth discussions in annual talks between the two nations. the pentagon stresses it is part of the biden's efforts to maintain lines of communication with china and avoid competition between two nuclear powers. well, north korea's leader says he's willing to reopen communication lines with south korea. during his speech at the legislative assembly monday, kim jong-un condemned the military buildup with the united states. he slammed the quotas hostile policies of the u.s., c...

>> general milley, i assume you agree with that in terms of 2,500? >> i do agree with that. >> top military advisers were against withdrawal 2,500 troops. >> that wasn't true. >> your military advisers didn't tell you we should keep 2,500 troops, it's been a stable situation the last five years, we should do that? >> no, no one said that to me that i can recall. >> reporter: white house press secretary jen psaki said there were a range of viewpoints presented to biden and that keeping 2,500 troops would have meant sending more reinforcements. now with the taliban ruling afghanistan, general mi...

Country's fall to the taliban. top pentagon brass did, however, contradict mr. biden on one critical strategic point. we get more on all of this from cnn's alex marquart. >> reporter: good morning, laura and christine. the u.s. military's most senior leadership in charge of the war in afghanistan faced tough questions from a senate committee. secretary of defense lloyd austin, chairman of joint chiefs of staff and frank mackenzie told senators the collapse of the afghan army and the afghan government in 11 days was a surprise. intelligence reports, they said, indicated that was likely in the c...

This just in. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff defending conversations he had with china in the final months of the trump presidency. general mark milley telling the associated press the calls which were intended to assure china the united states was not planning an attack were, quote, perfectly within the duties and responsibilities of his job. >> cnn senior national security correspondent alex marquart joins us now. alex, i've been speaking to the pentagon as well. they make the point there were regular conversation between u.s. military officials and their counterparts expressly fo...