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Questions about bagram air field and pointed out that having a major air base with 500 miles of iranian and chinese borders would be very strategic. i asked you about the feasibility of retaining bagram. i'm still waiting for a reply. i hope you do see today ignoring questions that might come up from civilian oversight sometimes backfires on you a little bit. you apologize for being late for your statement today. the hearing. but you got to understand the pattern here. i heard senator blackburn say about the book. you got to see how the midst of it looks to congress that you've had time to int...

0 to work, to come out of bagram. no way to keep bagram and go to effective zero in >> well, thinking of what we have -- may have gained or may have lost as we leave. we think about countering adversaries, so again, general mckenzie what is your assessment of the foreign influence in afghanistan, the wake of our - hosted what we called the conference. we all adversaries from filling the we talk about that region after the fall of afghanistan. generally what they want is they want assurance. they want to continue to have ties with the united states because they want alternatives to russia and t...

In other words, the i.c. hadn't reached that conclusion. i believe that we'll find as of july 8, the president misspoke. the president also said the likelihood there's going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. two days later on july 10, the taliban was reported to have 85% of the country. then on august 12, the "wall street journal" reported that on july 13 you received an urgent dips sent memo from 23 u.s. personnel in kabul warning the rapid collapse of afghanistan. your spokesman said that you read every memo sent to you from the descent...

0 are you negotiating with that taliban on the issue of legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or support. it starts with freedom of travel. we've been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again, which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week with american citizens on board. with regard to masari shareef. there's been charter flights there for some time that have not been ...

Accommodation of decrease in intelligence and in limited number of options going forward.— of options going forward. douglas london, of options going forward. douglas london. great _ of options going forward. douglas london, great to _ of options going forward. douglas london, great to get _ of options going forward. douglas london, great to get your - of options going forward. douglasj london, great to get your insight. thank you for coming on. so what about those who remained stranded in afghanistan? among those who were left behind are a number of school children and their parents from el...