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>> sir, i was present when that discussion occurred. >> mm-hmm. >> and i'm confident that the president heard all of the recommendations and listened to them very thoughtfully. >> so one of the recommendations that was made by the three of you would be the recommendation that was originally made my general miller's two weeks ago. >> during the august 18th interview on abc, george stepnopoulos asked president biden whether u.s. troops would stay beyond august 31st if there were still americans to evacuate. president biden responded, and this is a quote, if there's american citizens left, we're ...

On august 18th, the president said that none of his military advisors told him that he should keep u.s. forces in afghanistan. general milley, that was a false statement by the president of the united states, was it not? >> i didn't even see the statement to tell you the truth. >> i'm reading you a truthful statement. that was a false statement? >> i'm not -- look -- >> i don't have a lot of time. was that a false statement? >> i'm not going to categorize the statement of a president of the united states. >> general mckenzie, was that a false statement? the president said none of his commander...

Talk to the president about general miller's recommendation? >> sir, i was present when that discussion occurred. i'm confident that the president heard all the recommendations and listened to them very thoughtfully. >> one of the recommendations that was made by the three of you would be the recommendation that was made by general miller two weeks ago? during the august 18th interview on abc george stephanopolous asked president biden whether u.s. troops would stay beyond august 31st if there was still americans to evacuate. president biden responded, this is a quote, if there is american cit...

Differently is either fooling himself or trying to fool the rest of us. i believe president biden had it exactly right, withdrawing long overdue. the withdrawal was conducted in accordance of the advice of his military advisers who planned and executed every step of this withdrawal. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator warner. senator sullivan. >> thank you. gentlemen, this committee recognizes your constitutional duty is to follow the lawful orders of the president or resign if you don't agree with his decisions and policies like secretary mattis did. but i want to emphasize, you do...

0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didn't address the issue that you made -- if it was your plan, you acknowledge it was your plan and your plan said you would do all these things before we g...