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>> general milley, i can only conclude that your advice about staying in afghanistan was rejected. i'm shocked to learn that your advice wasn't sought until august 25th on staying past the august 31 deadline. i understand that you're the principal military adviser, but you don't decide, the president decides, but if all this is true, general milley, why haven't you resigned? >> senator, as a senior military officer, resigning is a really serious thing. it's political act if i'm resigning in protest. my job is to provide advice. my statutory responsibility is to provide legal advice or best mil...

Base. >> i have one final question. general milley, i can only conclude that your advice about staying in afghanistan was rejected. i'm shocked to learn that your advice wasn't sought until august 25th. i understand that you're the principal military advisor. if all this is true, why haven't you resigned? >> senator, as a senior military officer, resigning is a really serious thing. it's a political act if i'm resigning in protest. my job is to provide legal advice or best military advice to the president. that's my legal requirement. that's what the law is. the president doesn't have to agree...

Sighted on. >> one final questions. general milley i can only conclude that your advice about staying in afghanistan was rejected. i'm shocked to learn that your advice wasn't sought until august 25th on staying past the august 31 deadline. i understand that you are the principal military advisor and that you advise, you don't decide, the president decides. if all this is true, general milley. why haven't you resigned? >> senator, as a senior military officer, resigning is a really serious thing, a political act is to resign in protest. my statutory responsibility is to provide best military a...

Consequential matter. let me move onto another recommendation they're reported to have made. it was the unanimous recommendation of the joint chiefs that we not maintain a military presence beyond august 31st. when was that unanimous recommendation sought and presented to the president? >> are you talking about the 31 august? >> yes. >> on 25 august i was asked to make an assessment and provide best military advice. >> august 25th. >> correct. >> kabul fell on august 15th. >> that is correct. >> you were not asked before august 25th? >> on august 25th i was asked to provide an assessment on wh...

Other operations like this. >> as we always do, senator, we're going to take a hard look at ourselves in terms of what we did over the last 20 years, what worked, what didn't work and we're going to learn from those lessons and make sure we incorporate that into our planning and our strategic assessment going forward. >> thank you. >> senator kramer, please? >> thank you for your service and being here and god bless the men and women under your command. general mckenzie, is it true that u.s. forced hat the isis-k under surveillance before august 25th and could have struck them before the deadl...