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Government had around or other financial inducements the united states had or financial institutions could offer. we'll be probing those very questions. >> martha: what would be the line of question you'd take with general milley and general austin before i let you go? >> so with the secretary and the chairman, i'd like to know what were their recommendations and when did they make those recommendations to the president and how did he react. let's take a simple case that is a very easy question to answer. why was bagram closed, what did our military recommend and what did the president do? i f...

Women, the children, as well as the human rights activists and others, the people who have been in education, in the orchestra, in other taliban-banned activities, they've got targets on their back. we're not even talking about getting them out. it seems to me the fundamental issue is closing bagram -- no matter what they say, closing bagram, because that broke the will, the air cover that the afghan defense force, criticizing the afghan defense force. leon panetta and others saying they lost 70,000 people. they were real fighters. once they saw bagram closed, why wouldn't you flip sides if th...

I think we can point to 9/11 as either we're not aware of the events that are likely to unfold or we don't do our job making sure people are aware of that. general milley's comments about he didn't see any estimates about the country collapsing in 11 days makes for a nice sound bite but it's rather disingenuous. the estimates going back for some years noted that under the conditions we have seen over the past few months -- not weeks -- would lead to a rapid collapse of the government and fighting forces which could occur in weeks or in fact days. that clock was hardly 11 days. the president wa...