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Monday morning quarterbacking, but i think we should learn from situations even as we develop and change. does he have an important point? should bagram have been closed seeing what has unfolded at the one remaining open airport there? >> with 2500 troops -- >> and 6,000 more in. but respectfully, now you have to send more in. >> yes, that is correct. but if you want to keep bagram open, which is a very, very large base, you're going to have to have several thousand troops just to keep that one base open. the reality was that the american drawdown was underway. and that drawdown made it imposs...

And within the kabul airport. there is a big question and that is why did they not keep bagram open with multiple runways with all of the facilities of a u.s. operation going on there. during the press conference yesterday we heard from mark milley and blade austin and here is what secretary austin said. i want your response on the other side. >> we will continue to coordinate and deconflict with the taliban and make sure that those folks, those people that need to get to the airfield have the right to credentials to ensure passage and the taliban will -- has been checking those credentials an...

So whatever the plan was before that, and there was a well laid out plan for the u.s. military to withdraw, leaving some 2500 troops there and centered around the kabul airport. the reality is nobody expected a total collapse and immediate total collapse of the afghan government. now what are we going to do from here and the president is quite correct with what he said, chaos ensued as people desperately tried to get out of town. >> but know, the instability in the country and part of the reason why the u.s. has been there for 20 years backing up those troops, you have colleagues in congress l...

Learned from 9/11 it's that terrorists take advantage of ungoverned space to plot and plan attacks against us and if we don't have a military capability, a finishing capability and intelligence assets in place to detect and preempt those threats, they will be visited on our shores. and i'm concerned that we're pulling out of afghanistan precipitously. we're planning to provide $4 billion in security assistance to the afghan government. without any oversight. without actually being there. i think that if we kept bagram open with 2500, 3,000 troops we would have retained counter terrorism capabi...