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Him. president biden inherited a forced presence in afghanistan of some 2,500 troops that was the lowest since 2001 he inherited a special immigrant visa program that had been starved of resources, and he inherited a deal struck between the previous administration and the taliban that called for the complete removal of all u.s. troops by may of 2021 or else the taliban, which had stopped its attacks while a deal was in place, would go back to war against the united states. the president's transition team asked to see plans for that removal. they asked to see plans for a security transition to ...

Withdrawal and evacuation was handled, and so there are still many questions after this presentation of this after action report. and again, this also contradicts, it looks like, the military's after action reports that came out about a year ago those were released, and what you saw there was military commanders extremely frustrated, feeling that there was disorganized, that elements of the state department were botching elements of the evacuation as well so i don't think this is going to resolve the discussion. one debate is whether the u.s. should have withdrawn. then there's this other deba...

To follow. they have some idea, but things change all the time with respect to scheduling. so my best evaluation and guess is that the prosecutors are sort of siloed. they're looking at their cases on their own merits, and they're just going to proceed as they normally would >> you know, tim, we've talked a lot about whether a trial or if the possibility comes to fruition that additional charges are brought, all of that will keep the media spotlight, right, on donald trump, but i wonder if you think that provides an opportunity for a republican to kind of take a page from what we see president...

In the region by mid summer in case they were ever needed throughout, president biden insisted that his team plan for worst-case scenarios such as the fall of kabul, even though the intelligence community's assessment when he was making the decision in early 2021 was that taliban advances would accelerate only after the withdrawal of u.s. forces. the president repeatedly requested assessments of the trajectory of the conflict from his military and his intelligence professionals no agency predicted a taliban takeover in nine days. no agency predicted the rapid fleeing of president ghani who had...

Was stark, either withdraw all our forces or resume fighting with the taliban he chose the former. but even in so doing, secured extra time to conduct that withdrawal stretching it out to august, and that's the second point worth making despite having his options curtailed, president biden led a deliberate, rigorous, and inclusive decision-making process that was responsive to facts on the ground. he focused keenly on the need for proper planning. in fact, president biden directed his top national security leaders to begin planning for a withdrawal even before he had made the final decision to...