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The president, but i will give you my honest opinion. and my honest opinion and view shaped my recommendation. i recommend that we maintain 2,500 troops in afghanistan. and i also recommended earlier in the fall of 2020, that we maintain 4,500 at that time. those were my personal views. i also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the afghan military forces, and eventually, the afghan government. >> i understand that. and general milley, i assume you agree with that in terms of the recommendation of 2,500? >> what i said in my opening statemen...

More democrats have expressed concerns about the size of the bill. >> bill: are you saying they are going for it or it's not going to work? >> well, i'm not certain it is going to work because their margin is so slim in the house. if they lose three democrats in the house who vote with republicans the 3.5 trillion bill goes down. they've already had one democrat a member of the budget committee. that's only part of the house, who voted against the bill and said i don't want to send it to the floor for a vote. do you think peters of california having done that in the budget committee will turn ...

Longer to get more people out? so let me take each in turn. retaining bagram would have meant putting 5,000 u.s. troops in harm's way to operate and defend it. it would have contributed little to the mission that we've been assigned and that was to protect and defend the embassy which was some 30 miles away. that distance from kabul rendered bagram of little value in the evacuation. staying at bagram for counter terrorism purposes meant staying at war in afghanistan, something the president made clear he would not do. as for over the horizon operations, when we use that term we refer po to* as...

>> bill: they had a 79 seat majority. >> dana: here they only have eight. a big difference. president obama much more popular at the time they passed obamacare at 52% than joe biden is at 43%. nancy pelosi had to tell the progressives we're moving forward with infrastructure. we need to get a win on the board and you won't get a vote on the reconciliation bill. >> bill: senate democratic advantage in 2008 was 14 in the senate. today 1. the reason it's one kamala harris breaks ties. it's 50/50 and the reason why we did the math the way we did there. >> dana: mexican officials say a massive cara...

The mistakes made by the u.s. military during the past 20 years. republicans see this as an opportunity to hit president biden for essentially handing afghanistan over to the taliban. the same terrorist organization that the u.s. spent a trillion dollars and nearly 3,000 american lives to crush after 9/11. both parties will press the administration not only for afghan translators, efforts to rescue them and other vulnerable afghans are continuing but the state department is now in the lead. it is notable the first of two armed services hearings today and tomorrow begin in the senate which tend...