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Out posts to getting them into quitting. we were seeing afghan out posts beginning to quit. they went from surrounding the small -- this is not the same time on july 8th when president biden was giving the nigh kwraef predictions. you could see they were splintering the remains of any sort of resistance. weeks before the fall of kabul, you could see the taliban was on the verge and headed towards something they had not done before, isolate kabul from the north and cutting off all supply routes. we knew weeks before that we were headed for a taliban-control of the north, and all of the traditio...

Someplace and there will always be voiced and important we listen to all of them talking about exclusively the worst case, some best case, some in between. here is what i can say in this setting, and we can take this up as well in other settings. back in february, the assessment of the overall assessment of the community was that after a complete u.s. military withdrawal that could potentially in the worst case scenario lead to the taliban capturing kabul within a year or two. so that's back in february. that was more or less where things stood in the winter and into the spring. by july and yo...

Population that has reached the united states? let me just start with my thanks to the state department, to the employees in kabul and qatar and the d.c. based task force that worked with the evacuation and & many americans i heard from. former military and folks who served in afghanistan. former diplomats eager to help. i look forward to continuing to coordinate with you and with agencies of our government, advocacy groups and other partners on resettlement efforts. i'm glad jack martell has been asked to step forward and welcome u.s. launch a broad multi-faith bipartisan national organizatio...

That we listen to all of them who may be talking about exclusively the worst case, some best case, some in between. here is what i could say in this setting. and we could take this up as well in other settings. back in february, the assessment of the overall assessment of the community was that after a complete u.s. military withdrawal, that could potentially in the worst case scenario lead to the taliban capturing kabul within a year or two. so that is back in february. and that was more or less where things stood in the winter and into the spring. by july, and you're exactly right, that the ...

Order to do the drawdown from afghanistan in a safe and orderly way, it needed three to four months. that's why we pushed to move beyond may 1st and get to the end of august, early september. second, to your point, an important and good one, our expectation was that beyond august 31st, beyond the military drawdown, the government, the security forces were going to remain in control of kabul, of the major cities, our embassy was fully planned to remain up and running. we were leaving about 600 military behind to make sure that we could secure the embassy. so that it would continue to operate. w...