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In planning and executing this withdrawal. as we've established, the seeds for our failure in afghanistan were planted many, many years ago. laegs you one more question, secretary austin. knowing what you know now, if we had stayed in afghanistan for another year, would it have made a fundamental difference? >> again, its depends on what size ru remain in at and what your objectives are. there are a range of possibilities but if you stayed there at a posture of 2,500 certainly you'd be in a fight with the taliban. and you'd have to reinforce yourself. >> i appreciate your looking at it as a fi...

0 >> thank you, senator. you're right, the tempo upped significantly, the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engage the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troop, and further stiffen their defenses. to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military, and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. >> mr. secretary, i don't mean to interrupt you bu...

Stated. they don't understand what advantage there is to the governor to not protect kids as they go back to school, not to say look, science says this we know masks work on preventing transmission of covid and the delta variant. and kids under 12 can't get vaccinated yet. so he puts our most vulnerable children frankly in harms way if he he doesn't allow local officialing, school districts across the state to require masks as the unvaccinated children go back to school. >> you give me some home in that you talk about the fact that some republican claegs in other counties are working with you....

What do you say to your democratic claegs jeff van drew and collin pederson the two democrats voting against the inquiry yesterday. >> in fairness, neither one of the gentlemen has been in the depositions. so unlike myself -- i have actually -- as a member of a committee and subcommittee chair being in almost basically all of the -- all of the depositions, having the evidence provided, i have a lot of facts, unlike mr. peterson and others. i'm hopeful that when the evidence is presented to them that they -- any will support the process. >> if they did have more information you're confident tha...

98% of politicians gentlemejerk private. trump is an incredibly sweet and gracious person in private, and in public sometimes he does act like a jerk, and that's very different than most applications. >> it's like saying most people won't meet him privately. >> if they did, they would know what i mean. the president's laegs move on the russia probe is raising flags. witnesses in the potential case against him, we'll get into that next. y, you every talk to anyboy about your money? yeah, i got some financial guidance a while ago. how'd that go? he kept spelling my name with an 'i' but it's br...