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Defer to my colleagues at the pentagon who are more expert in this than i am -- much of that equipment was made inoperable. other pieces of equipment will become inoperable because there is no ability on the part of the taliban to maintain it. none of it to the best of my knowledge poses a strategic threat to us or any of afghanistan's neighbors. >> so we have an oversight letter we would like a response on that. let's just quick talk about the decision to close down bagram. the president says this was unanimously decided by the military. isn't it true that the president decided what the troop...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we've talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had a chance to do it wh...

Differently? absolutely. yes. as always. foremost for me is for the state department to evaluate how it could better evacuate americans when events unravelled quickly. and i look forward to hearing from the secretary how the state department intends to complete its evacuation of the 100 to 200 americans remaining in afghanistan who want to come home as well as for evacuating those afghans who worked alongside us during the past 20 years. however, it is important to separate fair criticism from criticism that isn't made in good faith and divorced from the realities on the ground in afghanistan....

History will be 90% is good enough. i think that that's shameful and the american people should not feel safer when they have a president of the united states willing to take 10% of us and leave us. >> bill: i've heard nothing but amazing things about general miller. never met him myself. do you know how many marines or soldiers he was requesting to keep bagram, to keep the embassy and the airport in kabul operating? >> i don't. but i can tell you for sure he warned not to close bagram. it was not the right thing to do. his plan, i'm sure, included the exact number that he felt he needed in or...

You could see terrorism coming out of there in 12, 24, 36 months. >> bill: that answer is yes. what do you make of that answer? >> look, i know general milley and highly disappointed he is being very political. that's an answer to cover yourself for later now that those warnings are happening. i have also heard him say general miller in charge of bagram gave advice to shut down bagram. i can tell you that's not true. i know that very firsthand information. general miller did not want to close bagram but general milley said that he did. i know that general miller made those stark warnings to ja...