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Always less than what allegedly credibly is being threatened behind closed doors. that's number one. number two, i think they have to take on this narrative. ukraine is not threatening russia. and the fact that he's asking for security guarantees and we're reacting to that, i think just on the public relations piece, we need to be much more definitive and say this is completely concocted by putin. this crisis is invented by him. and we need to underscore that this narrative is not acceptable. so i think both of these things in tandem need to happen next week. >> yeah. i looked at the satellite...

BAGHDAD, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Iraq on Friday denied reports that the United States had extended the period of its military presence in Iraq beyond Dec. 31, 2021.

Confidential, but i would say that as we worked our way through the process here, we laid out all potential consequences that could result from any course of action that we took and we were clear right about that. so there were inputs coming -- >> with regard to iraq, that is my question, mr. secretary. >> well, certainly then we get back to specific conversation that i would have had. but clear that i have a history with iraq. it is clear i've learned lessons to be learned from iraq. >> was it your feeling we had seen this movie before? >> well, there are certainly some of the same kinds of t...

0 retrograde our equipment and that was accomplished. general miller executed the plan in accordance with the plan. a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow the government to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security sources. so it was, the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there and in conjunction with that plan, we were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy. that was the plan, senator. >> but you didn't address the issue, you made, it was your plan, you acknowledged it was you...

Discussion here. it starts first of all with the withdrawal decision itself. i believe the congress will want to get on the record. at the united states military leadership which is secretary of defense, chairman of joint chiefs and the combatant commander of centcom, where they oppose that withdrawal decision and put some light on what their considerations were. that's number one. i think also the president has continuously brought up as a factor in that withdrawal decision that the choice that he had was to bring thousands of combat troops back into afghanistan, taking american casualties si...