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The sacrifices that they and their families make in any theater of war and make every day for us. but our exit from afghanistan was a disaster, and the missteps that are already outline of scrimmaged had consequences that struck close to home. as a nebraskan, corporal page was one of the 13 killed in action. and we should not forget we have policy discussions here today, but let us remember the human sacrifice. we also left american citizens behind. general milley, in your written testimony you state a withdrawal would increase risks of regional instability, the security of pakistan and its nu...

That was more my line of questioning. >> bret: yeah. what do you say when democrats push back and say it's the president's decision. they call this a bold decision. even if it was in the face of his military advisers choosing something different. because we had to get out of this 20-year war and we had to get our troops home one way or another. how do you respond to that? >> i respond by saying we can disagree on if we should have ever been in afghanistan. we can disagree on the withdrawal in setting a date on that. but the american people have seen how wrong his decision is. this isn't a bold...

0 there's no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan which was our core original mission. and everyone who served in that war should be proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when the ambassador signed the doha agreement lton 29 february 2020 the united states had 12,600 troops with 8,000 nato and 10,500 contractors. ...

An Omaha man was one of the 13 service members killed in Afghanistan Thursday. Daegan Page, 23, was a US Marine and went to Millard South High School.

Marine Cpl. Daegan Page was helping protect the Kabul, Afghanistan airport when he was killed by a suicide bomber.