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minutes. i had the sour police in texas a gun and set fire to an apartment complex and then shot and killed three residents as they ran out of the burning building. the suspect is also dead. we will have the latest on the investigation. the jerusalem post reports the israeli prime minister is pushing for a meeting with president biden about the u.s. possibly rejoining and trouble getting to the present when he's on vacation. lucas tomlinson live at the white house with more. and israel's equipment of the cia will travel to washington next week hearing a message asking the white house...

Unable to stand on their own against taliban forces. secretary austin, general milley, general mckenzie, you have each led troops in combat in afghanistan, commanded at the theater level and advised our nation's top leaders on our afghanistan strategy. you have played significant roles throughout this war and i hope that you are forthcoming in your answers today. to begin, i would ask that you provide an accounting of the intelligence and other key assessments that factored into your judgments about the viability of the afghan government and afghan forces and how those trends changed over time...

Afghans, the success of afghan debate garnered huge level of support. pakistan has back the taliban, created the taliban as many other nations see for years. this is a very complex problem that the us, uk, western eyes failed to deal with for many years. it is notjust the events of the last few weeks is a? no, not at all. there's a reason why biden keeps using the term forever war. that is conceivably what it might�*ve turned into had the us not decided to somewhat abruptly remove, evacuate their troops. they were actually left with an extremely difficult choice to make once they had gone in...

>> they're wrong because we never had control in afghanistan. we didn't have it 20 days ago. we did not have it two decades ago. and the longer that this war would have continued, it would have just been putting more blood and treasure where we were not going to gain any more than we already had. one of the main things that i think has to happen moving forward here is one, the diplomatic strategy that secretary blinken has talked about. an aggressive effort in coordination with our allies to get people out. but i'll tell you what i feel strongly we should not be doing, putting boots on the gro...

Arguments since the last obama administration that there was a need to pull out troops out of afghanistan. the former president had vowed to do that. this president has handled a little different late. how important is u.s. troop presence in afghanistan, till this day, when we hear that al qaeda is still trying to grow strong? >> the u.s. troop presence in countries like afghanistan is maintaining security. the u.s. has to ensure that its counterterrorism objectives can be met. we have to remember, it's always tempting -- and i understand the temptation after 18 years or so of fighting -- to b...