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Capability? what happened there? i had an op-ed with ambassador crocker of the new york times in may, warning the administration that if you'reni going to not leave the light footprint, if you're not going to leave a residual force, at least start evacuating american citizens, uathe interpreters, and establih this intelligence capability. they failed on all three counts and now we're in a far more dangerous situation. maria: so and diswrows be clear for our -- and just to be clear for our audience, isr, intelligence strategic reconnaissance, is that right, that means we don't have any of it, w...

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...

Opening monologue, none of them have offered to take responsibility for 20 years ever failure, 20 years ever lies and 20 years now that were walking away from weaker than we started. at this point, no one is going to be responsible for this. and i don't think anyone misses the fact that they did this on purpose. biden made this deal by choice. he had already paid the taliban before with obama for boberg dal. no one should forget that they knew they could take him in a deal. they took him for grounding the afghan air force, shutting down bagram. and giving them a clear path to kabul. now we are...

We're talking about a country of 38 million people, a very small force in place that could accomplish a lot for counterterrorism purposes. we've seen that in places like syria and iraq, what a force of just 1,000 or 2,000 of our people can do. >> they keep talking about over the horizon, intelligence and counterterrorism, but it would take drones hours to get there from qatar, and so then they've wasted half the mission just going back and forth. wouldn't it have been better to keep bagram and to keep some force on the ground? >> well, there are several reasons why it would have been better to...

To keep some small, very install footprint there. but we did not. true, there is an over-the-horizon capability, but it is not a quick and easy substitute for having an actual presence there, a small presence there on the ground. i understand the desire to get out, andrea, after 20 years. but getting out doesn't necessarily mean removing every single member of the united states military from that place. as you know, we have our military in small forces stationed at a number of places around the world. >> and we also removed the military con tractors by shutting down bagram, the people who kept...