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Embassy open, secure the embassy. transition that off to contractors, and then all of the military missions, money over the horizon fund. once those indicators started to fracture, they felt the government executed and implemented a neo plan for con -- contingencies. that is why those 6,000 troops could deploy as rapidly as they did. that was done with planning and that was done from an operational and tactical stand poupt. so you have a operational

0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didn't address the issue that you made -- if it was your plan, you acknowledge it was your plan and your plan said you would do all these things before we g...

That of course, but they probably will. they've kept their embassy open as has russia, which is a real indication of these ties. we've got to remember that senior leaders of the taliban went to the chinese city on july 28th. they held a meeting with the foreign minister, and we should know what was discussed because the concern here is that china has been providing financial support to the taliban in its campaign to take down the afghan government. the taliban paid a lot of money to the afghan military in the last four, five weeks, and the question is, where did they get that cash? and so thes...

>> why didn't we hold bagram to keep the isis terrorists locked up until we had this done upon we released these people before we started this. >> jesse: it's a jail break and the pentagon said we have a choice. we only had enough soldiers to keep bagram and the embassy open because biden did not plan for the exit. they chose the embassy and there was a jail break at bagram and we lost a great place to get our guys out. >> in donald trump was president he would have sent everyone to gitmo or blown that thing and buried them there. >> jesse: and biden is shifting the blame to the former preside...

Evidence to this effect. the taliban do want the americans out of there, but they also want a relationship with certainly western countries. it looks like they want embassies to stay open, maybe they want the u.s. to keep its embassy open. the u.s. hasn't made a decision one way or the other on that. there is this weird symbiotic relationship. from what we're seeing this week it's obviously related to the withdrawal, but there's also a sense they may have some relationship that will carry on after the last plane goes wheels up. >> evelyn, i worry i cut you off a moment ago. if there was a seco...