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Have worked with us. we're going to continue to work on this and again, one of my major directates focused on this and will work with the committee on this. if you have further requirements. thanks for your support in this regard. >> thank you. i know each of us probably have folks who contacted our office seeking help and verifying employer as contractor issue not just under dod, but with state. talk about mark feariks. military operations have ended, mr. mark is being held hostage in afghanistan. he was abducted in kabul, january 31st of last year, and been held captive too long, it is indic...

Sharp clarity how deep the divisions were. >> sandra: here is chairman milley saying the enemy controls kabul. watch. >> outcomes like this are not determined in the last five days, last 20 days or last year for that matter. how comes like this, outcome that is a strategic failure issue the enemy is in charge in kabul. >> sandra: that we know today, martha, right? >> strategic failure, the enemy is in charge in kabul and we watchd that play out with great frustration. it was interesting, i think tommy tuberville said can the military defeat any force on the face of the earth essentially? the a...

Beginning one september if we stay past the 31st using military sources. >> you use that term, that's a descriptive phrase but we are talking about potentially hundreds of american lives, are we not? >> well, when we -- for us we were specifically talking casualties killed and wounded and our estimate, my estimate of the time, this is 25 august we are talking about, is if we go to war with the taliban on the 1st of september -- there were 56 check points and 6,000 held in kabul at that time, who would have to clear kabul and receives it by graham, the 36 miles of road between bagram in kabul t...

The fall of 2020, maintain 4500 at that time, my personal views. i have a view withdrawal of the forces would lead to collapse of the afghan military forces and eventually the afghan government. >> jennifer: general mckenzie said he recommended 4500 troops stay in afghanistan, that is not what president biden told four days after kabul fell. >> no one told your military advisors, no, keep 2500 troops, been a stable situation for the lasts 16r8 years we can do that and continue to do that. >> no one said that to me that i can recall. >> jennifer: all three withins said their recommendations and...

Doing the work that the united states government would have done if it had maintained a presence there. it had none and that is why at mizor, and kabul it was doing that work. i'm concerned despite the looming crisis in the evacuation, we were unprepared and number of members of this committee went to the white house in the spring, asked for a plan, a strategy and none was forthcoming. i'm concerned we'll repeat that mistake as we work to ark void a humanitarian crisis during refugee and that will be a huge