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What i heard. first of all, prior to the taliban providing perimeter security there was no security and tens of thousands of afghan people in the airport. we did not know who these people were. it wasn't only people we invited in. >> we controlled the airport. not the city. >> we had tens of thousands of people in kabul airport. the reports we were getting on the ground is many didn't -- had no form of i.d. whatsoever. when i went to fort mccoy i asked the commanding general again every contingency planned for. asked the commanding general when did you first find out your mission would be as a...

Security, there was no security and basically tens of thousands of afghanis flooded into the kabul airport, correct? >> there was security around the airport established -- >> but we did not know who the people were. we didn't know they were special immigrant visa controllers. >> we control the city -- >> so we had tens of thousands of people in the airport. reports on ground was many had no form of i.d. whatsoever. when i went to fort mccoy, i asked the commanding general, every contingency, when did you first find out that your mission would be as an intake facility for the afghanistan refug...

I heard. prior to the taliban taking over security, there was no security, and tens of thousands of afghans pour into the airport, right? we did not know who these people were? it was not people invited in and special visa holders -- >> we controlled the airport. >> we had tens of thousands of people in kabul airport. the reports we were getting on the ground were many did not have a form of id whatsoever. when i went to fort mccoy, i asked the commanding general, when did you first find out your mission would be an intake facility for the afghan refugees, and he said ten days ago. i asked, do...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we've talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had a chance to do it wh...

0 i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had a chance to do it when the taliban was dimin...