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In your assessment? >> it's going to be more difficult, no question. the question is how effective would a strategy be of keeping troops in afghanistan that were vulnerable to attack. i believe that we can contain the terrorist threat. it's not easy. it's not easy in yemen, it's not easy in iraq or libya or somalia or any of these other places. i think we can contain that terrorist threat. i think it is an open question what the taliban do now. they are not the taliban of 2001, if in only one respect, they want to try to not be attacked again. in 2001 they were oblivious to that risk. i don't ...

>> the politics that feeds anger and resentment towards those who aren't like us. and starting turning away from democratic principles in favor of tribalism and might makes right. >> he also talked, of course, about starting his political career right there in chicago. thanks so much for watching. it's time for anderson. two of the nation's top-military commanders thought about keeping troops in afghanistan. what the commander in chief did, instead, and what he told the public about the advice he got. as taliban forces took over the country. john berman here, in for anderson. that was a big ...

About keeping troops. no one said that to me that i can recall. the republicans are saying the president lied to the american people. >> and two of them testified they recommended keeping 2,500 troops there. what i imagine the white house would point to is that caveat, that i can recall. however, i don't think that's going to be a solid defense is why would you not be able to recall something that's so critical advice over how you're conducting this exit from afghanistan and what the top advice that you're getting from your top military aides is, and so when general milley said there as a foll...

All intents and purposes left afghanistan in mid-july when general miller stepped down. it was about a month later before the taliban took kabul and effectively took over that country, but we will hear questions about the intelligence, about how the afghan security forces were not able to hold back the taliban and exactly what happened there, including some deals that the afghans may have made with the taliban in the months leading up to the u.s. withdrawal. one other thing, you know, that we should expect is they will get questions about what their advice was to president biden leading up to ...

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...