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Was there any -- the idea that you accept bad deal by trump, but you'll turn back other bad deals by trump? what was wrong with delaying six months? >> because we inherited a deadline negotiated by the previous administration. that deadline was may 1st. the idea that we could have maintained the status quo beyond may 1st if the president decided to stay i think is a fiction. here is what is likely to have happened had the president decided to do that. during the time from when the agreement was reached to may 1st, the taliban had stopped attacking our forces, stopped attacking nato forces. it ...

Was the original mission was over -- m that has been the whi house rationale and they feel -- they say that their hands were tied by donald trump's decision to get out on may 1st, that -- as secretary blinken is telling meet b the press today, that on may 2nd, we would have been embroiled in this brutal civil war and having to send thousands andha thousands of troops back in order to stop the taliban because they had said that they would startth fighting the day after the may 1st withdrawal that had been agreed to by the previous administration. whether that is true or not, whether we could ha...

And they say they had to live up to that because otherwise it would have been a bloody civil war on may 2nd, it's on joe biden's watch. he inherited this, but he's carrying out the withdrawal and critics say that he had some options. >> andrea, stay close. we will continue to cover this as it is happening. as you canis see on the screen the left of the tv we are seeing helicopter movement between the u.s. embassy and somewhere in the greenom zone, a secure arean baghdad and the baghdad airport. both of which are under taliban control. that's a chinook. it can carry about 30 troops on it. if o ...

With which this transpired. what many are calling, especially the republicans, a lack of add equation planning for the drawdown in the evacuation, as well as the fact that they are, of course, not blaming president trump, who made the commitment to may 1st, and the pushback from secretary blinken those on "meet the press" that on may 2nd. the taliban was going to be attacking if we did not signal we are going to meet the commitment, a call that president trump had actually invited the taliban to come to camp david before an earlier 9/11. that plan was quickly scrapped when it became so controv...

Blinken said today on nbc is that by may 2nd, there would have been an all-out war because the taliban had said their decision not to attack american troops was only until may 1st. so they're saying that on may 2nd, u.s. would have been coming under attack as well as the afghan troops, and that it would have been a bloody civil war and we would have had to surge forces in quickly. and that joe biden simply not prepared to do that. he made that very clear in his statement. yesterday from camp david he issued a statement saying four american presidents have been involved in this in 20 years, he'...