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Is just a very straight forward question and tom cotton wrote a letter reading conspicuously you reportedly didn't attend the exercise in may or sent your top aide but a third ranking official. where were you on may 8th, 2021 at this high-level meeting to discuss the withdrawal from afghanistan? so laura, do you think it's a question that he needs to answer? where was he on that day? >> i think that he have answers all the questions. friction between the defense and state department is generations old. a day ending in why they disagree about something. frankly what we need to focus on is the 2...

Potentially taliban. as each day went forward and that risk increased, we stood to have aircraft shot down. we stood to have people injured on -- additional people injured on the airfield and so as we weighed those risks -- >> mr. secretary, i need to have this completed. and in fact, i'll be sending you questions for the record and i really want to know how many americans have been left behind. and so we'll get to that. but i will be providing questions for the record. but i sadly believe that american families today are at a greater risk of murderous attacks at home than ever before. you tal...

And as each day went forward as that risk increased we stood to have aircraft shot down and stood to have people injured -- additional people injured on the airfield. as we weighed those risks. >> mr. secretary i need to have this completed and i will send you questions for the record and i really want to know how many americans have been left behind and so we'll get that. but i will be providing question for the record but i sadly believe that american families today are at a greater risk of attacks at home than ever before. you talked about attacks at the airport. no, they're coming here. th...

0 during this process, the views of all of the joint chiefs of staff, all of us, the centcom commander, general mckenzie, general miller, and myself were all given serious consideration by the administration. we provided a broad range of options and our assessment of their potential outcomes. we couched that in cost, benefit, risk-to-force, risk-to-mission. all of that was evaluated against the national security objectives of the united states. on 14 april, the president of the united states, president biden, announced his decision, and the u.s. military received a change of mission, to retrog...

And that's inside any interagency partners that you have. secretary austin, can i get your commitment they will work with general milley and his team to get that to us both as quickly as possible and without unnecessary classification? >> yes, senator. >> thank you. terry austin, on may 8th you conducted with the pentagon what is known as a rehearsal of concept drill, also called a rock drill. is that correct? >> correct. and that's a significant drawing from afghanistan. and it's been reported that you attended and general milley attended, jake sullivan attended, bill burns attended, is that ...