efforts, and with you, general mckenzie, what are your own thoughts about the speed of the collapse of the military and civilian government? senator, i believe the collapse of the military government is completely linked. i believe probably the primary accelerant, i will take the military side first, lowering morale and efficiency of the afghan military is what they saw coming on the heels of the dell hall agreement with what they believe was forced upon them so i think that had a negative effect. plus, we get closer to the date that we are leaving, and we are going to apply a system of the best port will make partial remedies from their perspective to continue the maintenance of not only the main force, the conventional force on the ground but really the high priority, and as i ve noted before we had an over and horizon solution to that. it wasn t our cryptic solution
0 about 100 americans and that figure doesn t change. we need a real accounting for how many people, big difference between 100 and 4000. my biggest takeaway, we have no counter terrorism strategy and milley and mckenzie testifyod this, mckenzie said he is not confident we can prevent al qaeda or isis. harris: i am rushing, it is top of the hour, kayleigh and emily, everybody on outnumbered, quick one for us as we ark wait the panel to reconvene. thanks for watching fox news. our coverage continues on america reports. sandra: the senate armed services adjourning for a break, set to resume 30 minutes from now. the nation s top military leaders facing tough questioning on capitol hill for the first time since the chaotic exit from afghanistan. hello and welcome, everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. john: i m john robert necessary washington. lloyd austin, and general mark milley and general frank mckenzie all testifying today before the senate armed everybodies iss committee
also between the ukrainian side, this current interim government there, and the russians,el as well. so kerry and lavrov had their pull-aside earlier and now a more formal sit-down. and what we re hearing, the goal is to get the ukrainians at the table so all the parties are there and they re discussing the way out. the off-ramp. what s going to satisfy russia s concerns, what s going to deescalate this crisis. meanwhile, while they re taking this diplomatic track, they are amping up the pressure from the financial side and on the military side. on the military side first, you have more u.s. aircraft going to the baltic states. that s to the north of ukraine bordering russia, nato allies. you have an air wing that s been in poland just to the west of ukraine, also a nato ally being extended. and later in the week, you re going to have a u.s. ship go into the black sea, previously scheduled. but again, sort of a pincer movement, showing the american commitment to that area, showing stre