Mr. secretary you covered some of this in your opening remarks but i wanted to ask you a series of questions to level set for the committee. the situation you inherited. what was inside your control an outof your control and to look at the events of the last 30 to 40 days with that same lens, what was in your control and what was outside of your control. i think these are yes or no answers. some of it you have covered in your testimony but it is important to get it on the record. mr. secretary, if president biden had chosen to breach the agreement that president trump signed with the taliban, would the taliban have restarted attacks against u.s. troops and bases? yes. as you said in your opening testimony, by the time the administration took office the taliban was on the outskirts of several provincial capitols. if president biden chose to breach the agreement between president trump and the taliban would the taliban have begun ....