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Your previous segment. we're going to have to have congress exercising its oversight function, investigations into all of this coming from the woodward and costa book but this does not argue well for the ability of congressional committees to comport themselves in a way that augments, rather than subtracts further from public confidence and institutions. >> all right. george, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. and as i said, i hope everyone will get george's new book american happiness and discontent, thank you. >> glad to be with you. and next, the organizer of this weekend's rall...

Foreign relations committee, as we think about what happened here and as we think about the future in terms of foreign policy have to have that dimension before the committee. so i hope that the secretary will accept our invitation at a future date to come before the committee so we can get those perspectives. >> it sounds like you wish you had heard about the scheduling conflict sooner in the relief that he sent. if he doesn't come, would you rule out a subpoena? >> chuck, you know, i have always believed in the previous administration, in the administration before that and now that there is ...

I have to tell you, when you see all of this haphazard planning when it came to withdrawal, we didn't decide to withdraw at the last second, we have been preparing for this a year and a half. how did things like this end up so poorly? >> great question and one i'm sure we're going to be asking in the united states congress as part of the oversight function. as i said earlier, there's been mistakes made over the 20 years in afghanistan. i think starting with the bush administration in being distracted and not finishing the job in afghanistan by sending our troops into iraq. i think mistakes wer...

Democratic lawmakers aren't speaking out in the president's defense? >> i mean, i think you have heard from a lot of key democrats on capitol hill who will be chairing committee hearings starting next week. so there is clearly an opportunity here for congress to perform its oversight function of the administration, and even though they are loyal biden supporters, these democratic chairman and chair women, they are going to do their jobs in that way. they've made clear, and as jeff was saying, so many questions still linger about the execution that there's nothing that president biden is going ...

Failure? now this is a basic constitutional oversight function of congress. if this fails to act it will have hundred itself completely pointless other than being a socialist / and that the american people are voting to end these wars since 2008 we have been right the whole time it's obvious the afghan government is hopeless let's government is hopeless let's just get out 20 me now is an infantry for the platoon leader as a current candidate for the senate in a pennsylvani. shine you were there is biden making the rightin decision? >> yes. but it's important to add context. this is president t...