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Confusion right now, fredricka. >> my goodness. chief ramsey back with us now. this really is a security nightmare, even though we are hearing from officials at the atlanta airport this was an accidental discharge and that no one has been injured. now you still have to coordinate all the people who are kind of stuck there, because even with nadia's family members, nobody can really leave. so how do officials kind of prioritize the needs here so that you don't have item percent flaring and you don't end up with another big problem? >> well, obviously, it's a challenge. there's no question about...

Be panic amongst the afghan people. could it be expected that troops and diplomats on the ground would have been able to prevent this panic? >> no. >> were 2500 or 5,000 troops to stop the afghan people from rushing to the airport and created this security nightmare, but was there any way for the limited number of personnel that were there to prevent individuals from rushing to the airport? >> no. they could control the airport as we did. they could establish a basic immediate perimeter around the airport as we did, but they couldn't control what happened beyond that perimeter. >> let's talk a...

Thousand u.s. troops and diplomats on the ground at the time would have been able to prevent this panic? >> no. >> much has been made about these dramatic heart breaking scenes at the airport. were 2500 or 5,000 troops enough to stop the afghan people from rushing to the airport? it created this security nightmare for you, but was there any way for the limited number of personnel there to prevent individuals from rushing to the airport? >> no. they could control the airport as we did. they could establish a basic immediate perimeter around the airport as we did, but they couldn't control what ...

Disintegrate it is understandable there would be panic among the afghan people. could it be expected a few thousand u.s. troops and diplomats would have been able to prevent the panic? >> no. >> much has been made by the dramatic scenes at the airport. 2500 or 5,000 troops enough to stop the afghan people from rushing to the airport to created the security nightmare for you? was there any way for the limited number of personnel that were there to prevent individuals from rushing to the airport? >> no, they could control the airport as we did. they could establish a basic immediate perimeter ar...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we've talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had a chance to do it wh...