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0 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 withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but 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 when the taliban was dimin...

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

Concerning national security. >> trace: i want to go back to what you said, and contention for a lot of people but how critical do you think giving up the air base was for this entire mission? >> it was really disastrous decision because try to rent these operations out of the extremely exposed kabul airport in this populous city has been a security nightmare. if we had three runways the kabul only has one, we could get more people in and out. we could do it in a way that would be much safer. this terrible risk to the troops to guard the airport and to let people in and out. words about the ma...

Want to see a president of the united states. i think it's something that over the decades the american people have come quite rightly to expect that the commander in chief, if he'll send troops into harm's way. hopefully it will be a she who has that responsibility. but if a president is going to send troops into harm's way, as commander in chief, they need to demonstrate they are willing and able to go visit them. it's always a security nightmare. the secret service and the u.s. military go to extraordinary lengths to protect any president of the united states when they travel, especially wh...

Members of congress believe it, too. >> well, here's the thing, everything other than core visceral tribalism has been boiled away. that's what this is. let's set aside for a second the fact that what hillary clinton was accused of doing with a private, unsecured email is like a little anthill compared to the empire state building of thif operational security nightmare. but what is plain from all of this testimony is, we know the answer -- he did it. all of this evidence, this huge accumulation of evidence from highly credible witnesses over and over and over shows us that what we saw initiall...