Page 13 - Stephanopoulos News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

So that is probably what people looked at. and here you have these three generals and finally after we pound them for a while, they say, hey, wait a minute, we said they needed to keep 2500 troops. so biden was wrong in his interview with stephanopoulos, he was wrong in saying nobody said august 31st wouldn't work. but, maria, he wanted to take that victory lap on september 11th so badly that he was willing to sacrifice our relationship with our nato allies, with our partners in the region, the afghan government. thirteen troops lost their lives and thousands -- we don't even know the number y...

Looked at. and here you have these three generals and finally after we pound them for a while, they say, hey, wait a minute, we said they needed to keep 2500 troops. so biden was wrong in his interview with stephanopoulos, he was wrong in saying nobody said august 31st wouldn't work. but, maria, he wanted to take that victory lap on september 11th so badly that he was willing to sacrifice our relationship with our nato allies, with our partners in the region, the afghan government. thirteen troops lost their lives and thousands -- we don't even know the number yet of americans, of afghan allie...

Listen and say what you want about president trump, clearly he wanted to get out. we all wanted to get out. at the end of the day he listened to the advice he was given and left soldiers, a base and a functioning afghan army to keep a lid on terrorism. president biden didn't listen. i don't know who he is listening to. a lot of this smells like susan rice and john kerry who drove the policy in iraq that led to the isis caliphate attacks across europe and the united states. america's far left base. what is so upsetting to me it is not a matter of if but when we're going to have to go back to de...

Conversations of the president or other white house officials, and that he would then turn around and say to us, oh, i can't tell you what i've told or recommended to president biden. >> it does seem odd, only he can answer those questions about his motivation or exactly what he did or didn't say so you'll let us know hopefully if he reports to you after reading the book whether he thinks it's an accurate portrayal. in the meantime i want to play what biden told stephanopoulos a couple of months ago and what the general had to say about this idea of leaving troops behind. hear those exchanges....

The fall of '20 and it remained consistent throughout, that we should keep a steady state of 2,50 # 0 and it could bounce up to 3,500. maybe something like that. >> and defense secretary austin then confirmed president biden did receive those recommendations. so, how does the white house clear this up? >> it's very mysterious and obviously they are trying to spin around it. and there was a little bit of ambiguity in president biden's comments to george stephanopoulos where, at first he said that the advisers were split and then he said nobody had ever given me that advice. i honestly don't kno...