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Tropical storm idaho has formed in the caribbean tonight, the ninth named storm of the season is forecasted to slam into the gulf coast this weekend as potentially a major hurricane. sunday march the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina's landfall. the chaotic u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan is drawing increasing criticism from veterans of the war on terror and that was before today's deadly bombings in kabul. let's bring in someone with a unique position to address the concerns of former military, former navy lieutenant commander and pilot, republican congress men from california, mike garc...

This is that the president decided early on that this was going to beautiful medic mission is that a military operation. he allowed the department of state to run this without support from the department of defense and secretary -- you can't hide it with that mind-set, you start think of things like i don't want too many troops on that airfield to secure it and hold it for long enough and i got a feeling as this president gave orders or gave a dictate that said basically hey, look, i don't want a certain number of troops in bagram and when that was communicated, the department of defense and t...

Because it was the most secure base that you could have. the most defendable, multi-runway airport, we could have removed thousands of people in there. i see the president is now saying we moved out 100,000 people in his press secretary just a few days ago said -- i think it was three days ago, we had moved out 11,000. so if we only moved out 11,000 in one day, i don't know how -- i mean, it's all most impossible with a number of aircraft that were going out that we could have moved 100,000 people out. >> shannon: we are going to talk about bagram a little bit more coming up and about how that...

Magnitude, but bagram is going to be one of the most causal factors in this as we look at the forensics. >> shannon: it feels like a bitter, devastating pill to swallow today with the loss of these service members and many, many other people, afghan civilians, dozens more wounded, so with that in mind, is it possible you think -- you talk about how this has been set up with the state department in more of a diplomatic effort, willis that administration potentially pivot? do you think that there are those close to the president or him watching how this is playing out with his own eyes who will ...

And steadily losing their u.s.-dependent capacity to function, the biden administration agreed there would be no turning back from the decision to pull out a matter how bad things got, u.s. commanders would have no military options. as somebody who knows firsthand how critical it is to have places to land or planes, to take off, what you make of this decision about bagram? >> this is the linchpin that caused things to fall apart. there's no doubt. there was a lot of errors made, the pulling out of military personnel before civilians and our afghan allies, leaving behind military equipment, sig...