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The august 61, my understanding that with scenarios for both the permissive and nonpermissive neo so for the august 6 tabletop, the statement was involved in that. coming out of that tabletop exercise, the department had an opinion adequate understanding as to the state departments plan and role to conduct vetting and processing of evacuees at hkia. >> i believe they did but i also urged state. i felt that by nature the department of defense can move very fast on issues like this. i felt like we were not completely lined with state. there are some things that they could do faster and i believe...

0 in the attack on the 26. >> in classified, i'd like to know that. i don't understand. i went to union public high school 1100. my math. 11,015,000 u.s. citizens. that leaves thousands, not hungry left -- not hundreds left. we have people calling us wanting to get out, u.s. citizens not allowed to get in the gate or kicked off the base are not allowed out. we have to get our folks home. i yield back. thank you. mr. chairman. >> general milley come i want to thank you for your 42 years of service, your principled commitment to civilian rule, for your commitment to military to military communic...

Assumed to be delivered by general miller? >> i believe it would be reasonable for the committee to assume that. >> and would general miller have been able to deliver that directly to the president or would someone else have had to have delivered that for him? >> i would leave it to general miller to express an opinion on that. we both had the opportunity to be in executive session with the president. i can't share anything beyond making that statement. >> thank you. secretary austin, this committee was briefed on the series of rehearsal concept drills that could arise. the worst case scenario...

0 retake bagram then? >> thank you, senator. you are right, the tempo had picked up significantly. the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engaged in after began leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and stiffen their defenses to no avail. and to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. >> mr. secretary i don...

Front of the capitol and pond in front of it. also arlington police, when in virginia, 25 agencies planning for this. capitol police responsible for protecting the capitol grounds and the protest area. d.c. police responsible for protecting the streets and surrounding neighborhoods. capitol police chief john manninger said they've been to believe tabletop exercises. he said there are threats coming in, but he cannot say how specific or how serious they are. >> it's tough to say whether they're credible or not. we don't know with any certainty. but what we do know is that this -- the chatter th...