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Vietnam in 1975 and next to one of our blackhawk choppers leaving, pulling out of afghanistan of kabul. it says this is manifestly not saigon and but it certainly appears to be. what is their perspective on this? >> listen, this is definitely hurt our credibility, created a power vacuum in that region of the world. it has to hurt us. most importantly, i'm concerned about this becoming a terrorist haven again. we're going to lose valuable intelligence by not being there. this has cast doubt on america's credibility around the world. i was with joe lieberman yesterday. he said this is a day that...

And say here is what we are willing to do now, despite what we have seen happen. we should have been out of afghanistan ten years ago. we should not have kept changing the mission. we should not have kept sending american men and women into the battle when we knew the numbers that we were getting about the afghan forces were wildly, in many cases, inflated, so i think the american people were ready for this war to end. i think he made the right decision, but we have seen that administration after administration have struggled with this, have made mistakes, and hopefully now, we can take care o...

Daughter. thinking of them today, did the u.s. accomplish the post 9/11 mission? >> for the last 11 years, we've kept them safe, so i absolutely think we did accomplish the mission. the president's withdrawal in september 202021 comes almost 2 years to the day we lost americans in the plane attacks. the results were not predictable. it's not intelligence failure. everyone saw this coming. everyone predicted it. unfortunately we're seeing the results of it, and the likely result is the return of al qaeda and isis to this terrorist haven in afghanistan, unfortunately under taliban control. i wor...

This kind of international terrorist organization running afghanistan i think is a bit of a misconception. i don't -- i'm not privy to the intelligence or what the secretary said about isis or al qaeda reconstituting themselves. but afghanistan has not been for 20 years and people don't anticipate that it will be, a terrorist haven the way there are other places in the world that are terrorist havens, where, by the way, we don't have troops on ground. that's historically been the situation for us. is how we've tried to stop terrorism through the group, not through having boots on ground but th...

Going to do to prevent the possible fall of kabul in a very short period of time. the fact that this is converging on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 i think makes it -- this all the more profound as far as the 20 years of effort that was put into trying to bring afghanistan out of the terrorist haven that it was, and now with what seems to be a rush to exit this unfortunately is now, i think, raising more questions about the decision initially, but then the decisions that the biden administration has to make from here on. >> director brennan, let me show you what the president said just a few we...