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This committee that bagram was not necessarily tactically to the military's withdrawal plan. you dismissed concerns about the military -- you based it on the assessment the taliban had not taken major districts. yesterday you told senator black burn that one of the courses of action you provided the commander in chief was to keep the air base open. it sounded different than january 23rd. was it your professional military opinion and advice that we should abandon bagram air base, and if not, was this decision forced on you by the arbitrary troop cap of roughly 650? >> once the president's decis...

0 during this process, the views of all of the joint chiefs of staff, all of us, the centcom commander, general mckenzie, general miller, and myself were all given serious consideration by the administration. we provided a broad range of options and our assessment of their potential outcomes. we couched that in cost, benefit, risk-to-force, risk-to-mission. all of that was evaluated against the national security objectives of the united states. on 14 april, the president of the united states, president biden, announced his decision, and the u.s. military received a change of mission, to retrog...

Government had around or other financial inducements the united states had or financial institutions could offer. we'll be probing those very questions. >> martha: what would be the line of question you'd take with general milley and general austin before i let you go? >> so with the secretary and the chairman, i'd like to know what were their recommendations and when did they make those recommendations to the president and how did he react. let's take a simple case that is a very easy question to answer. why was bagram closed, what did our military recommend and what did the president do? i f...

Make it harder for anything you wanted to do to get done there. the other thing i hope i hear tonight is support for the unity government in kabul and addressing governance throughout the country. >> kimberly dozi reshger, what the president's announcement tonight tell us about his foreign policy? >> that he listens to his generals. from what i'm hearing he's likely to endorse the slight increase in troops with an open-ended commitment and a conditions-based withdrawal of u.s. troops. in other words, you have to get afghanistan to a certain point before you pull or draw down american troops. o...

But donald trump kept sending them back to the drawing board asking what will be different this time? how is this not groundhogg day. and what they explained to him, this is the anti-obama plan. obama put a deadline on it. we're not going to put a deadline on it. we'll make it condition based. when it's stable we'll draw down troops. so you don't give the taliban how long they have to wait until they just come back, which is what they did. they also sold him on the idea that they could do this more cheaply. in order to keep the troop numbers under the 8400 troop cap established by obama, that ...