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Greater risk if we stayed past the 31st in my professional opinion. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator kaine, please. ? thank you, mr. chair. to the witnesses, i want to return to a point that senator wicker made. i informed a dod witness about ten days ago that we would expect an answer to the question of how many americans are still in afghanistan and that we would not appreciate an answer that that was deferred to state. i'm going to ask the question during my second round of questions after lunch and with the number of staff who are here in this room and in the ante room we ought to be...

September. i know there's american citizens there, but they would have been at greater risk had we stayed past the 31st, in our professional opinion. >> thank you. >> senator kaine. >> i want to return to a point that senator wicker made. i'm going to ask the question during my second round of questions after lunch and with the number of staff here in this room we ought to be able to get an answer. if we can't, it will suggest to the committee -- and i don't think you want to suggest this to the committee -- that you don't want to be responsive to that question or that you don't talk to the st...

They would have been at greater risk had we stayed past the 31st in our professional opinion. >> thank you. >> senator cain, please. >> to the witnesses i want to return to a moint that senator wicker made. i informed a d.o.d. witness 10 days ago we would expect an answer to the question of how many americans are still in afghanistan. and that we would not appreciate an answer that that was deferred to state. i'm going to ask the question during my second round of questions after lunch and with the number of staff who are here in this room and in the ante room we ought to be able to get an ans...

0 why wasn't action taken to secure the kabul airport or retake bagram then? >> thank you, senator. you're right, the tempo had picked up significantly, yet the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie routinely engaged the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and further stiffen their defenses, to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military and this created further probl...

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...