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bill: the billions in u.s. military equipment. the finest in the world that we left behind. some disabled. a lot of it now in the hands of the taliban. dana: today s hearing is expected to touch on the fate of afghan women. the taliban moving to erase decades of congress resuming public beatings, amputations and executions. bill: unknown numbers of americans and u.s. allies trapped in the afghanistan after the president made a promise to get them all out safely. dana: we ll speak to one of the lawmakers who will question the generals. first jennifer griffin who helped us walk our way through those six weeks is at the pentagon. this will be the first time, as you mentioned, that we ve heard under oath from general milley, defense secretary austin and the marine general frank mckenzie who led the withdrawal efforts. democrats are likely to used the senate armed services committee to question who lost afghanistan, looking back at ....
Against us. not a matter of if, but when. those are all areas we can look at his complete failures with regard to foreign policy. it is ripe for criticism and the fact that we have lives lost, republicans can and should and will use that against president biden and the democrats who have supported this withdrawal efforts in the midterm election and that is just one of many issues with regard to the failures of this administration. also, the economy and the increasing covid cases are many issues that will be front and center in 2022 because this president has not delivered on the promises that he made. we have to leave the conversation there. i figure maria your counterpoint is if the biden administration can get some of these huge spending bills passed to move forward on the economy and address climate change, then voters will potentially be not so concerned about withdrawal from afghanistan a year from now. again, we have to leave the conversation there ....
Pullout. one of the marines sadly who was killed in afghanistan was ohio native navy hospital corpsman max soviak from your great state. what are your thoughts on that and the thoughts of the ongoing withdrawal efforts? do you support joe biden s decision to pull out on the 31st of august? first of all, when i think of that young 22-year-old navy officer, it saddens me. when you listened to his mother who talked about this being a child who had dreamed, something he always wanted to do, so he gave his life or his life was taken in the battle of what he wanted to do. i do support the president. i think that this has been one of the most complicated issues of war that we ve ever had to deal with. but i think he has a plan. this is something that is not foreign to him. so we will keep moving ahead. ....
there aren t many other people who can call on the kind of experience he has for having that kind of bizarre sort of a suhey generous meeting. john, let me also just ask you about some reporting you and your colleagues published in the last hour or so. a democrat, congressman seth moulton and peter myer made an unauthorized trip to afghanistan. now, both of these congressmen are combat veterans. a spokesman for them says the point of the trip was to gather information about the withdrawal efforts to increase their ability to provide oversight as members of congress, but the criticism of them is just damning. i have to put this quote to you. one senior white house official telling you their trip is as moronic as selfish. they re taking seats away from americans and afghans so they can have another moment in front of the cameras. another diplomat telling you, ....
Have been killed within the last 24 hours, and both sides are accusing the other of violating the agreement. on the other side, syrian kurds have until tuesday to abandon a buffer zone on the turkey border. the president announced withdrawal efforts and a few days later, president erdogan took over the turkey border. reporter: the largest movement the syrian troops have taken. today it seems they began to coalesce on a base in a town in the east here. we saw one particular base, perhaps 200 vehicles gathering there. i understand in the houfrz ars days ahead, that convoy will ....