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Criticized withdrawal process that has left 13 u.s. service members dead and at least 100 american citizens and thousands of afghan allies who helped the u.s. trapped in afghanistan. president biden called the u.s. evacuation a, quote: extraordinary success. the president took responsibility for the operation during an address this afternoon at the white house. one day after the final u.s. service member left afghanistan. he says he is committed to getting the last americans home in a diplomatic way but one republican congressman a former green beret, says those americans and those afghan alli...

You were in the room for a lot of these conversations, i am disappointed in mark milley. with all due respect to his prior military service, he still a public servant and powerful one at that right now. he's seeming to imply affect the decision to abandon, which is actualizing that he went along with us. you remember him saying anything like that when you are working in the trump administration? >> no. when he was working for us, he was with the intelligence, he knew the posture al qaeda and isis posed in afghanistan during our withdrawal process and he knew command-and-control, that could not...

Works. you were in the room for a lot of these conversations, i am disappointed in mark milley. with all due respect to his prior military service, he still a public servant and powerful one at that right now. he's seeming to imply affect the decision to abandon, which is actualizing that he went along with us. you remember him saying anything like that when you are working in the trump administration? >> no. when he was working for us, he was with the intelligence, he knew the posture al qaeda and isis posed in afghanistan during our withdrawal process and he knew command-and-control, that co...

You were in the room for a lot of these conversations, i am disappointed in mark milley. with all due respect to his prior military service, he still a public servant and powerful one at that right now. he's seeming to imply affect the decision to abandon, which is actualizing that he went along with us. you remember him saying anything like that when you are working in the trump administration? >> no. when he was working for us, he was with the intelligence, he knew the posture al qaeda and isis posed in afghanistan during our withdrawal process and he knew command-and-control, that could not...

The airport? >> we have begun retrograding. >> reporter: can you say anything about the number who have left? >> no, i cannot. >> that's the pentagon acknowledging that the withdrawal process is starting. 5,400 troops there on the ground in kabul, and they're due to leave by tuesday. so that process is beginning. in the meantime, tens of thousands of afghans desperately trying to get out, including those who worked as interpreters, drivers and other jobs for the u.s. military. a question is looming over all of this, alex. how many more afghans could have been evacuated if the evacuation had st...