it another way. when you had the government of afghanistan, the leader of that government get into a plane and taking off and going to another country, when you saw the significant collapse of the afghan troops we had trained, up to 300,000 of them, just leaving their equipment and taking off, that was -- that's what happened. that's simply what happened. >> we've all seen the pictures. we've seen hundreds of people packed into a c-17. >> that was five days ago. >> what did you think when you first saw those pictures? >> what i thought is we have to gain control of this, we have to move this more quickly, we have to move in a way in which we can take control of that airport, and we did. >> you don't think this could have been handled better in any way? no mistakes? >> no.