commitment that we made more than a decade ago. in the last thing that i would say is that president biden is laser focused on accomplishing the core national security objectives of the united states. and when it comes to afghanistan, that was getting bin laden, destroying al qaeda. he believes that it was time for our troops to come home. >> you described a kind of choice that the president -- either save the folks, the allies in afghanistan, the folks that helped the united states for two decades, or sacrifice more americans. i think the question out there on capitol hill and around washington and elsewhere, wasn't there another choice? wasn't there a way he could have ended -- president biden could have ended the war the way that he wanted to so that americans don't sacrifice for their lives for this war, but at the same