and general milley emphasized that the collapse of the government and the afghan security forces could go a lot faster than anybody anticipates. so the president had to embrace all of that and still go forward and make this decision which turned out to be a calamity because now we have a terrorist organization running a country in southern asia and it will be an epicenter for growth of terrorism for sure. pete: how often is it that you get on the record military officials so quickly after something like this and they are now acknowledging it was a strategic failure, in fact, milley going to be say it ended in defeat. to say hear from prominent leaders this quickly after something, does that usually get this kind of glimpse? >> well, i think the reach why it's happened so rapidly and the congress wanted to have hearings and we were supporting these hearings on fox because we were not getting the straight information out of the administration. because it was such a debacle and fiasco and it's hurt america's credibility.