well as arms committee, senator, great to see you. before i get to your colleagues opening the door to massive tax increases and spending, that will be coming to us, i want to get your take on what's taking place in afghanistan this morning. we have breaking news, the taliban has entered the capital city of kabul. we have news that the president of afghanistan has now left the country and there's panic underway at the white house. the biden administration is now sending 5,000 troops to afghanistan. your reaction. senator: oh, maria, this is heartbreaking. it could have been avoided. the exit from afghanistan should have been conditions-base, it should have been based on the threat assessment. we know that president biden chose not to do it that way. he wanted to set a timeline and as the afghanys and the taliban, as the taliban has said all along, you may have the clocks,