i will take that for the record. let me ask you this. do you believe you did enough chairman milley? >> i do. i think we provided the advice necessary at the time. yes. >> secretary austin? >> i think you heard me say in the opening comments that we engaged state early on to provide input to their decision making process on when to move the sivs. >> you said that you and the state department followed the advice of the ghani government that taking them out would precipitate a government collapse. the vast majority of these heroes weren't working for the government anymore. they supported a force to up to 100,000 u.s. troops. we only had 2500 troops left. why on earth did you trust president ghani? >> again, not my decision. to your point, i had input to that decision making process but it is not as if i was