resource efs to do that. >> you all testified yesterday it wasn't a matter of if the afghan army would fail and the taliban would take over, you were shocked by the rate it happened. the billions of dollars in equipment has been left behind has been under much scrutiny. knowing that they were going to fail, why were more steps not taken to secure that military equipment or destroy it knowing now it's with the taliban. >> the 84 billion included all of the -- >> let's cut to the equipment left behind. why was so much left behind. aircraft, weapons, why was that there when you knew they were going to fail? >> the other thing i would say all the equipment that we were using as i stated earlier was evacuated by general miller.