further amount of time or investment was going to lead to a situation with an afghan government that is stable and secure. in some ways their argument now is contradicting the argument they were making to the american people a month ago that this is not what the intelligence shows. jake sullivan also pointed to the white house philosophy about this balancing act, which is, all of the confidence the administration showed in the afghan government was not enough to keep it stable. you can understand why the administration was never going to concede publicly -- we could probably parse the president's answer a month ago and jake's unwillingness to answer the question now as to what the intelligence actually said. you'll never see an intelligence report state anything with 100% confidence. maybe the president was disputing it on those grounds. clearly this has been something the president has been committed to regardless.