evacuating 124,000 people. the war was a strategic failure. reporter: jengeneral mark miy making clear after donald trump lost the election he ordered an accelerated withdraw of u.s. troops before president joe biden took office. having already agreed with the taliban to fully withdraw. it was a decision milley said he was cut out of. that s why i went over to the white house with acting secretary miller and white house chief of staff kash patel to discuss that order. so i wasn t consulted on it. reporter: republican lawmakers went after the apparent contradiction between the jgeneral wanting 2,500 troos to stay and the president telling abc news he didn t get that advice. in january of this year, were you of the opinion in your professional military judgment we should have maintained 2,500 troops, u.s. troops? yeah, my assessment that i read in the opening statement remained consistent. did that professional military opinion change over the
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i wasn t consultod 11 of november order that i received. that is why i went over to the white house with acting secretary miller and white house chief of staff patell, i wasn t consulted on. my time has expired. mr. waltz. thank you, mr. chairman, here is where i think we re talking past each other. this war is not done. it is not over. this is a war against islamic extremism, war against an ideology and just as it took decades, decades issue not 20 or 30 years, many more, defeat communism and idea of fascism, it will take decades to defeat the idea of islamic extremism. general mckenzie, you testified yesterday, al qaeda is still at war with us. do you stand by that statement? absolutely. hanees, director of national