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house chief of staff, the national security advisor, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, director of national intelligence, either of the relevant committees in the house including the big eight which include intel. you didn t tell the intelligent committee. you report that after you took upon yourself to have this phone conversation that you told them of the conversation. not that china believed that we were going to imminently attack them which has never been true in my lifetime. and it may be true since they believed it and why they are digging icbm holes, but you chose to handle it yourself with a phone call. so general milley you offered all of the concern intelligence and i will request you provide it to us. i would like you to provide us the relevant intelligence information that you based your belief that china was going to believed was an imminent attack and i want your request for declassification of the
significant and concerning to the point where secretary of defense esper, admiral davidson and myself along with others had conversations about it and i was directed by then secretary of defense esper first he directed his assistant secretary of defense for asia pacific defense to make calls and then me. this is all done with oversight and i tried to lay that out in the memoranda and time line that you can use. we ll have to leave it at that. happy to take it up at a later today. mr. courtney. thank you to the witnesses for your service and testimony today. one comment mr. chairman before questions over the last month including yesterday s senate hearing we heard a lot that the u.s. had lost credibility with its allies. last week we saw firsthand in washington how mistaken that claim was. on wednesday last week i attended a ceremony in the senate where the australian
point there was a full debate of the pros and cons and costs and risks yet in august of this year president biden told george stephanopolous in an interview no one said that to me keeping 2500 troops in afghanistan. was that an inaccurate statement by the president. i won t comment on the statement by the president. okay. general mckenzie your commanders on the ground in mid june were reporting things were deteriorating and increase forces and proceed with the retrograde. what did you decide at that time? we decided to proceed with the retrograde. were you ordered to do that by the president? we followed our we had original orders and we followed fem through to completion. was it the president s orders. my orders come from the secretary of defense to the