yesterday it is sure to draw the ire of republicans. blinken yesterday defenlded the withdrawal of the troops from afghanistan at one point hitting his message home saying we inherited a deadline. we did not inherit a plan. he also revealed there are still several thousand u.s. green card holder on top of the some 100 citizens still stuck in afghanistan. there were several heated exchanges with republicans including this one moment when congressman bryan mast asked him about the leaked transcripts from biden s call where biden tried to persuade ghani to change the perception. the issue was not whether afghanistan had the capacity to withstand the taliban, whether the will and plan to do so. the transcript is a lie. it is in correct. it is false, lie, incorrect