that is he and he alone, that he has that burden. the pentagon said today u.s. military commanders on the ground made the best decisions, provided the best military advice based on what was known at the time. the attack was not preventible, they say, without degrading the mission to compromise a number of evacuees. general mark milley weighing in saying if there were any issues with how pentagon briefers updated the families, that should be corrected. these parents say that that is not the problem here. the issue is not the lack of information during those briefings. it s a disregard of intelligence. it s the disregard of planning. that s what you should be apologizing for. one thing that we haven t seen from all of the statements that were released, the briefing the pentagon had, trace, an
lopezes one of several gold star families today demanding accountability. i don t want to hear lies. i don t want to hear excuses from joe biden. reporter: many blaming president biden. several presidents preceded mr. biden in this 20-year war, but none of them are to be held accountable for the withdrawal. that is he and he alone. reporter: the chaotic u.s. withdrawal began as the taliban quickly took over the country. president biden has argued leaving afghanistan was the right choice. i was not going to extend this forever war. and i was not extending a forever exit. reporter: tonight the pentagon defending its response. u.s. military commanders on the ground in afghanistan made decisions that they could with the information that they had at the time. reporter: and tonight the joint chiefs chair mark milley saying that the briefers have given the families, quote, every piece of information that they could, but saying they do owe them accountability. lester?
he could afford. we kept getting back drops. half the places i felt like should have been condemned that he could afford. the other half are wanting four times your rent. i hear all the other gen z s and millennials in my comments saying they finally feel seen. us as gen x we forget it s not the same as it is now for our kids. we think we did it they should be able to, too. we need to be their advocate. i didn t have kids to watch them suffer their entire life. brian: there is always the option of getting another job which a lot of people did early on, too. i don t know what her specific situation is i question the politics of it. just politics. if you are the president of the united states and you sit counsel with your briefers and your campaign people, if he, in fact, does. say should i be economy. what s the downside of doing this? i m going over to arizona which i only won by a few thousand votes, is this the message that s going to knock it out of the park allow me to keep that
the mail ballot, they cheat. it is very dangerous for this country because their cheaters. they collect them and they re fraudulent in my cases. that is just a sample of what he said. there was a lot more of this rhetoric. right, the rhetoric escalated ex exponentially. and you have factual information from his briefers and that is why we re told special counsel made examining this meeting because of trump s mindset and how he absorbed factual information that was reity earitied to him and remained on the same election day and these productions are why the u.s. officials declared the most secure in u.s. history. what does this mean for jack smith s investigations into trump s actions? well a couple of things we
insidious of that. i think it is bizarre when someone is claiming to put america first and preventing this military to be first. even mitch mcconnell has said this is wrong, and he is pushing forward and the first time in over 100 years, we don t have a commandant of the marine core. and tuberville says that pentagon staff said that he called the briefing a debacle. i wanted to read you what he said. the briefers confirmed that the policy was not based on facts. meaning the abortion policy. it was based on an extreme political ideology is what senator tuberville says, and he asked them for evidence about military readiness and the impact of it, and he says that the pentagon and the staffers have provided no evidence that this policy impedes readiness.