dozens of bills addressing china s economic and scientific produce ease. the role in the spread of covid and post temperature toward taiwan. in a new hour the china select committee begins its first hearing. and e.p.a. administrator michael reagan returned to ohio suffering from derailment. he was new community welcome center. first, our exclusive interview. flush mr. director, thanks for the time. we are here in the strategic operation center at the fbi headquarters. we appreciate you talking to us. absolutely. happy to talk with you, bret. bret: you know, polls show that the fbi s reputation is at a real record low. what do you make of that? well, look. there are all sorts of opinions out there about the fbi just like there are about every major institution these days. i can tell you that we are focused on the opinions of the people we actually do the work for and the people we do the work with. and i look at things like, for example, our recruiting, the thousands
their competence, their training is the best in the region everyone wants a slice of it. a defense department spokesman says the u.s. took prudent actions to ensure that sensitive data does not fall into the taliban s hands. the report exams the collapse of the afghan military which began shortly after the doha agreement was signed by secretary of state mike pompeo under president trump s direction the doha agreement psychological implication was so great that the average afghan soldier felt this idea of abandonment. soldiers were confused what to engage and what to not. that according to general sammy sadat former afghan army corps commander. then when president biden announced all u.s. troops would leaf afghanistan, all maintenance contracts were pulled out which essentially grounded the afghan air force. bret? bret: jennifer griffin at the