watch book tv and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime booktv.org. a firsthand account of the troop withdrawal from afghanistan including testimony from a soldier injured in the kabul suicide bombing. officers discussed conditions on the ground leading up to the withdrawal. the hearing is just overfive hours . the committee on foreign affairs will come to order. this is to examine the administrations disastrous emergency evacuation from afghanistan. i now recognizemyself . in the spring of 2021, against the advice of his top generals and intelligence community president biden announced he would unconditionally withdraw all american troops from afghanistan. a decision that i opposed. i and many on this committee received multiple reasons from the state department, department of defense, intelligence community and the difference in their assessments was start. both dod and ic outlook were very grim. in their assessments. while the state departm