dissent cable, which is very extraordinary, kaitlan. it s very rare that that s done. and so the way i look at this, i got to read it and so did the ranking member, but, you know, i think the rest of the members. committee pursuant to the subpoena have every right to see this as well. we have a lot of afghan afghanistan veterans. you saw two of them with tapper in that piece prior, and you know, the two that share the oversight, one brian, lost his legs in afghanistan, and the other one, jason crow, the democrat, served in afghanistan. i can t really look them in the eye and say, hey, i got to read this thing, but you re not gonna get access. i think the american people should be able to read what their embassy employees were thinking at that time. their state of mind is critical a month prior to the fall of afghanistan. and everything they predicted it in that cable actually happened,
a different standard when he was in office and he said they shouldn t use the debt limit as a negotiating tactic and he says it s different because he is no longer president. i want to ask, you are the chair of the house foreign affairs committee as i said, you are investigating the exit of afghanistan, withdrawal. you viewed some key documents. have you heard whether or not they are going to share those documents with the rest of the members of your committee yet? if so, are you prepared to pull that contempt resolution you prepared for secretary blinken? well, i did have a chance to read the classified cable. very stark, dire warnings from our embassy employees, 23 of them on the ground in kabul a month before it fell. everything they predicted actually happened. and it s unfortunate that the administration didn t listen to what they were saying because they were actually spot on. and i applaud them for taking the courageous step to do a
adversaries. maria: and then, of course, you go to taiwan in april of this year, and you re surrounded by an armada of battleships from china, and then you get sanctioned from the chinese communist party. i want to get your take on antony blinken s role because you have been threatening that you are going to hold him in contempt of congress until you saw the data that you wanted to see in terms of the afghanistan withdrawal. where are you on that? right. well, you know, they were not going to give us the dissenting cables from the embassy. it s very important because 23 em bass with city employees disagreed embassy employees disagreed and dissented from the administration s policy. so we want that information. i offered to redact the names, but i want to see the content and the secretary s response, you know, to that. i think they have finally caved. i would say blinken blinked, and now they re going to produce it. but it s not just for me and the ranking member, not me as
go to taiwan in april of this year, and you re surrounded by an armada of battleships from china, and then you get sanctioned from the chinese communist party. i want to get your take on antony blinken s role because you have been threatening that you are going to hold him in contempt of congress until you saw the data that you wanted to see in terms of the afghanistan withdrawal. where are you on that? right. well, you know, they were not going to give us the dissenting cables from the embassy. it s very important because 23 em bass with city employees disagreed embassy employees disagreed and dissented from the administration s policy. so we want that information. i offered to redact the names, but i want to see the content and the secretary s response, you know, to that. i think they have finally caved. i would say blinken blinked, and now they re going to produce it. but it s not just for me and the ranking member, not me as chairman, i want every member of
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