they advised that if you withdrew, the afghan military logistic support, intelligence support, maintenance support and air support all at once it would likely fail. then once biden made those decisions, bipartisan both side of the aisle in congress and the military began demanding and began the evacuation back in april. the state department didn t listen. the biden white house didn t listen. and now we have 13 new gold star families on top of americans or allies being left behind and a stain on our credibility around the world. bill: thank you for your service. you understand chain of command. the chain of command says the commander-in-chief says do it eventually you have to do it. isn t that where it stops? look, i think at the end of the day the military took this crap sandwich so to speak and this flawed judgment in terms of oshders and tried to make
that we re in this position because we actually didn t need to be in this position had the administration started the evacuation back in april when i and others were starting to call for it. you could have had most of these folks out. this would be a very different situation. but that s not going to help us now. what we need to do is be singularly focused on the mission of getting folks out. we have the ability to do it. i don t think 5,000, 6,000 troops is going to do the job. i think we ll have to send in some more as well as additional assets to make sure we re extending that perimeter out. but also i just got a video actually five minutes before coming on here sent by a friend of mine of the line trying to get into the airport and gunfire and the chaos and the taliban checkpoints and the things that you described and showed pictures of. we can t allow that to happen. we have to extend that perimeter out. open up some mechanism for folks to get to the airport. yeah, congressman