america reports on this monday afternoon. democrats scoring big wins over the tax and spend bill. will they pay the price as many republicans are suggesting come the midterm elections? hello, and welcome everyone. sandra smith in new york city. bill: hope you had a great weekend. good weekend, too, at home. john roberts has the day off. let s get to it now. months of negotiations, different versions of build back better. democratic senators manchin and sinema get on board with schumer s passage, kind of was a secret to everybody. sandra: and manchin claiming the $740 billion bill would not raise taxes on the middle class, republicans are making the case otherwise. bill: warning that billions in extra spending will come back to haunt democrats election time in november. sandra: and in the middle of all of it, aishah is live on capitol hill, manchin and sinema are dealing with serious fallout from every direction after this passage. hey, sandra, good to see you. tha
president trump and his administration on february 29, 2020. we committed to leave by a date certain. there was a particular provision or condition, if you will, about negotiations between the taliban and the afghan government. there was even a date specified march 10th, 2020, less than two weeks after the signing of the doha agreement. clearly that condition was not met. my question is and general milley you are the only one who overlapped the two administrations. were there efforts on behalf of the prior administration to enforce that condition of negotiation with the afghan government and the taliban? senator, as i said in my opening remarks, the conditions that were required of the taliban, none of them were met except one. my question is did we attempt to enforce those
0 retake bagram then? thank you, senator. you are right, the tempo had picked up significantly. the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engaged in after began leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and stiffen their defenses to no avail. and to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. mr. secretary i don t mean to interrupt but my time is lapsing. this gets to the overestimation, i think the overly optimistic assessment. even as late as july you are still encouraging the afghan special forces, you are expecting the ghani government to remain, but that was not the case. in december of 2019 the washington post reported the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the a
we had over 3,000 paramilitary support. we kept the air power and bagram air place. that was the agreement in place. everybody knew that. the plan was set to hold those forces until we had a good agreement in place, which was an agreement between the afghan government, ghani and the taliban. that was part of the agreement on february 29, 2020 called the doha agreement. until a stipulations were met, we were going to stay there. the president of the united states, donald trump, picked up the phone on march 3 and i was in the oval office when he made the call. he talked to the chief taliban negotiator and made it very clear using trumpian terms, what would happen if we violated the agreement? because of that we had no americans killed from the 29th of february, 2020 until president trump left office.
council that controlled cable and none of them could speak the language. i ll give you other examples, too. i don t think you have the time. just to “um think you have the time. just to jump in think you have the time. just to jump in there. think you have the time. just tojump in there. anthony blink and said the us will work with the taliban if indeed the taliban sticks to its commitments. of a relationship do you see happening there? well, i don t know. they ve never stuck to any of their commitments. you know, the historic peace agreement of february 29, 2020 was not even a peace agreement. it was a plan for a phased withdrawal. it had other things in it that they have not lived up to at all so i don t trust the sincerity of the taliban or their word. sincerity of the taliban or