the top military generals pretty much all contradicted each other during the past couple of days in these hearings on capitol hill and that they all said that they advise the president to leave some small number of troops there, 2500. the president says they didn t. so now, we have a situation where we have a lot of weapons left behind. we want to put these up on the screen for you. the numbers of some weapons we have come at 600,000 weapons, 75,000 vehicles left behind. who is going to be held accountable for this? the hearings yesterday, i think the two main takeaways from that is this foreign policy fiasco and you are listing one of the reasons on the weapons but this entire fiasco is president biden s. he owns this. and you saw yesterday in the
stay focused on afghanistan. that foreign policy fiasco that the president solely owns will have ramifications not just for terrorism but as i mentioned in the hearing today i think other countries will test us. i think russia, country and iran will test us because they are testing our credibility and would better be ready and we better be strong. anita: and senator dan sullivan, thank you so much for your insight. john: is a breaking news to tell you about, it looks like there will not be a government shutdown at midnight tonight because the senate has got the vote to pass that stopgap spending bill that would fund the government through the 3rd of december. a bigger fight though is still in the works over raising the debt ceiling and of course the bipartisan infrastructure bill which is up for a vote today and then there s that three and a half trillion dollar reconciliation bill. they ve got something done today but there s a lot still to go. a lot. amid plummeting poll number
promised to actually do that. but, as he also said in his testimony, there was absolutely no indication whatsoever that former president trump was going to start any war. so i was pressing this issue because it s a really important one. right now, the book says one thing that was in the the washington post. general milley says something else. but i think it s really important, as we are going to continue to do oversight to get to the bottom of this, and also importantly, the bottom of the issues that were front and center in the hearing today on afghanistan and joe biden s foreign policy fiasco and how he owns it. brian: he crushed the credibility of measure and earn it back because of one man s decision that s clear. and also, it s inco-prehence cybil that general milley would admit cooperating with peril by bob woodward. frankly we didn t win this election with michael bender and i alone can fix it by phil rut kerr and another author.
the president continues to say this fiasco was, quote: an extraordinary success. i asked general milley that. general milley in the hearing today called it a strategic failure. so, look, these lies, these are not some kind of minor misstatements. these were huge fabrications at the heart of this foreign policy fiasco. life and death deceptions that we finally were confirming in the hearing today. brian: senator, you couldn t have known because you were busy but jen psaki was asked who were the generals that advised the president to pull out since he said he got reports from both sides? she could not name one. and the other story was general milley himself. he was, you know, he was chronicled in few books saying that he wanted to keep troops there. he thought it was a bad move to leaf. he also you asked him about his call with the his counterpart in china. listen.
you are saying today that general milley will testify publicly. we will find out in real time, correct? that s correct. i think we will see increasingly particularly the advice that was given to the president last spring from his military advisors was not to leave, not to go to zero. if you do go to zero, the chaos we are seeing right now was likely going to happen. people need to know that. president biden rejected that. he owns this foreign policy fiasco. bill: thanks for your time. dana: the new york post cover has stinking blinken on it. it says that blinken is a yes man at biden s side for 2 decades and fingering team trump