the chinese. did you talk to bob woodward or robert costa for their book? woodward, yes, costa, no. bring in our reporters on capitol hill, courtney kube is at the pentagon, shannon pettypiece and joined by defense reporter for politico. there were several headlines. we heard bits and pieces of some. give us your top takeawaysrom today. reporter: a contentious hearing. one thing that stood out was general milley and mckenzie saying they had preferred to keep about 2,500 u.s. troops in afghanistan. essentially that they opposed that complete withdrawal and mckenzie sayinge recommended that to president biden and that contradicts something that president biden said about that. let s roll the tape. your military advisers did
unprecedented. 123 million people watched one television program at the same time. the size of the response and the emotional nature of the response we were getting was difficult for us to understand. who shot j.r. and the last episode of mash are the last call for the pre-cable world of television. it s like they are the last time that that huge audience will all turn up for one event. all right. that s it. let s roll. hey. let s be careful out there. dispatch, we have a 911. armed robbery in progress. when quality does emerge on television, the phrase too good for tv is often heard.
we want to see the facts. we re hearing from people that say there s no problem with that. on january 6, many of us, a lot of people may not our politicians on the right admit this right now. people were biting nails and not sure what was going to happen. certainly, countries throughout the world were biting their nails and were worried about what was going to happen. he did the right thing in my opinion based on his position because he is basically saying everything s cool. you no, everything s cool. don t worry. everything s cool. that s my take away. howie: i want to come back to the media coverage. even the military types who go on tv are divided over this including alexander vinman who was a main witness against former president trump in the first impeachment. let s roll tape on that. even if he did this for the right reasons, he did the wrong thing and now he is toxic. i don t see anything that s
wondering about it. i ll just go on the record and say i was vaccinated the day that it was available as a physician on the front line seeing emergency patients and such. i think these vaccines were a miracle and,ing hopefully, we can continue to see increasing populations of people getting vaccinated so we can finally put away these masks and get back to life as we knew it before this all started. arthel: i like it. i m vaccinated as well. dr. riley williams, thank you so much. we ll see you again. eric? eric: arthel, this weekend we, of course, marked 9/11. and as part of that, we remember and honor to heroism of the passengers and crew of united airlines flight 93. todd beemer s unforgettable beamer s unforgettable words, let s roll, that became a rallying crying if or flower for our nation. now the bravery of the passengers and crew of that plane, it s the inspiration behind a new award.
shanksville, pennsylvania. they heard the words, let s roll. today our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. victims were in airplanes, in their offices. these acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation inokay os and retreat into chaos and retreat. but they failed. our country is strong.