up this clip over the weekend. i ll play it for you. bret was talking to lloyd austan. do you have any regrets about afghanistan is the question. here is the give and take on that, general. do you have any regrets about the afghan withdrawal? i regret the fact that we lost 13 of our finest at abby gate. i regret that we lost 10 civilians in an errant strike. bill: went on from there. talked about the evacuation of 120 or 130,000, whatever the number was. what did you think of that response, general? well, i certainly agree with those regrets but actually the obvious regret, the elephant in the room here is the fact we surrendered afghanistan to our adversary who will enable foreign terrorists to find a home in afghanistan and threaten the american people. that s the fundamental issue here. there was no intent when
of the joint chiefs, first african-american secretary of state. a man who was respected around the globe and who will be quite frankly it is not possible to replace a colin powell. we will miss him. again, my thoughts and prayers go out to the family and we are deeply saddened to learn of this. bill: strong statement. very personal. dana: reaction from lloyd austan, our defense secretary. bill: he is traveling overseas in the country of georgia when he delivered that statement a moment ago. an anecdote. i was at the state department in 2002-2003 and talking about the serious decision about sending american men and women to war in the build-up to the iraq war of 2003. it was obvious from his tone how serious he took the gravity of this moment. then we shut the cameras off and said i m taking off for europe now.