here you can see defense secretary lloyd austin on his way into the building this morning. there you see him. joining me now with a preview of what we might hear, aileen cooper, lieutenant douglas former deputy national security adviser for iraq and afghanistan. kori schake, the director of foreign and defense policy at the american enterprise substitute, she served on the national security council for president george w. bush, and an msnbc international affairs analyst. thank you all for being with me. general, yesterday s headline was largely the discrepancy between advice officials say they gave the president while at the white house and what the president and the white house claims at the time with both austin and milley claiming they told the president to keep 2,500 troops in afghanistan, even though the president told abc that leaders agreed with his decision to pull out entirely. is this a cause for a concern? i agree, there is still lack
other than joining a different proceeding, they should leave the video function on. if members will be absent for a different period, they should exit the software platform entirely and then rejoin it if they return. members may use the software platforms chat feature to communicate with staff regarding technical or logistical support issues only. finally, i have designated a committee staff member to, if necessary, mute unrecognized members microphones to cancel inadvertent background noise that may disrupt the procedure. good morning, i d like to welcome our witnesses here. we have the honorable lloyd austin iii secretary of defense, general mark milley, chairman joint chief of staff, and i want to thank them for the time as they provide an update on the issues surrounding the end of the u.s. military mission in afghanistan and our mission going toward dealing with counterterrorism in south asia and the continuing mission to try to get as many afghans and any remaining americans out
less you have you still have intel sources to rely on, but they re less reliable. you are piecing together pieces of a puzzle, and it s a lot harder to do, and that s sort of the future going forward, which is one of the reasons why the military s worried that both al qaeda and isis are going to be able to they re already both boots are already there in afghanistan, but they will be able to build up more of a capacity while the united states military which is one of the reasons why lloyd austin, the defense secretary when the pentagon leaders were advising president biden against withdrawing, said we ve seen this movie before. he was referring to iraq and the rise of isis there. helene, thank you very much. it looks like things are getting underway on capitol hill on this house hearing, getting underway. let s go to that now. for a short while for reasons
0 up the coverage right now. good morning, it s 9:00 a.m., i m jose diaz-balart in for stephanie ruhle who s on assignment. a massive infrastructure vote, the pressure is on in the house and the senate. senate republicans standing their ground on the debt limit as a rift between democrats appears to grow even wider. also on the hill this morning, in 30 minutes defense secretary lloyd austin, general mark milley and general mckenzie will face another day of questions, this time from members of the house armed services committee. two of the top military officials admitting yesterday they disagreed with the president about how the u.s. should withdraw from afghanistan. and on the covid front there may be a glimmer of hope this morning, some southern states appear to be past the latest peak. we ll revisit an icu in hard hit mississippi to see firsthand how hospitals are holding up. and we begin on capitol hill where democrats in the house and senate are in a stalemate with just hours b
prepared for strong, a strong military response. i have enormous if faith in the secretary of defense, general lloyd austin iii. i ve worked with him in the past. i ve visited with him when he was that head of central command. i do believe it s the important that a we have a sec-def who has commanded the middle east in the past. i ve seen him work in equal parts of diplomat, military officer, military separate just. i think taliban will take him seriously. eric: i certainly hope so, and i m glad you have that confidence. we ll see how it rolls out spsm what s so ironic about the situation is that the new potential president of afghanistan is the cofounder of the taliban mullah baradar, and the u.s. knows him very well. there he is. he s the guy who negotiated and sat down with american diplomats in doha for the trump