to their husband and those are some of the areas that yesterday they talked to the speaker and to the majority leader and others about was, you know, can t you at least get us those kinds of things that every family member of someone lost deserves? bill: sir, have you met hunter, the mother of hunter lopez? he was a marine corporal and this is what his mom said. she said we just don t want our kids names to be forgotten. we want accountability. just seems like it has been such an uphill climb, sir. it absolutely has been. it is one of the reasons that when we took the majority it became a priority of the speaker and of the chairman mccaul, to get answers and to what happened and how it happened so it doesn t happen again. and for every the nine family
it doesn t tell you what happened, if the fbi looked into this and later found out there was nothing to it. it doesn t tell you if someone else came in and provided contradictory information. it doesn t tell you the background of this confidential source and whether they thought they were a total wacko and had no information in fact. so they re trying to lay the groundwork that what you see in that document may not be what you re hoping it s going to be. chairman mccaul did go to the state department and look at this dissent cable in the afghanistan withdrawal. he wishes the whole committee could see it but that was a reasonable compromise and stepping stone. chairman comer up to this phone call, you re right, he s saying this before the phone call and says that doesn t seem like it s going to be enough for him. the fbi s decision to stiff-arm congress and obstructionist and unacceptable. the committee will take steps to hold the fbi director in contempt of congress for
followed. the difference would have been the airport would have been cold instead of hot. the real meaning here sorry. go ahead. what we have to understand here is there s a legitimate role for congress to play, given the scale of the humanitarian crisis, given the speed at which the afghan government fell, and given the severity of the suicide bombing that you mentioned earlier. so a possible compromise, we ll see if it plays all. senator mccaul says he would look all to see it. the testimony from a marine sniper, who says he thought they had identified the suicide bomber at the kabul airport, but there was confusion, couldn t get chain of command issues whether they could take that bomber out. a letter to the pentagon demanding information from that, we want all the documents and all details, so potentially
the chairman offering to review the cable without reviewing the names of those diplomats who signed onto the cable because the state department has said that this is a channel that allows diplomats to stay anonymous and they don t want to put them essentially in the middle of this back-and-forth battle that has become quite political. but what we re also hearing from the house foreign affairs committee on this is that the biden administration has a history, in their words, of summarizing what has to do with the afghanistan withdrawal in not a very accurate way. so what they re concerned about here is they re not getting the most accurate portrayal of this dissent cable from the state department given what they have already provided. now, thursday is the day for this deadline that chairman mccaul has given to the state department. we ll watch to see how this legal battle continues to unfold. boris. a big deadline on thursday. kylie atwood from the state department, thanks so much. s