Im bret baier. Breaking tonight the biden administration is under fire over its chaotic withdrawal of u. S. Troops from afghanistan. A new report from the republicans on the house of foreign Affairs Committee accuses the White House of misleading and even lying to the american public. Vice president Kamala Harris and her democratic colleagues are trying to blame former president Donald Trump for the afghanistan disaster. That is not stopping the issue from playing a role in the president ial campaign. Gillian turner starts us off tonight. Good evening. The Republicans Report is 350 pages long, contains thousands of pages of additional documentation from the chairmans two year long investigation. The biden administration iS Pushing back hard on the substance of this report and the timing of its release. Dueling reports from the house foreign Affairs Committee on the 2021 u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan. Republicans ultrafast first major finding, the biden administration failed to deve
Been the director, of the Huntington Library in san marino california. A former professor of history, and at the university of california riverside. She is a Frances Perkins scholar, and received her degree with distinction. Her dissertation, received the prize as the best dissertation of American History at yale. She began her teaching career at Simmons College and has been a fellow and a visiting professor professor at harvard university. In which the ladies of washington help build a city and government, when the first book price from the society for historians of the early american republic, and the northeast Popular Culture American Culture Association Annual book award. Political biography imperfect union, telemedicine and the creation of the american nation, was a finalist for the George Washington book price. In 2012, she published dolly medicine, the problem of National Unity and the queen of america. My fidelity madison. President obama appointed her to a president ial commis
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Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person and those that are appearing distancely. We look forward to their testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the Third Party Administrators are in administering the mission act. Im also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation, as well. Almost every member of our committee, though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us, almost every member of our committee will be participating and is expected in todays hearing. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title 1 under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs related to Veterans Community care programs and the program of comprehensive assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While va officials were