that are wrong. courtney, look at what the ambassador referenced. i want to play part of what the president said during an interview with abc news. specifically he talks about the idea of keeping a small force in afghanistan. your top military advisers warned against withdrawing on this timeline, wanted to keep 2500 troops. no, they didn t, that was split. that wasn t true. that wasn t true. they didn t tell you they wanted troops to stay? no. not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a time frame all troops. they didn t argue against that. no one told, your military advisers didn t tell you no, we should keep 2500 troops, it has been a stable situation the last several years, we can do that, continue to do that? no, no one said that to me that i can recall. courtney, help us fact check that exchange. the defense officials i have spoken with said across the board the u.s. military advice was that the u.s. maintain a small presence of troops there,
desperate to leave. several thousand came storming in. the marines didn t know who was coming at them, according to witnesses i have spoken to. they thought maybe it was taliban. they rushed out in small numbers then larger numbers to push them back, things escalated. there were clashes. marines took out weapons. they were firing in the air, trying to disburse crowds. but crowds did not disburse. some hung on to the bottom of the c-17 transport, and according to witnesses, as it took off, at least two people fell to their deaths, fell from about 400 feet. richard engle. nbc news, kabul. i want to bring in nbc s chief white house correspondent peter alexander. courtney kube who covers the pentagon for us, and ronald newman, former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan and president of the american academy of diplomacy as well as peter baker, chief white house correspondent for new york
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