thorough internal after action reviews. each of them examining their decision-making processes as well as how those decisions were executed today they are making those reviews available to relevant committees in the senate and in the house as previewed by secretaries blinken and austin in testimony last month. those reviews as karine said rightly fed into a process looking across the administration so today we are making available to all of you and to the public a document that provides our perspectives on the withdrawal and outlines in broad strokes some of what we learned as well as how we are already implementing some of those lessons. that document will be posted to the white house website at the conclusion of my briefing. i d like to take some time, if you ll allow me, to provide you an overview. first and most critically, the president s decision to end the war in afghanistan was the right one. the united states had long ago accomplished its mission to remove from the battlefield
SECRETARY MATTIS: Well, good morning, everyone, and welcome to today’s event, a conversation between former Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice and our current Secretary of State Tony Blinken.