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The following is a transcript of an interview with Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois that aired Sunday, May 1, 2022, on "Face the Nation."
me. as a matter of fact, alex, today, there are 20 students from arizona who took it upon themselves to start their own hunger strike, and they have flown here to washington to confront and lobby the senate and the president of the united states. yeah, you know, that s got to feel good. i m looking at the information about those 20. they began their hunger strike on november 5. they ve come to the capital, as you say. but just look, couple of questions, first of all, how long can you continue this, joe? i do want to make it about you, you re my friend and you ve taken a position here that s pretty darn important and do you have any indication that voting rights legislation will be passed in this next week before congress goes on break? that last question, yes, i do have indication. i ve heard from senator kane and senator booker. i ve heard from several
maybe the white house may have appeared to push back the evacuation to such a time that it became a catastrophe, apparently against your advice though i would like to learn more about that and third, the pentagon failed to plan for the potential collapse of a security forces or the collapse of the afghan government despite there being quite a lot of warning. senator kane referred to it this earlier, that the afghan security forces were ill-trained and ill equipped and frankly not up to the job. i don t understand and i would like to explore that in this round or the neck and secretary austin i have to take issue. i know this is an administration talking point. i ve heard it out of the mouth of the press secretary and others. we are not leaving americans behind. that was your quote of just a minute ago. with all due respect, circumstances you have left, past tense, americans behind. we have no presence any longer in afghanistan. there were hundreds of americans not just americans gene
0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. but you didn t address the issue that you made if it was your plan, you acknowledge it was your plan and your plan said you would do all these things before we got our civilians out. i mean, when in the history of this country have we ever had the u.s. military say and have a plan that we will take our military out first before we take our civilians? i can t imagine that. when you say civilians, are you are you talking. american citizens. american citizens, yeah. the american citizens would come out once a non-combatant evacuation is declared, and