that wasn t true. i think that s a key part of that phrasing there. reporter: and she declined to detail who recommended what, saying they re private conversations regarding private advi that was given to the president. but big pictur she said in the white house s defense has been that this was a decision the president was going to make at the end of the day. you could put aside what was advised to him by who. this was the president s decision and the president decided that aer 20 years, it was time to bring u.s. troops home. that staying longer could have put u.s. troops at risk and that is why the president made the desion that he made ultimately. courtney, when you look, though, there were some unanswered questions. for all the questions that were laid out in the testimony today andeing asked by senars on both sides of the aisle,here s pieces of information that we do know if these leaders in the defee agencies that run the
good sense of exactly where the breakdown was that led to the u.s. not seeing the taliban was moving through quickly and they would be able to take over the country while american troops were still there. now, it s important to point out the vast majority of u.s. troops were out of afghanistan by mid-july. that was the plan all along. and we heard that today. in fact, we heard it in that timeline, that when the president came to the u.s. the military and said, i want all troops out, general milley laid out his plan, it was approved. all layers of the government knew about it. it was very straight forward. and it included most u.s. troops getting out by mid-july. the only presence that would be there would be about 650 who were assigned to the embassy security and some airport security. so but what we still don t have a sense is, why that was not factored in, that mid-july, most troops would be out. there was this assumption that the taliban wouldn t try to take the country back unt
he just tweeted in the last few minutes saying that he urges progressives in the house to vote against that bipartisan bill saying that this is a broken commitment that those two pieces of legislation were supposed to go in tandem. meanwhile, president biden, as you mentioned, is meeting with two key moderate senators who everyone is trying to figure out what exactly they stand for in this entire negotiation. senators manchin and sinema. and joe manchin says, once ain, which is the same thing he told me yesterday, he s given no commitment to anyone, including the president. it s unclear how ty get to that threshold to pass this bipartisan bill on thursday, a member of congress was just walking by me she said i promise we going to get this done. it s going t happen. i said this week? and shesaid, probably not. well, that says a lot right the.
intensity moments of the entire hearing all day today, hallie. and we know senator hawley who has been trying to go after general milley throughout the meeting. thanks to all of you. appreciate your time. we have a busy afternoon ahead, including, yeah, there he is, the chair of the house budget committee, congressman john yarmuth. he s going to break a lot of news on this show. he s going to tell us exactly where negotiations stand and what happens next. a sneak peek into the trump white house tell all. the president s third press secretary says about her former boss and why she never spoke to the press at all. o t the press at all we welcomehange? we can make emergency medicine possible at 40,000 feet. instead of burning our past for power, we can harness the energy of the tiny electron.
unreasonable. but there s still a lot of posturing going on and this, unfortunately, is how we pass legislation these days. but this is really interesting, congressman. what you seem to be saying and i want to be clear on this you re saying that for members of the house progressive caucus, assurances will be enough to get this vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill done this week. yeah. i think so. i ve talkedo a lot of progressives and, again, some are sounding pretty adamant. but i think in the final analis, they re going to reize that the that this is their objective and the only way to get it done is to have some trust, and that s i think what speaker pelosi s number one task right now. i think the president s engaged in that effort as well. but the ones i ve talked to are more pragmatic than they sound when they re drawing these lines. and it s unfortunate they are. but a lot of these members who are now the ones speaking out and drawing the lines have