every contingency for dealing with our draw down. we relied upon the taliban to be our security. we got 13 of our military personnel and afghan civilians killed. they didn t provide very good security. we never should have relied on them. let me move on them. we were not relying upon the taliban. you know kwhawhat happened is t afghan security forces collapsed. we executed the plans we had in place and draw down our embassy, move it to the airport. military took over the airport and started getting ting evacu flights out at 72 hours. it didn t work out so well. president biden has laid the blame for the evacuation debacle on others rather than himself.
0 legitimizing them as a real government? not only us but virtually the sp entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban if they want to see any support and that include, it starts with freedom of travel. we have been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we re working on that every day. thank you. i yield back. thank you. mr. secretary we requested such a classified briefing not too long ago. we welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing some time in the immediate future. yes, absolutely. i recognize representative brad sherman from california for five minutes. thank you for reminding us that americans were not required to register if they were in afghanistan. i hope my colleagues will support my legislation to require americans to register if they go to war zone. the ranking member says he never thought he would see an unconditional surrender