Im bret baier. Breaking tonight the biden administration is under fire over its chaotic withdrawal of u. S. Troops from afghanistan. A new report from the republicans on the house of foreign Affairs Committee accuses the White House of misleading and even lying to the american public. Vice president Kamala Harris and her democratic colleagues are trying to blame former president Donald Trump for the afghanistan disaster. That is not stopping the issue from playing a role in the president ial campaign. Gillian turner starts us off tonight. Good evening. The Republicans Report is 350 pages long, contains thousands of pages of additional documentation from the chairmans two year long investigation. The biden administration iS Pushing back hard on the substance of this report and the timing of its release. Dueling reports from the house foreign Affairs Committee on the 2021 u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan. Republicans ultrafast first major finding, the biden administration failed to deve
they feel like putin may have backfired here, that he read the afghanistan withdrawal last summer and drew the wrong conclusion, that he thought that was a sign of american weakness, when really, that was simply president biden honoring a campaign commitment, one he had for a decade where he felt like it was time for the u.s. to come home, and certainly the withdrawal itself, especially in those early days, would have gone better, administration officials concede, but that wasn t a sign of american reluctance to be strong across the globe, and putin may have misread that is what the administration officials feel. and they think that the nato allies now are tighter than ever, even as though, of course, it s open question whether ukraine itself will ever gain membership, and that is putin s primary concern. he can t let that happen. tired army lieutenant colonel alexander vindman, julia ioffe and jonathan lemire, thank you so much for starting us off. when we come back, the house ove
whether we should have troops on the ground in afghanistan or not, but it does mean an awful lot of times we re hitting the wrong individuals. you just have to be very realistic about the limitations of that ability to protect america and to target bad guys. one of the reasons why republicans and democrats have been criticizing the biden administration for the way the withdrawal happened, not necessarily the withdrawal itself, is because of all the americans, not to mention afghan allies. in terms of legal permanent residents, is your priority just as high to get them out as it is to get out citizens? our number one priority is american citizens, and that has i think long been the case. i didn t realize there s a second level of priority for a legal permanent resident. how many legal permanent residents are we convinced are
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