decision, now some say we should have started mass evacuations sooner and couldn't this have been done in a more orderly manner? i respectfully disagree. imagine if we begun evacuations in june or july, bringing in thousands of american troops and evacuating more than 120,000 people in the middle of a civil war. there still would have been a rush to the airport. a breakdown in confidence in control of the government and still would have been very difficult and dangerous mission. >> imagine that, though. listen, president of the united states saying i take responsibility. sounds odd. that's the way it should be. but we hadn't heard that in at least five years. the president also incysting that he remains committed to