was the original mission was over -- m that has been the whi house rationale and they feel -- they say that their hands were tied by donald trump's decision to get out on may 1st, that -- as secretary blinken is telling meet b the press today, that on may 2nd, we would have been embroiled in this brutal civil war and having to send thousands andha thousands of troops back in order to stop the taliban because they had said that they would startth fighting the day after the may 1st withdrawal that had been agreed to by the previous administration. whether that is true or not, whether we could have kept 2,500 troops and then added more and still stabilized the country, i don't think anyone will ever know forhe sure. but that is going to be the debate that you are already seeing now. at this hour, i should point out nancy pelosi has arranged a briefing for all members of theh house, bipartisan. it's an unclassified briefing. there was supposed to be a