general milley. i knew him since he was 3-star general in texas and general milley is a capable guy and someone who responds to whoever is in trouble. when donald trump was in power, he was close and did whatever he wanted. as soon as joe biden came into power, it was dizzy how milley spun around. milley s conduct in afghanistan, abandoning bagram and abandoning americans behind. there are a lot of reasons why general milley and secretary and president biden and kamala harris need to be held into account. but the report this past week that general milley called the lead general in china and said that he would prevent president trump from carrying out any military orders, i d very much hope that report is not true. bob woodward includes it in the
out by a date certain. miller also told the committee, sources say, decisions like abandoning bagram were forced because of conditions imposed by the president s orders, like troop limits. something the chairman of the joint chiefs also told fox news. that was you could not with the conditions that existed and the constraints and restraints of the mission, you couldn t bagram. they concluded the military bagram was not much value-added. i followed that recommendation. the president hasn t spoken about afghanistan since last weekend. even as more than 100 americans and countless refugees and green card holders remain. instead, focusing on issues at home like covid, where his approval rating has been steadily sinking since may. now also receiving pushback on vaccine mandates. some of the same governors attacking me are in states with the strictest vaccine mandates for children attending school in the entire country. but in remarks wednesday and thursday, the president s own
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were included in the chairman of the joint chiefs presentation to the national security council before biden s decision. senators were unclear if the president ultimately saw miller s recommendation. wanting to hear from defense secretary lloyd austin about how much weight they were given. was the president support secretary austin appearing before congress? we encourage it. he is appearing before congress at the end of the month and he has already agreed to that. miller told senators once his recommendation was turned down, it became his job to execute on the withdrawal order and eventually decisions like abandoning bagram were forced by constraint through the president s orders like troop caps. pressure is now ramping up on the hill for more hearings. the congress has either been lied to, mislead, or given overly rosy projections. tonight president biden announced new try lateral agreement between australia, the u.k. and the u.s. known as aukus. it will help australia acqui
couple of things. one is, we defeated the taliban with a handful of special forces on horseback with northern alliance fighters issue but with u.s. air cover. two, had the u.s. air cover been there for the afghan forces, perhaps they wouldn t have thrown down their arms and let the taliban take over. lastly, there was a lot of effort to say a number of administrations dealt with this and that is true, a lot of mistakes. this is kind of like the game old maid, the card game, we have many bad hands issue bad moves throughout the game, but it is the person holding the card, the old maid, who loses. this administration is holding the old maid of the afghanistan withdrawal. many decisions have been made that were wrong, but this is the one that really is the loser. john: ted cruz, put forward litany of mistakes made, abandoning bagram, giving a list