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Didn t set in motion the afghanistan withdrawal.pompeo, e blame, to partially wrote. as alex marquardt reports, the indelible images from the withdrawal and the plight of the afghan people left behind make this a debate with no end in sight. one year ago, this was the deadly and chaotic culmination of efforts by the past two u.s. presidents to withdraw from afghanistan. the taliban had overrun the country. the afghan military and government had collapsed. sapped of american support. the biggest u.s. base in afghanistan, bagram, abandoned by u.s. forces virtually overnight. the trump administration had struck a deal with the taliban to have u.s. troops leave in mid-2021, an agreement president joe biden argued forced his timing. we were left with a simple decision. either follow through on the commitment made by the last administration and leave afghanistan or say we weren t leaving and commit another tens ....
How to do that without it ending up in the hands of terrorist groups. jake. alex marquardt, thank you. joining us to discuss, republican mike mccaul of texas, the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. i want to start by asking you about your republican colleague, adam kinzinger s tweet, where he said do not let them pretend that they didn t set in motion the afghanistan withdrawal. they did. trump, pompeo, and biden are all to blame. he is suggesting republicans aren t being honest, that this is blame that should belong to not just biden. he s not letting biden off the hook, but trump and pompeo as well. what s your reaction? we had 20 years of failures, under both presidents, both parties. and i think what happened in this case was the evacuation itself. whether you agree to pull out or not, it s the way it was done. that s my biggest complaint. i think the doha agreement, i ....