Existed inside of the airport at the time in terms of how people were sorted out. i can tell you that we tried very, very hard to get everybody that we possibly could out especially american citizens and siv applicants that had worked with us. we also owed it to our partners to help them get some of their people out as well and they helped us with some security issues and other things while they were there. i m close on time. i will tell you i think it s a question that will linger and that this committee wants answers on. we have p1, p2, sivs left behind and other people should not have been on the manifest seem to have gotten out. i will tell you we ll continue to work to try to get as many out as we can. in the last 48 hours i think we ve brought out an additional
0 of its troops, contractors and non-diplomatic personnel from afghanistan no later than may 1st, 2021. in june 2020 the u.s. troop levels reached 8600. in october president former president trump tweeted we should have a small number of remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas. in november 17, 2020 then acting secretary of defense miller announced we ll implement former president trump east order to continuing repositioning forces from afghanistan. and the 2500 u.s. troops who remain there by january 15th. on january 15th he announced there were 2500 troops left. on january 20th biden became president. 2500 troops were then in afghanistan. on april 14th president biden announced his intention to continue the withdrawal all regular u.s. troops by september 11th. four months after the pre-planned may 1st deadline. on july 2nd italy and germany withdrew their troops on july 17th we have had specific testimony here on what then happened from july 17th on. a
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And political influence campaign that i used in ukraine, and i think that this could work very well in other soviet republics to benefit the putin government. is there anything wrong with that? you know, that s a good question. and i think that, you know, at the time, it depends on some of the legality on what he was doing in washington at the time. there s obviously the foreign agent registration act which is something that would he would have had to disclosed this work if he was actively doing this in washington. if he were lobbying for russia in the united states, assuming this is a foreign government he s lobbying for, that the billionaire in russia are the same? well, so that s actually part of what needs do be looked at i think. that s kind of an open question at this point. you know, foreign agent registration act basically says if you have if you re advancing the interests of a foreign government or working on their behalf, then you have to regist register. at this
Course, is exactly what the committee wants answers on. right. yeah. something tells me they won t be satisfied with that analysis. mike, niceal investigative correspondent for nbc news, thank you. thank you. let s do the trif yeah. i like this one but only because we play the music. which congressman has been known to break into polka songs sung in slovenian at retreats. i would have gotten this wrong going with kucinich. it s democratic representative james oberstar of minnesota. kucinich is a big who doesn t love the kielbasas? in boxes, you are on notice. i m sorry. that is disgusting. guacemole and kielbasa. the magic number of how much to manage e-mail and navigate it all. two words for you. e-mail bankruptcy. can t wait for this one. the white house soup of the