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concerned about their own people. the state department says you should go to the united nations if you have concerns. no word from the state department on exactly how many americans are still in afghanistan. last week we told you private groups blamed the department for blocking six planes from u.s. citizens from leaving an airport in northern afghanistan. for all we know they may still be stuck there. bill: lawmakers to demand answers on that today. whether they get any we don t know. the first of two days of hearings. the secretary of state is the main player. many blame the entire mess on the biden administration. i think our greatest national security threat at least in the short term is joe biden and our national security apparatus. why did this go so bad? how did he get it so wrong? why didn t he listen to the intelligence community warnings since april and may of this last year? this rosie dream they were going to somehow negotiate a last-minute deal with t ....
everyone as state that was part of that. i m glad that you reinforced as my conversations have the renewed commitment, the strength that is there with our trans clan at this time allies going forward on our mission not just in a region but worldwide to our counter terrorism efforts. so i must say this. this is a period of reassessment i think as we go forward. we have some lessons learned,embarking on a new mission, trying to do the best in that area and so many fronts. there s one relationship that has always troubled me. our relationship with pakistan. you know, pakistan played an active and by so many accounts a negative role in afghan affairs for decades. not just recently but for decades. from the very beginning, they helped branding the name taliban. by 2005 when the taliban was reconstituting in east and south afghanistan and importantly across the border in pakistan and pakistan s isi, enter service intelligence agency, the haqqani network and even recently when ....
their first chance to hold the administration s feet to the fire over what went wrong. as with the secretary said in his opening statement. it s time to end america s longest war. there is no evidence that staying longer would have me the afghan security forces or the afghan government and a more resilient self-sustaining. 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars of support in equipment and training would not suffice, why not another year, another five, another ten? we expect the taliban to make good on its commitment. to uphold the basic rights of afghan people. b-1 republicans are pressing the secretary and one whether any were blocked from leaving. to the state at any point the process black american citizens from leaving afghanistan? no we did not. so your testimony is the state did not block any american citizens? on the contrary. my officer is men and women ran from around the world. yes or no, i just want to clarify. you didn t block anybody? ....
still there in the, quote, thousands. and the nun of unknown, unknown number of afghan allies who helped the u.s. in the war but haven t gotten out yet. secretary of state antoni olympicen telling lawmakers the state department is working on that last number, trying to estimate it. but experts familiar with the situation put that number in the tens of thousands. yet, secretary blinken insisted today the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan was an extraordinary success. blinken was grilled by republicans on the house foreign affairs committee this afternoon. that grilling has continued late into the day. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie starts us off tonight live from capitol hill. good evening, aishah. bret, good evening to you. democrats tore into republican questioning tonight as republicans tore into blinken s decision-making calling for him to resign at one point and even questioning why he didn t show up to this hearing in person. can you tell us where you ....
out. but what? joe man shin and senate budget chair bernie sanders join me to discuss, next. plus, never forget. on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, reflection on the lessons learned. the national security adviser on 9/11, condoleezza rice, ahead. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is remembering america s horror and heroics. yesterday, america marked 20 years since the terror attacks of september 11, 2001, and in some ways remembering the way americans came together two decades ago put a spotlight on how much things have changed. president biden honored those who were killed on 9/11 with trips to new york, the pentagon and shanksville. each week, americans dying, largely preventable deaths from covid-19. republican governors are lining up against president biden s most aggressive push yet to get the pandemic under control. vowing to fight a new vaccine mandate, covering as many as 100 million americans. one model used by the cdc projects ....