wish for his daughter. he and his wife are now adjusting to their new life in jacksonville. grateful now that they re safe. the kind of good news story that we all need on this friday, martha. martha: ginfer, i m so glad you were able to start the ball rolling what a wonderful story. carol is a remarkable person. so michael waltz is a former green beret commander and served multiple tours in afghanistan. he has a deep personal connection to these stories. congressman, great to have you with us and share that story with our viewers. we ve had a lot of tough stories, people that didn t get out. this is a good one. right. so proud of my hometown, jacksonville, florida, to opening their arms and opening their great city to our allies. i think every american was just
same information. i think what haugen did was she was a vehicle for this information and the explosive wall street journal reporting just one at a time over and over and over really got at sort of the astronomical size of the problem. in fact, i think haugen actually testified that facebook puts astronomical profits before people. it s just a story that we ve heard time and time again. i think the wall street journal or the washington post story, which you highlighted, i m glad that you did because it s important to notice and to say that really good people like haugen and like others with civic integrity, like, all through the company, good people work at facebook, smart people, smart people who want to change the world for the better. facebook used to be a pretty closed company where the private things on these platforms, the private meetings from zuckerberg that were companywide just didn t get out. now that has all changed as stories being told by employees
don t know much about a lot of them and yet we know a lot about people that were not brought back to the united states. and they re really upset. i know you know that. i think that you re seeing the reflection of that in the elected representatives. and i look forward to that closed session as well, general. to learn more about august 26th. thank you, senator manchin, please. thank you, i appreciate all of you. i m having a hard time, i remember vietnam very well, i was in line an a injury prevented that from happening. i can t explain to my generation and others how we got in this and didn t get out. we didn t learn from vietnam.
0 why wasn t action taken to secure the kabul airport or retake bagram then? thank you, senator. you re right, the tempo had picked up significantly, yet the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie routinely engaged the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and further stiffen their defenses, to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. i don t mean to interrupt you, but my time is lapsing. this gets to the overestimation, i think the overly optimistic assessment, because even as late as july you re still encouraging the afghan special forces, you re expecting the ghani government to remain. in december of 2019, the washington post reported that the u.s. military commanders privately express
we got rid of all of them. excuse me, the translators we didn t get out. among other people in an important position, i detonated global terrorist by washington who we have on a wanted list for $10 million, so we couldn t get that glossy had shot from so we were forced to use the mug shot we had up. how s that for inclusive? it is absolutely ridiculous and that speaks of the relationship we ve had with pakistan. when we negotiate from a position of weakness it only lines the pockets of corrupt governments and lobbyists in washington, d.c. people can hide out in the pakistani border, kidnap americans, run terrorism operations, seek sanctuary with people who are providing u.s. aid to even when they get caught red-handed hosting bin laden there, we continue to pour usaid into them. our permanent ruling class is an absolute disgrace to all of the lives that have been lost over there. that s exactly what i am running for congress, to bring accountability to our permanent ruling class. tha