yeah, i think it s really clear what happened, nicole, which is that early on in the process, when the president was deciding what timeline we should withdraw on, because of course trump had said, let s get out by may, and biden ultimately decided to decelerate that timeline. the military leadership was saying, let s keep 2,500 troops in afghanistan. the president weighed that. there was an iterative process. there were many meetings, many decisions, and the presint disagreed with that advice, which is his responsibility to do, to weigh it and consider it, and he said, no, we re going to be out by august 31st. break, bak. later, in august, after the fall of kabul, after we were already evacuating tens of thousands of people from the airport in kabul, the president asked his military advisors again, shod we stay longer than august 31st? and ifunanimously, the chairman, general mckenzie,he leaders on the ground said, no, we should n stay and the president followed that advice. i think