jillian: chaos in portland. protestors smash windows and light fires. the house pass two control bill that is will ultimately make it harder for americans to buy and sell firearms. they don t do anything to prevent gun violence. they rob law abiding citizens of their constitution amendments. good friday morning to you. i hope that you re having a good morning so far. we are grateful that you re joining us on friday morning. hope you have a good weekend ahead. hopefully fun plans but i was asking friends here this morning, what are you doing this weekend, nothing, nothing. we are all hunkered down. we lose an hour sleep on sunday. spring forward. i will keep to myself. i feel guilty but we know plans today, looks like vice president will be selling $1.9 trillion plan which they will officially sign today so they do have plans but immediately joe biden will go right to delaware where he will hang out for a while. he will sell the covid rescue plan to the country alt
2020, where we committed to leave by a date certain. there was a particular provision or a didncondition, if you will about negotiations between the taliban and the afghan government. there was even a date specified, march 10th, 2020, less than two weeks after the signing of the doha agreement. clearly, that condition was not met. by question is, and general milley, you re the only one who overlapped the two administrations, were there any efforts on behalf of the prior administration to enforce that condition of negotiation with the afghan government and the taliban? senator, as i said in my opening remarks, the conditions that were required of the taliban, none of them were met except one. my question is did we attempt to enforce those conditions? did we inform the taliban, for
administration on february 29th, 2020, where we committed to leave by a date certain. there was a particular provision or condition, if you will, about negative sha shats between the taliban and the afghan government. there was each a date specified, march 10th, 2020, less than two weeks after the signing of the doha agreement. clearly that condition was not met. my question is were there any efforts on behalf of the prior administration to enforce that condition of negotiation with the afghan government and the taliban? senator, as i said in my opening remarks, the conditions that were required of the taliban, none of them were met except one. my question is, did we attempt to enforce those conditions?
president trump and his administration on february 29, 2020. we committed to leave by a date certain. there was a particular provision or condition, if you will, about negotiations between the taliban and the afghan government. there was even a date specified march 10th, 2020, less than two weeks after the signing of the doha agreement. clearly that condition was not met. my question is and general milley you are the only one who overlapped the two administrations. were there efforts on behalf of the prior administration to enforce that condition of negotiation with the afghan government and the taliban? senator, as i said in my opening remarks, the conditions that were required of the taliban, none of them were met except one. my question is did we attempt to enforce those
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