reporter: congresswoman liz cheney came to his defense. for any american to question your loyalty to our nation is despicable i want to apologize for those members of this committee who have done so. reporter: general milley s response when he resigned, i serve at the pleasure of the president. courtney, thank you. new tonight our first look inside haiti as thousands of migrants who were in that camp in texas are returned to their country. many back for the first time in years. nbc s jacob soboroff is there. reporter: this plane the first of four to arrive in port of prince today carrying haitian migrants the busiest day yet for the biden administration once they arrive at this airport, many of them are confused many are asking why they re here in the first place the next stop is this processing center, run by the united nations which expects by the end of today as many as 6,000 haitians who have been returned since september 19th on this bus right here are migrants just ta
slaughtered right now as we speak with our weapons. with our damn equipment our allies are being slaughtered. reporter: yesterday milley and mckenzie contradicted president biden after the president claimed none of his military advisers recommended 2,500 troops stay in afghanistan to avoid a tall ban takeover no. no one said that to me that i can recall i recommended we maintained 2,500 troops in afghanistan. reporter: austin was pressed about it today. what did the president know did he forget what was told to him or is he not being truthful i view that as an inappropriate question. reporter: milley was challenged about a phone call who we told, if we re going to attack, i m going to call you ahead of time. i think you articulating that, that you would tell him, you would give him a call, i think is worthy of your resignation. i would not tip off any enemy to any kind of surprise thing we were going to do
as you appropriately are recognizing that came out of that hearing was the fact that the military advice the president received was indeed to stay there with a minimal modest force. imperfect as it is, to maintain the status quo so the taliban could not take over even though the government could not defeat the taliban, eventually get some kind of negotiated settlement. but don t pull out because it could lead to this disaster that we have that s now confronting us. dana: general, yesterday milley was asked by senator tom cotton why he didn t resign given that his advice was rejected by the commander-in-chief. what did you think of his answer saying it was for him to stay, you don t resign just because of that? well, i think that s a fair statement. these are personal choices to be made and his choice was to stay. i think when general mattis as an example was secretary of
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