and in the months before 9/11, the c.i.a. alarm that an attack on america was coming, and that it would be "spectacular." well, a new cbs news documentary airing tonight takes us inside the c.i.a.'s hunt for al qaeda and osama bin laden. here now a preview. >> a few weeks before september 11, we started noticing that the training camps were basically dead. >> the intelligence just dried up. what was a regular flow of intelligence about a significant al qaeda attack just was gone. >> the c.i.a. knows an attack is coming somewhere. >> there was never intelligence that indicated the attack would be in the united states. >> o'donnell: "race against time: the c.i.a. and 9/11" airs tonight at 8:00, 7:00 central, right here on cbs, and it's available tomorrow on the streaming service paramount+. this september 11 will be the first anniversary with no u.s. troops in afghanistan. and now the taliban is in charge. cbs' charlie d'agata went to afghanistan and has an update on the americans still stuck in the country. >> reporter: 20 yea

the c.i.a.'rterrorism, cofer black, would take the lead and set the tone for what was to come. >> there was a before 9/11, and there was an after 9/11. after 9/11, the gloves come off. >> my last meeting with cofer, he basically said to me, "your job is to find bin laden, kill him, and bring his head back on ice." (laughs): and i said, "well, that's about the clearest, direct, most direct order i've ever received as a c.i.a. officer." and i said, "i'll do my best. we'll, we'll try to get the job done." ♪ ♪ >> narrator: two weeks after the 9/11 attack, the small c.i.a. strike force arrived in afghanistan. they needed to deal with the extremists in charge of the country and harboring bin laden, the taliban. >> my team, seven officers, including myself and three air crew, flew in on the 26th of september. when i began to distribute money, $200,000 here, $250,000 for this, i think it was, they were convinced that we, we were sincere. >> narrator: the american dollars bought the cooperation of the tal

now, the c.i.a.ording to a source familiar, and a c.i.a. spokesperson said they don't comment on specific incidents or specific officers, but said that there is a protocol in place for reports of havana syndrome, including medical attention. i am told that this official did receive medical attention. now, there are some dramatic implications potentially at play here. the c.i.a. director's schedule is never widely shared. it's held quite closely within the u.s. government. so u.s. officials are concerned about how the perpetrator would have known that the c.i.a. director was traveling to india, and how they would have been able to plan and carry out this aggression. now, the u.s. government has not yet said who they believe is behind these mysterious illnesses or how exactly they believe that they are being carried out. there is a government-wide investigation into the matter that is ongoing. christine and laura? >> all right, kylie, thank you for that. >>> a san antonio doctor who wrote a "washington

or the c.i.a. that matter because neither director tenet nor director muler will despite good intentions always be there and we need to tell the congress and the american people how the collection and dissemination of intelligence for the defense of this nation should be handled in the future. >> i think it would be very, very valuable to recommend the creation of joint terrorism task forces in all major cities in the country so that the f.b.i. and the police are working together as partners. when rick ben-veniste asked me that before and i referred to the joint terrorism task force established in the late 1970's, the real benefit of it is that the police officer, police detective and f.b.i. agent are partners. they sit in the same office. they go out and investigate the same case. so it doesn't mean you always get all the information that you want and it doesn't mean that the director doesn't have to break down barriers there but at least you're dealing it at a level of trust and cooperation that

the c.i.a. director in pakistan was in pakistan this week. and he has already sai der sos, bill burns, said you will have fewer intelligence tools if you pull out u.s. troops. so what exactly do we need? and isn't building up in the region the opposite of what the president intended to do, which was look at asia and threats elsewhere? >> so we have china. china is a big problem. it is the big strategic threat facing the united states. we have to pivot to that. but we also have to keep our eye on terrorism. and there is terrorists in a lot of different places in the world. the president is right about that. but i think the place were we are at most at risk from over the long-term, and the intelligence community is saying 12 months, so the long-term is kind of short here, is afghanistan. so al-qaeda could bounce back in as quickly as 12 months in afghanistan if we don't do what we need to do. >> brennan: when i talk to sources about that, to the argument you just laid out, they say, well, why afghanistan? why regroup there? why shouldn't we be

we'll discuss the security threats facing america now with former acting c.i.a. director michael morell. then, as covid's ferocious delta variant continues to spread, president biden issues a sweeping vaccine mandate that may rest on shaky legal ground. >> biden: we've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal as cost all of us. >> brennan: one group that clearly needs protection: children, too young to be vaccinated, who are being hospitalized with covid in record numbers, as the school year gets into full swing. we'll talk with the top pediatrician, dr. james versalovic, and we'll check in with alberto carvalho, the september superintendent of schools in miami-dade county, where at least 13 employees have passed away from coronavirus in just the past month. and we'll get the latest on a timeline for children's covid vaccine from dr. scott gottlieb. it's all just ahead on "face the nation." ♪ >> brennan: good morning. and welcome to "face the nation." yesterday americans marked a somber milestone: 20 years since the september 11th attack,

you may not recollect that the c.i.a.0 tortured years. chris wallace has written a new book about the hunt for the world's most-wanted man. it is published by viacomcbs's shi simon & schuster. >> tonight i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al-qaeda. >> reporter: the 2011military assault on osama bin laden's compound in pakistan was so successful it is possible to forget how difficult the u.s. navy seal mission really was. >> the seal teams that went into this, they didn't think they would make it back? >> that was a surprise to me. and i will tell you that one of the top c.i.a. operatives sat watching the drone view back at langley, at c.i.a. headquarters, fully expected he was going to see the compound just explode like a jerry bruckheimer action movie, that the whole place was just going to blow upment. >> repoup.>> reporter: the seals didn't know if bin laden was even be there, and if he was, he would be wired

secretary clinton, secretary of defense gates, c.i.a.the actual attack, but is not in this photograph. >> he is in jalalabad, afghanistan. >> stephen: and seal team 6 members. what surprised you about this that you didn't know, because so much has been written. >> i think two things. first of all, the man who killed bin laden, was a navy seal, seal team 6, rob o'neill. he. the one who went up to the third floor, goes into the room. bin laden takes one of his three wives who were in the house-- that is an interesting relationship right there-- holds her in front of him, and he shoot three times in the head. and i said to him, "how dangerous did you think this mission was?" and he said, "one-way ticket." and i said, "what do you mean?" "suicide mission. there is no way if bin laden is in the compound, it isn't booby trapped by the time we go in there. we'll be blown up. if that doesn't happen by the time we go up in this three-story villa, if bin laden is there, they'll have body guards. they'll come at us and attack us. we may get bin lad

." >> and he goes, "we may pretend like we're from the c.i.a.dge." he goes, "if he sees the gun --" he goes, "you don't have to wave it around or anything or take it out." >> and he says, "well, you know, gil was in the c.i.a." i was like, "no, i -- i -- i didn't know that." he goes, "oh, yeah--" >> did you believe that? >> no. and then, he pulled out an id that said, "the c.i.a." on top of it. it had gil's picture on it and his name. and then, it had this m -- badge in there that said, "special officer." >> the badge was -- was obviously, you know, from walmart or -- or kmart or something like that. it was definitely a fake. >> reporter: nick says he refused to participate and never heard about the plan to scare tom again. >> you have to wonder what -- what a juror makes out of all this. >> reporter: reporter james nani covered it for the local times herald-record. >> they're hearing about a love triangle, and poisoning, and death and homicide, and a dentist, and emails, and the c.i.a. >> reporter: police later found the fake cia i.d. on gil's

he was also director of the c.i.a.'s counterterrorism center from 2004 to 2006.now a consultant. corey shaoqi worked on the national security council staff, and then at the state department during the george w. bush administration. she's now director of foreign and defense policy studies at the american enterprise institute. and, frank wisner had a many-decades-long career in the foreign service. he was u.s. ambassador to india and to egypt, among other places, in the 1960s. he worked with the u.s. agency for international development in vietnam. he's currently a foreign affairs adviser to the law firm squire patton boggs. and we thank you all three for being back with us at the "newshour." robert grenier, let me start with you. as we mentioned, you were in southwest asia when 9/11 happened. you were there watching this unfold. looking back, did the u.s. make the right moves at that time? >> i think we did. we often talk about the u.s. invasion of afghanistan. in fact, it really wasn't an invasion at all. we only had a few hundred special forces operators and int

some became critical figures in the creation of the c.i.a.really important in american science. >> wertheim: so there's all sorts of impact, years and years and years after the war, from this-- this camp in maryland? >> frey: it was not only the short-term impact on the battlefield-- it was an impact on war crimes. they were critical in terms of arresting the-- some of the major figures, and gathering the evidence for nuremberg. then, shaping the cold-war era, they really played a significant role. >> wertheim: how do you think we should be recalling the ritchie boys? >> frey: i think we look at this group and we see true heroes. we see those who are the greatest of the greatest generation. these are people who made massive contributions. who helped shape what it meant to be american, and who-- in some cases-- gave their lives in service to this country. >> wertheim: this-- this is a remarkable story. why do so few americans know about this? >> frey: because it involves military intelligence, much of it was actually kept secret until the-- th

more than a decade of legal arguments over evidence and allegations the defendants were tortured in c.i.ay, there is still no trial date. ♪ ♪ ♪ to mark the 20th anniversary, a special presentation of the colors at guantanamo bay, where the defendants are held in a military prison not far from the courthouse custom built for their tral. nearly ability00 prisoners have passed through the detention camps. 39 remain today. among them, the five 9/11 defendants, including the self-described architect of the attack, khalid sheikh mohammed, who are accused of war crimes, including conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism, hijacking, and the intentional murder of civilians. in their first court appearance sense the pandemic hit, the men appeared older, some thinner. in the gallery, a hand full of 9/11 family members. >> we are cautiously optimistic, if you want to call it that, cautiously optimistic that there are light at the end of the tunnel. >> reporter: the 9/11 case will also explore who helped the hijackers move seamlessly around the u.s. before the attacks. the biden administration is in the

and douglas london had a 34 year career in c.i.a.'s clandestine service where he focused on afghanistan, south and central asia, the middle east and else where. he is the author of the new book "the recruiter: spying and the lost art of american intelligence." welcome to both of you, mr. rashid, mr. london, thank you very much. ahmed rashid, let me start with you. what does the naming of these individuals say to you about what the taliban has in mind for the future of afghanistan? >> wl, i think, overall, i mean, they have -- they hae not done anything what the western untries have been asking for. it's not a diverse cabinet. it's a very solidly taliban cabinet that they had chosen. the gornment has not taken on board any of the non-taliban politicians in afghanistan. they have chosen not to take any women into the cabinet for the time being. now, this is the government they've set up today. they've said that there will be additions and changes and presumably there will be a full-time government at some state. but it looks at the mmen

. >> brennan: you know, just this week, the deputy c.i.a.members moving back to afghanistan. so it raises the stakes on getting things right. there is a extensive discussion about the presidents involving afghanistan. the chief military advisor to the president said don't do it, don't do it this way. and general austin said the same thing to president biden and he dismissed it. >> he didn't dismiss it. he listened. they all give him credit for listening. but he just wasn't buying it. he just not believe that it was worth the candle to remain in afghanistan. remember, lloyd austin had seen this movie before because he was the commander in iraq during the obama administration, when the obama administration pulled all its combat troops out of iraq, which gave rise to isis. and he was the commander of the u.s. central command when isis came storming out of syria, and we had to basically fight the war of iraq all over. so not only had he seen this movie before, he played a role in it. and he had a great sense of fo foreboding. >> brennan: and tha

after 9/11, they were captured and held in c.i.a. secret prisons, where they were interrogated using tactics that critics called torture, including waterboarding and sleep deprivation. some of these 9/11 family members have died never seeing justice, norah, in their lifetime. >> o'donnell: catherine herridge at guantanamo bay, thank you, catherine. we're going to turn now to our two-year cbs news investigation into the problem of domestic violence in the military. throughout the course of our reporting, we spoke with nearly 40 survivors who reported abuse and who told us the military failed to support and protect them. tonight, we hear from one survivor who explains how the system for reporting these alleged crimes is broken. she says air force leaders, criminal investigators, and evea the military's program created to help all failed her. >> effectively, i have the american dream for the last 20 years. >> reporter: when emily brearley was 24, she moved to the united states from england to continue her education, and in 2016, shen be

. >> reporter: some of that concern, the authors write, came from c.i.a. director gina haspel, who they say feared president trump might try to strike iran in his final few days in office. norah. >> o'donnell: nancy cordes, thank you. and we want to turn now to afghanistan and how the taliban's takeover will impact women and girls. malala yousafzai survived an assassination attempt by the taliban in pakistan for speaking out about education for women. well, earlier, we spoke with the youngest nobel peace prize laureate. what do you think will happen to the gains made by women and girls in the past 20 years? >> there were zero girls in school in the past government of the taliban. right now, so many children were in school, getting their education. and 39% of those children were girls were in school. they may not be able to go to their schools again, and the women and girls i have talked to, a lot of them right now want to be in a safe place, or they want the taliban to actually guarantee them they are safe. >> o'donnell: what are you hearing from your afgh

that is why the c.i.a. the senate, has said that if the taliban takes over, there will be significant risk to the united states. that is where we are now. >> bill: the missile launch that broke late yesterday on sunday out of pyongyang, what did you see about what was different or significant from it, general? >> well, it was a cruise missile lawn: they haven't really done that before. this goes about 1,000 miles. some of ours go considerably greater distances than that. it can be nuclearized. most people don't believe north korea yet has developed the technology to weaponize a much smaller nuclear round to put it on the head of a missile. but certainly that's something that they are working on. this is largely about south korea and japan particularly south korea who has been upgunning in long-range missiles and missile defense in the last number of years. they completed an exercise with the united states military and south korea military and this is probably in response to that and also in conjunction with

. >> the c.i.a.ieve for years that bin laden was hold up in a cave somewhere in a remote area of the border. if he turns out to be in pakistan, then the c.i.a. has been wrong about everything. >> it was a clear indication that every lead, possible lead we had on bin laden for over 10 years led nowhere. and a lot of it was now based on speculation that somehow he was living in a cave. >> dana: what else can people learn about bin laden and on your special fox nation? >> of course, it is based on my book countdown bin laden, which i'm proud to say is now a best seller on amazon and i hope people will buy it. we have an hour special on fox news channel 10:00 p.m. eastern sunday night and of course it will be on fox nation. they will learn a lot. not everything they'll learn in the book but we talk to panetta, mcgraven, donlin and rob o'neill who actually killed bin laden. both in the book and the documentary i said to him how dangerous did you think this mission was to go into pakistan? he said one way

there is now new reporting from the "new york post" that shows the c.i.a.empting to alert the military to the fact that there were likely kids in the car. unfortunately it seems the hell fire missile was already fired. within the fog of that moment somebody within our intelligence services had a sense that there were likely a lot of kids in that vehicle. even if there was an isis terrorist in there per se. standing at a podium a few days later and saying this is a righteous strike means you are ignoring a certain part of the narrative you may have known at that moment. milley potentially misrepresenting something he should have known at the very least but didn't. in order to have an effective strike you need to know what it is and where it is and we thought we knew what it was, toyota corolla like finding a needle in a hay stack. we didn't know who. when you don't have human intelligence or relying on the taliban, it means all you have is over the horizon drone surveillance. they followed this car for eight hours and think it stopped at an isis safe house.

it appearance they are looking to meet group of c.i.a. officers august 27th, 2010 with leon panetta. they have news for him. what is the news exactly? how might we want to be paying attention to what was playing out then on the ground in pakistan and what we know to be happening around the world now? >> well, the news, the lead is that they have tracked a person that they believe was a -- they believe bin laden is in a cave between afghanistan and pakistan. if he is in this big million dollar compound, a fortress in pakistan where the pakistan west point is, then everything we thought was wrong and basically in the book we try to take you on an exciting ride as they try to get the information as to whether bin laden is there, then the white house, the situation room discussing it, then the seals on the helicopter headed to the compound. they think it is a suicide mission. if bin laden is there. and they don't know. they think none are coming back alive. you think you know the end of the story. you read this story the last 100 pages you ar

leader to come to kabul and meet with the taliban was the head of pakistan's isa, their version of the c.i.aties. >> harris: i'm just kind of watching that pakistan connection and it is such an important one to watch. i was looking at that over the weekend saying there is air power now. but isn't it a pakistani national who now is second in command? isn't that the ground that people were allowed to kind of nest if you will in their terrorist ways? >> the way to understand it. it is not a pakistani national but an afghan in charge but received tremendous funding for many years from pakistan and isi. what's important and every u.s. military commander going back for the last 20 years has been frustrated by the u.s. government's unwilling pakistan for funding the attacks on u.s. troops over the years. that is coming into the forefront as the pakistan and taliban unite with this new government, which is by far from democratic. >> harris: we're all perched to see what the biden administration will do next. jennifer griffin, thank you very much. for more on the new afghan interim government i want

there were spotters that helped them including those from the c.i.a. they chose who to let in all being done with the fear that suicide bombers would manage to get onto the tarmac. >> quite a feet. joining me now is congressman andy biggs member of the house oversight and judiciary committees. you are demanding answers about the vetting process. jennifer griffin was on the ground in europe taking a look at how all of this is being done. talking to the chairman of the joint chiefs. what do you think about that report? does it put your mind at ease at all where this vetting process is concerned? >> well, martha, thank you for having me. you know, we knew there was vetting process going on with fingerprint and biometrics, etc. but what we don't know is what we don't know. that is what were these folks doing in afghanistan? so right now the vast majority of people coming in as refugees are coming in on a parole. not sivs, special interest visa. the vast majority are coming in that homeland security mayorkas is able to use. we've asked for specifics. there

the c.i.a. pulled out of there seven weeks ago. i have quadruply performed thisi high ranking sources. they pulled out. they were not shy in their daily assessments in telling biden. then the question is if biden knew why, did he do this? >> sean, you're exactly right. i'm flooded with former intel officials, current intel officials, state department foreign service officers, career foreign service officers contacting me just complaining about the chaos. i'm looking into one issue involving how we're vetting refugees. i'm not able to go forward and make some claims yet, but there are quite a few claims going on in germany where we have a lot of refugees trying to rush through the process, and i want to get this more firmed up and maybe we'll have more for you. but, you know, everybody outside of washington, d.c. really understands what's at stake here. we've got chaos going on. joe biden himself said 90% of the americans were rescued. the rest of us in america say why did you leave 10%? only in washington, d.c. does 90% work. you'v

it's a third world -- and we need the c.i.a., by the way, to brief the american people, brief congressout who is funding, who is bringing the tens of thousands of haitians in mexico to the border. somebody is funding a big bill. who is knit >> how does the outside world look at this border crisis that the u.s. is having. do they take much of it? >> yes. one of the great examples, for example, they just announced my friends and family are allowed to come to america but if you cross the river -- it's strange why they are allowing them to get ahead of them and coming out about the head of the groups, oh, they weren't using whips and he said today, it was outrageous, using whips. the whole thing is a mess and i don't think anyone knows what's going on. >> we did have judd on last night. he said it was about training. you're trained to swing the reins to get people away from the horse for their own protection because they don't want people to be stampeded on. that debate will continue i'm quite sure. thank you both. . >> thanks. >> thanks. >> break tonight, not far from me, a female police

he ignored the c.i.a.hite paper telling us that bin laden would attack us using airplanes and two, bush attacked the wrong country afghanistan and the retribution. another tweet that says what is the legacy of 9/11? 9/11 was a dry run that taught us that when fear is stoked, we will give up rights and even scarier reality. they learned how to sell a lie and trump learned a lot repeat the lie often enough and those who want to believe it as real will. another tweet. the legacy of 9/11 -- u.s. should not become entangled in senseless wars, especially in the middle east. u.s. invaded and occupied iraq, a country that did not attack the u.s. cost and consequences of iraq, afghanistan and blood and treasure were colossal foreign policy blunder. and one last tweet. no revenge attacks by the families of the 40,000 people we killed after 9/11. we search for invisible boogiemen for profits for arms dealers. maybe we should have given bace a chance after 9/11. we want to know what you think the legacy of 9/11 is. le

cash, technical assistance and advice from the c.i.a. on drawing russian mercenaries in.ight people and then luring them out of russia required an elaborate deception. so our former ukrainian military intelligence sources told us they set about creating a fake private military company with its own russian language website. on it, they advertise jobs like one lucrative contract, $5,000 a month to protect oil facilities in venezuela. that was the bait. we're told hundreds of russian mercenaries actually took it. all they had to do, according to our sources, was prove who they were and where they fought. >> translator: we started to call them and say, hey, man. okay. tell me something about yourself. maybe you are not really a fighter. maybe you are a plumber or something like that. and then they started to reveal things about themselves, sending us documents, military ids and proof of where they fought. and we are like, bingo. we can use that. >> reporter: they're sending you evid

leon panetta, president obama's c.i.a.tor says the taliban has not changed. >> it's clear to me that they are going to continue to support al qaeda and allow al qaeda to basically continue to develop and expand -- and i think they will plan additional attacks on our country as well as elsewhere. >> harris: meanwhile axios reporting on a phone call last month between the president's national security team and senators from both political parties. the administration reportedly did not offer a clear counter terrorism plan. and that's raising some big questions about its so-called over e horizon strategy. senator mcconnell reportedly asked this. what are your plans to conduct the war on terrorism even though we seem to have given up the terrorists have not? national security official responded, quote, what's left of al qaeda does not pose an imminent threat to the homeland. we have repositioned, we maintain strike air force and authorities to do so. pete hegseth, a veteran of two wars, iraq and afghanistan. first of all over t

they saw this as a danger to their security by taking away the military bases and the c.i.a.ning posts. so we have weakened nato as a result of this. more so than putin has been able to do is my frustration. >> julie: reaction to your next story. audio of a phone call between president biden and afghan counterpart before the taliban seized control. the president is framing the issue as a matter of optics saying i need not tell you the perception around the world and parts of afghanistan i believe is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the taliban and there is a need whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture. what should we make of this report which clearly shows biden pressured ghani to change the perception that things are not going well in the taliban fight? >> yeah, i mean, this is a very revealing conversation and it certainly points to the fact that the president was involved in this one and also some of our other national security leaders including the chairman of the joint chiefs i believe in a subsequent convers

that is the main point of contact, along with the c.i.a.e things the united states government feels it needs to say to the taliban and hearing what they have to say in response. now, all week we have been hearing reports of these exceptionally brave women taking to the streets in afghanistan and demanding that their new taliban rulers respect their rights. one of those protests yesterday in kabul was suppressed with violence. a group of women near the presidential palace were confronted by a group of taliban special forces. they fired their guns in the air. they shot tear gas at these women. and they used rifle butts to beat them. i want you to take a list tone one woman. her name is frahat. she explains why she felt it was so important to go to these protests despite knowing the dangers. take a listen. >> the women who aren't able to speak anyone, i came outside to talk with taliban and to help women that didn't go to work, go to school and want to be "the voice" of them. >> reporter: now, one key issue between the u.s. and the taliban is

and i thought i would go into the c.i.a. to do that. i wanted to go into the military. i couldn't, because i was gay, courtesy of bill clinton. we had "don't ask, don't tell." i wanted to tell, i wanted to be asked. i started my career at the "washington post." i was walking out of an interview for a book. was working on an aol, my first book on aol. it was a beautiful day in new york. and i waed out and i thought, i'm aving the "washington post." i'm going to write about the internet like this. this is going to be so big. this internet thing, this was super early in the 1990s. you could see how bad it could go and you could see how good it could go. i love tech for its ability to transform people's lives in really positive ways. i love tech and i hate what they've done to it. obviously our history is littered with powerful people, make decisions for people who are unelected, but in this case, they can see every bit of your life. now it happens that apple is very good on privacy, but what if it wasn't? my favorite interview was with elon musk. i met him when he was a no

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secretary austin, is it true the suicide bomber who attacked the kabul airport on august 23 was a c.i.a. prisoner at the bagram air base who the taliban released after biden's administration left bagram in july? >> let me just say a couple of things. first on why the president selected me or nominated me to be his secretary of defense, you would have to certainly go back to the president and ask him specifically why he did that. but it wasn't i'm sure solely based upon my oversight of the evacuation of iraq. i would point there is a government in iraq right now that is holding elections. the united states military is in iraq. >> could you answer my question? was suicide bomber -- >> i'll take your question for the record. >> thank you, mr. chair. i don't see eye-to-eye with many generals and certainly general milley and i have had disagreements. i think what was said earlier was -- accuse a member of the military they would tip off our opposition in any way and i would like to give general milley an opportunity to respond to that if he wants. if not i'll continue with my questions. >> a

and my amendment will begin this process by direct inthe c.i.a. to our national security, economic security and public health as well as recommend necessary actions. it is my goal along with my colleagues that this amendment will prevent another supply chain crisis. i urge support of these two amendments and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington continue to reserve? mr. rogers: i yield to the retired germ officer, mr. perry of pennsylvania. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized mr. perry: i interviews this amendment combatting ccp dictates. on september # 1, china began to demand that specific vessel before the maritime claims. it includes the name and number, the satellite number and recent locations and cargo, vessels needed to nuclear vessels and as well as any vessel the c.c.p. deems to be a threat which is vague . the united states united states has repeated said we reject claims made by china within the so-called 10-line or whatever they want to call it as virtually all of those claims are both i

according to the press, just this morning the deputy director of the c.i.a. acknowledged they are seeing al qaeda terrorists flowing back into afghanistan and our intelligence capabilities are already diminished. but there's a larger pattern of broken promises of the president said everyone hob wanted to get out -- who wanted to get out would be able to do so. that we would leave no one behind. instead we left americans and vulnerable afghans behind. secretary blinken said that the taliban committed to allow afghans and americans back to the airport. instead we know that americans and afghans were prevented from getting to the airport. many still cannot leave. the administration said we'd have tremendous leverage over the taliban. that they would need international recognition and funding. yet the taliban doesn't seem to be terribly concerned with global p.r. the administration said they would hold the taliban accountable. they haven't. the administration seems to believe the taliban would establish an inclusive and representational government. look, we're ta

let's get reaction from a former c.i.a. senior intelligence officer. the type of people who have paperwork, who are not being allowed to leave by the taliban and the administration says the taliban says they'll let 200 out of a flight out of kabul today. should we believe them? >> i think there is reason to be skeptical. first of all, we should hope this happens and so using the good efforts of our allies, the qatary. you saw the formation of the new taliban government. these are old hard liners. i think there is reason for skepticism. one key point is that while we're talking about these 200 americans and others, there are tens of thousands of our afghan allies still trapped and something that myself and others are really concerned about. >> dana: i would love to hear more about that because one of the things president biden promised is that america was back and that our allies were going to be happier having a biden administration there but i think you are right. this story doesn't get enough attention how many of our allies' people are there because

the military will work as hard as they can and so will the c.i.a. but the challenge is, the watch of force every single day in terms of what it's doing without having any physical presence there is enormously challenging. and that will be -- i believe we'll always have the capability to strike and strike effectively, but the issue is actionable intelligence. and we may find ourselves in the not too distant future actually having to bring in a ground force to take down a significant element of an organization that may not be induced by air power alone. that we may have to put in a combination of ground and air, which we have done throughout our 20-year experience there. and then finally, i think what the senator is talking about at some future point there may be an occupation again, at least of certain parts of afghanistan, by our forces to be able to defeat a terrorist organization which is threatening the united states. that is all in the future with some degree of certainty if afghanistan becomes what we believe it will be, and that is a growing e

they don't want to see the c.i.a. are going to have to do that. >> dana: good luck with the book. pick it up. >> trace: faa is seeking help from the airlines for unruly passengers. 3200 mask-related complaints this year alone. violations have continued despite a 0 tolerance policy. the faa giving carriers a week to report back with solutions and you see the majority of those are what you and dr. gottlieb were talking about. mask violations because they get confusing guidance. airlines want you to have them if you are fully vaccinated and remind you over and over again and people get frustrated. >> dana: i'm so scared for this to happen on one of my flights coming up. everyone be nice. follow the rules but also the rules need to be clear. >> trace: and they're not. >> dana: president biden getting a dose of critical coverage from the mainstream media. how long will that last? howie kurtz is on deck. ♪♪♪ t newshomeowners. newday's refi rate is the lowest in their history. two and a quarter percent. just 2.48 apr. one ca

number two, the c.i.a.g at intel summit, they are seeing al qaida moving into afghanistan, let alone al qaida fighters who are there. you heard interchanges with the senators about the hakani network, the interior minister inside the taliban government that we're dealing with currently and the policy is that the hope the taliban let's all the people go, a number we can't get out of the administration. >> sandra: some senators went beyond calling this incompetence in the form of rand paul labeling just actions in afghanistan, senator ron johnson, bret, compared afghanistan withdrawal to the border crisis, bringing it back home to domestic policies. slamming what he called detachment from reality. it is really interesting to see him tie in some administration's actions and policies what we saw play out in afghanistan. >> bret: yeah, i think they are going to competence and ability to deal with reality on the ground versus what the admip stragz is -- administration is saying. you dislocated your shoulder tryin

about the fact what you said in terms of taking responsibility is something that leon panetta, former c.i.aid yesterday as well. did you hear any of that yesterday? >> no, dana. thanks for having me on the show. it was pretty disturbing to hear antony blinken blame anybody but themselves for so many errors. i pointed out many. the sheer fact they wouldn't own any speaks volumes about this administration. >> bill: you said repeatedly we inherited a deadline, we did not inherit a plan. >> it is just song and dance. the trump administration wanted out by november of last year and delayed the withdrawal themselves. in a couple occasions bombed the taliban back into compliance. here the taliban from the beginning was breaking the agreement and in fact the overall agreement was supposed to be a power sharing agreement. so they attempt to overthrow and effectively do so overthrow their partner that they are supposed to be in a power sharing agreement and joe biden and blinken did nothing. so it is on them. >> bill: thank you for your time. this hearing will be underway now and we want to get in on

came up with in the trump administration and everybody agreed, intelligence community agreed, the c.i.a. agreed, the department of defense agreed, the state department agreed to it. everybody had the 2500 number and that was fixed in everybody's mind, number consistent from the trump administration to the biden administration and we told president trump we would hold at that number until the agreements were fulfilled in the doha agreement. the first agreement in the doha agreement, there would be successful negotiations between the taliban and the ghani government to have a government of reconciliation. everybody keeps talking about the doha agreement, the doha agreement meant we were not going to move until all conditions were met that were put forth in the agreement. we were not leaving and one may date was not a date certain, that was a forcing function to get there. on the 3rd of march, president trump picked up the phone and called perarter, and told him that. i was in the oval office and heard what he said. if there is ability, curelease the transcript and see what the president t

that intelligence was disseminated in the president's and the vice president, the dni, director of c.i.aecretary of defense and others. that was significant and it was a lot of it. it wasn't just a singular report. i'll be happy to share that with you and go over with you line by line and it was significant and concerning to the point where secretary of defense esper, admiral davidson and myself along with others had conversations about it and i was directed by then secretary of defense esper first he directed his assistant secretary of defense for asia pacific defense to make calls and then me. this is all done with oversight and i tried to lay that out in the memoranda and time line that you can use. >> we'll have to leave it at that. >> happy to take it up at a later today. >> mr. courtney. >> thank you to the witnesses for your service and testimony today. one comment mr. chairman before questions over the last month including yesterday's senate hearing we heard a lot that the u.s. had lost credibility with its allies. last week we saw firsthand in washington how mistaken that claim

he ignored the c.i.a.hite paper telling us that bin laden would attack us using airplanes and two, bush attacked the wrong country afghanistan and the retribution. another tweet that says what is the legacy of 9/11? 9/11 was a dry run that taught us that when fear is stoked, we will give up rights and even scarier reality. they learned how to sell a lie and trump learned a lot repeat the lie often enough and those who want to believe it as real will. another tweet. the legacy of 9/11 -- u.s. should not become entangled in senseless wars, especially in the middle east. u.s. invaded and occupied iraq, a country that did not attack the u.s. cost and consequences of iraq, afghanistan and blood and treasure were colossal foreign policy blunder. and one last tweet. no revenge attacks by the families of the 40,000 people we killed after 9/11. we search for invisible boogiemen for profits for arms dealers. maybe we should have given bace a chance after 9/11. we want to know what you think the legacy of 9/11 is. le