ken duckworth. he's the chief medical officer over at the national alliance on mental illness.much for being here. >> gio, thank you for taking an interest in this critical topic. >> listen, it has been such a challenging year to say the least, but it has really brought the issue of mental health into the spotlight, hasn't it? >> this is the silver lining of the pandemic, which is, we're talking about mental health in ways that we have never talked about before. >> absolutely, are there any differences you're seeing in where we are this time of year as opposed to last year? >> good question. we're still facing uncertainty, we're still facing variables that are difficult to discern, none of us like the unknown. and so i think -- the way i think about this, teenagers and kids have disproportionately been impacted by this, gio, and so it's important to learn what worked for them last year. remember, kids are in a stage of life where they have to get out in the world, try things, learn things, find an identity, in a way this entire endeavor has been the hardest on young people. kee

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i like senator duckworth's po posal that we have a commission to examine. this i think this is our sixth hearing on afghanistan in several month, i've had three or four in the intelligence che. we had zero hearings i can recall on the doha agreement which was really the heart of the departure from afghanistan so the umbrage and outrage that's happened since this summer rings a little hollow for me because there was no umbrage or outrage when the former administration made an agreement with the taliban, unconditional, really, essentially, to get our troops out by a certain date which was may 1 of 2021, not august 31. so with that, i yield. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being here today as we continue to examine the repercussions of president biden's disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. and the aban conditionment of american citizens to the taliban. sit true the president said we wouldn't leave americans behind. secretary kahl: we have not left americans behind, they continue to get out. >> we left americans behind. secretary kahl: we did not l

secretary austin, my colleague, senator duckworth mentioned the idea of an independent commission to evaluate what happened before, during and after the war in afghanistan, so secretary austin, are you open to such an effort? >> senator, i will always -- as you would expect, always cooperate with my oversight committee. >> yes, because i, for one, very much agree that this is a 20-year war, and there are four presidents involved, and i would like to ensure that there's some lessons learned from a 20-year forever war. at the same time, i feel the republicans have made a total about-face, a u-turn regarding the war. i thought they wanted the war to end, and they were very supportive with president trump when he made the deal with the taliban to get out, so there's that, and clearly there are lessons to be learned in terms of the evacuation, but i think the decision to get us out of this forever war was a good one. secretary austin, the president, i want to move to a completely different topic. the president has touted the afghanistan pullout as necessary to free up time and money to de

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turns out through carrie's research, excellent job on her part, that she found out that senator duckworth in 2018 and 2019 put forward a bill to increase those tax credits and deductions, but, you know, it was under the trump administration, so those kind of died on the floor. so it's good to know that we have, you know, senators at the federal level who are also thinking about this and so looking to draft a resolution to help our local government encouraging our state -- our federal officials to continue to support and maybe encourage senator duckworth to reintroduce that bill. so with that, i'm happy to take any questions and i will leave it there. >> vice president zouzounis: thank you, director. commissioners, do we have any questions for director dick endrizzi? commissioner huie. >> commissioner huie: that was a lot. thank you very much. that was a lot to digest. i am wondering in terms of formula retail, what in the past, how has this mission gone about to explore -- like, was there a sub committee. i feel like this was a huge topic like you were saying in terms of all the different

chairman. >> senator duckworth. >> thank you mr. chairman. the afghan study proposal with the backing of a number of my colleagues. i'm also looking forward to the national defense authorization act and then to confirm the support of the independent commission because it's just too important to get wrong. we'll fail to understand the cause of failure but if we don't look at the role of all government agencies involved and we have to start with julia nonpartisan independent body keep generations from repeating past mistakes we don't resource the commission appropriately and we went to look like we are taking action but not the work thoroughly that we waste everyone's time even more convinced we will need a nonpartisan independent commission for the entire scope of the wars in afghanistan thank you for your support for independent commission. can you please elaborate on these exercises and why they are not sufficient and with the independent commission looking across government agencies what about strategic planners and policymakers quick. >> t

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turns out through carrie's research, excellent job on her part, that she found out that senator duckworth in 2018 and 2019 put forward a bill to increase those tax credits and deductions, but, you know, it was under the trump administration, so those kind of died on the floor. so it's good to know that we have, you know, senators at the federal level who are also thinking about this and so looking to draft a resolution to help our local government encouraging our state -- our federal officials to continue to support and maybe encourage senator duckworth to reintroduce that bill. so with that, i'm happy to take any questions and i will leave it there. >> vice president zouzounis: thank you, director. commissioners, do we have any questions for director dick endrizzi? commissioner huie. >> commissioner huie: that was a lot. thank you very much. that was a lot to digest. i am wondering in terms of formula retail, what in the past, how has this mission gone about to explore -- like, was there a sub committee. i feel like this was a huge topic like you were saying in terms of all the different

thank you, senator duckworth. me recognize senator scott, please. >> thank you, chairman peters-- i mean, chairman reed. general mingus, given that the president committed to evacuate all americans before our military would leave, would you say a successful evaluation would have included all americans being evacuated before our troops left? >> defining success is hard and i know this has been talked about and debated in what the president said with the decision with the recommendation for the military to leave. historically we've gone back and looked and i'm not sure there is an example where we've done where we've brought all the american citizens out of a given country so given the remote nature of afghanistan and the various locations that the american citizens, i'm not even sure it's a reasonable expectation that we could have got 100% out before the 31st. >> but the president did commit that we were going to get all of the american citizens out before we would remove troops. do you think it should be the poli

for more on this debate around for measure on this debate, we're joined by tammy duckworth.me to "the daily show." >> thank you for having me. >> trevor: this is a topic i know is near and dear to your heart. not not only a combat veteran but a combat veteran with a disability, and you went into the capitol building that is not designed for people with disabilities. what do you think are some of the issues still standing in the way of disabled people in america being able to get a fair wage and being able to get a job that can sustain them, you know, to live? >> with everything from prejudice that they're going to be more expensive to employ, or that you're going to have to do something with your workplace to accommodate somebody with a disability, and that's going to cost too much money, that's really-- those are really false arguments. in fact, studies show that when a disabled person lands a job, they become very loyal, and they stay in those jobs for far longer than anybody else. there's far less turnover with persons with disabilities. and they make really good, product

i'm out of >> next senator duckworth willbe participating remotely. >> thank you madam chair.t to thank you for being here and i invite illinois which illinois was the union court during the war and another community of color that is struggling he could there. myinternational one.olleagues on the commerce committee i also armed services committee in services committee and i'm particularly int with our partners in new operations exercise there were two cutters taken to vietnam c and many other nations pacific you partnerships helps with their readiness to engage in the indo pacific region? >> senator absolutely and thank you very question thank you for your service.we we5c complementary roles in how we bring naval and big part of that was oriented around the indo pacific part of the have the support in the pacific with and where -- she exercise mo eight for in late march and exercise with coast gd . enforcement agenciend the equivalent of the coast guard but we could do a lot of summe with monroe but thtralians and multi-auaval forces working with the air for region outside of

. >> on the same program a few weeks ago i interviewed senatord duckworth and encourage audience, sheto this military and intelligence strategy and exactly what we are talking about and one thing she raised concerns about was a potential invasion of taiwan given the technology there. how concerned are you? >> something we watch very carefully, if you are at the end up pacific command in hawaii and watching day-to-day, to camp down any such potential, we have good relations with taiwan and commitment to taiwan and during since the 1970s. central is helping taiwanese defense capabilities, that's important, the taiwanese and their ability to defend t themselveses is a game changer n terms of that calculus for china so that is an area we want a lot of focus on as well as our own and with allies and partners, our own credible demonstration of interest and advanced economic and about the trip, semiconductor industry, that is sort of business but also taiwanese people have demonstrated the ability to have democracy and we have an interest in ensuring democracies can flourish. primarily throu

nina: so on the same program just a few weeks i interviewed senator duckworth, and i encourage my audience to watch this. she went a lot into the military and intelligence strategy and exactly what we're talking about. one of the things she raised concerns about was a potential invasion of taiwan given the technology there. how concerned are you? secretary hicks: something we watch very carefully. if you're out at the indo-pacific command in hawaii, you're watching it day-to-day, we have a significant amount of capability forward in the region to tamp down any such potential. we have good relations, of course, with taiwan. we have commitments to taiwan that are enduring since the 1970's. and central to that is helping the taiwanese with their self-defense capabilities. that's really important. the taiwanese, their ability to defend themselves effectively as a game changer in terms of that deterrent calculus for china. and so that's an area we want to have a lot of focus on as well as our own and as i said before, our allies and partners, our credible demonstration of interest and, frankly,

senator duckworth? >> i just wanted to say thank you. i just received a letter this morning in response to a letter i had written to you and secretary blinken asking about the process of certifying that somebody did work for the dod as a contractor. i to want to say the response is a good one. i'll give you a couple minutes to talk about, but it seems you have reviewed over 7800 employment records and matched over 3,400 of those applicants. would you like to talk about the operation a little bit? >> only to say that i mentioned earlier that when this question came up, this is important to us. we think we have to do everything we can to shorten the amount of time that it takes for somebody who has worked with us before to be able to verify that they have worked with us 37 we're going to continue to work on this and one of my major direct rats is focused on this. and we'll work with the committee on this if you have further requirements. but thank you for your support in this regard. >> thank you. i know each one of us probably does have f

turns out through carrie's research, excellent job on her part, that she found out that senator duckworth18 and 2019 put forward a bill to increase those tax credits and deductions, but, you know, it was under the trump administration, so those kind of died on the floor. so it's good to know that we have, you know, senators at the federal level who are also thinking about this and so looking to draft a resolution to help our local government encouraging our state -- our federal officials to continue to support and maybe encourage senator duckworth to reintroduce that bill. so with that, i'm happy to take any questions and i will leave it there. >> vice president zouzounis: thank you, director. commissioners, do we have any questions for director dick endrizzi? commissioner huie. >> commissioner huie: that was a lot. thank you very much. that was a lot to digest. i am wondering in terms of formula retail, what in the past, how has this mission gone about to explore -- like, was there a sub committee. i feel like this was a huge topic like you were saying in terms of all the different polic

. >> senator duckworth will participate remotely. >>>> looking for places and all of my communities of color that a major union port with that community of color that they could use the jrotc but my first question is international what the number of my colleagues on the commerce committee the armed services committee and with the coast guard engagement in the indo pacific region and given to creditors and one given to c sri lanka and other nations in the indo pacific. so can you explain how that strengthens our nation's readiness with the indo pacific region? >> thank you for your question and thank you for your service. so back in with the maritime advantage to have those unique complementary roles and for those challenges and a big part of that was oriented around the endo pacific. so please support the indo pacific with national security cutters on occasion that is wrapping of a multi- month deployment the mla with taiwan and to exercise with the japanese coast guard and self-defense labeled forces. we work with the lesion and that is equivalent to the coast guard so we can do a lot

guest: i'm still looking at tammy duckworth's bill. we are looking for options on the committee.ommittees can form taskforces. there are independent commissions. we absolutely have to take a deep dive on this. we have to make sure we're doing the postmortem to learn the lessons. not just for history. this is not a lesson in writing the history textbook. it's about looking forward. we have to learn how we can realign the war powers and take them back in congress and have better conversations about the use of force and how we engage around the world. whether or not nationbuilding is an exercise we should do in the future and take that mission on. and the training of forward militaries. we do this in dozens of places right now as were having this conversation. we are finding it. we have personnel overseas training. are we good at this? do we know how to do it? that's a question we have to answer. national security relies on that. men and women are conducting the mission. we have to figure out what went wrong and what we could do better. this is not a two week or two month deep dive.

secretary. >> thank you senator duckworth. >> thank you mr. chairman.entleman why would you as a sitting chairman of the joint chiefsni of staff talked reportr is writingen a book about a prir demonstrations and why would that be part of your job description? >> as senator blackburn said earlier i deal with the media routinely three or four times a week at talked to the media whether it's looks and we have a lot of media here.he i think it's very important to make sure senior officials talk in its various forms to explain what we are doing. >> you are talking about what happened in the past. why did you do that? what's the upside to the american public? i think it's sensitive information. you have a full-time job and you talk about the prior administration i don't get it. the prior administrative why would you do that? >> i think it is important to make sure the american people are transparent with what our government does. it's nothing more come to get in that. >> you give sensitive information including information you've had in conversation withat th

. >> next, senator duckworth will be participating remotely as i understand. >> thank you, madame chair. it is a pleasure to join you today. i want to thank our witnesses for being here. gentlemen if you are looking for places to put rotc programs i invite you to illinois and all of my communities of color along the mississippi river not the least of which, a major union port for union logistics during the civil war another community of color that is struggling. i sure could use a jr. rotc program for the young people growing up there. i would like to, my first question, to be an international one. like a number of my colleagues on the commerce committee. i also serve on the armed services committee and am interested in the could he have had guard engagement with our allies in the indo pacific region through exercises and training. the coast guard has for example sent two cutters to vietnam, another one to sri lanka and many other nations around the world and also indo pacific. can you explain how the coast guard's international partnerships strengthens our nation's readiness to engage

chairman. >> thank you, senator duckworth. now let me recognize senator blackhorn. >> thank you, mr. chairman. gentlemen, we thank you all for being here with us today. as you heard from all of us, the american people, tennesseans are wanting some answers. they deserve to hear your testimony. and i think it is unacceptable that this is the first time that i'm hearing from you in any form despite attempts at outreach by both me and my staff, save a few short all senator phone calls that we have had. i want to emphasize all of us here, every one of us answered to the american people. and they transparency and information regarding this administration's botched and disgraceful withdrawal. tennesseans are really angry. and as you know, general milley, tennessee is home to the 101st airborne, one of the most deployed divisions in the u.s. military. we're also home to the sword that were on the ground last on the ground extracting them in dafrpger in kabul. the tennessee national guard units deployed to afghanistan at a high operati