father and goldstar mother-in-law and goldstar mother my deepest condolences as a parent, i can't think of anything worse i am sure all three of you would agree you are never going to be the same person again. is that the consensus? >> very much so. >> my understanding is all three of you were part of a group invited to meet with donald trump and i want to ask i know there were efforts to meet with president biden and my understanding is nothing ever came of that and donald trump heard about that and he invited all of the families. >> all of the families at the time in dc with the exception of one so eight of the 13 families yes we were invited and we did go and president biden neglected to say anything but president trump was very gracious and listened to our concerns and told us he would take care of it and stuff like this can't ever happen again and the failures on every level through the administration the pentagon, dod all the way down have failed us and our kids miserably. >> you lost your son taylor hoover marine corps staff sergeant 31 years old lofted ? lost in afghanistan and

you also represent the goldstar families, all of them, through the conflict. the service members were murdered in a terrorist attack on august 26, 2021, at the airport in kabul. their names are as follows. marine corporal hunter love has, marine lance corporal riley jamie cohen. lance corporal kareem. marine corps sergeant johnny rosario. marine corps corporal sanchez. marine corps lance corporal will jared's mitch and navy petty officer third class. before we start, i would like to take a pause for a moment of silence, in remembrance of them. thank you. these men and women were marines, soldiers and sailors. they were americans. they were patriots. they were heroes. but you, they were more than that. they were your sons, your daughters, your hearts. and they were ripped away from you in an act of violence, halfway around the world. as a father of five, i cannot begin to imagine your pain and suffering. two years later, we are still here, seeking answers. how did this happen? what went wrong? why couldn't this tragedy have been prevented? these questions remai

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had not previously been spoken to, the decision to revisit the case follows growing criticism of goldstarte: you to talk to everybody the first time? rachel: jimmy buffett's death spiking a surge of interest in the iconic singer's music. his song margaritaville, the first time any of his songs have landed at number one. really? ♪ wasted away again ♪ margaritaville ♪ yes i have yes i have ♪ searching for my rachel: i love that song. buffett died after a private battle with skin cancer. will: put out a x on what the verb is for a tweet. what your favorite song? minus come monday. that came in the second on people's response. that is my favorite song. rachel: over margaritaville? rachel: i would probably know them. pete: that's the part of it. rachel: cheeseburger in paradise. will: you like the ones right down the fairway. will: i like the ones we sing at bars. will: casual listeners of jimmy buffett. rachel: i went to college, went to bars and around here, jimmy buffett, don't ruin it for me. why are you trying to ruin it? a little -- will: i love the macarena. rachel: what your favorite m

just yesterday we had an incredible roundtable with the goldstar families of the 13 servicemembers killed august 26, 2021. the only caveat i will give as i am just here as the co-author. i am not talking on behalf of the committee. host: we covered that on c-span, that hearing, and if anybody is interested you can look at that on c-span.org or our app. james, you are a former u.s. army captain and served in afghanistan. tell us what you did and where you served. mr. hasson: i served in coast province. two provinces on the border from 2014 to 2015. i have a lot of family members still serving actively and several, including, in the special forces community -- including close friends, in the special forces community. host: you are not there during the withdrawal. mr. hasson: i was already out. host: how long did you stay in afghanistan? mr. hasson: nine months. host: let's talk about the book called "kabul". do you chronicle the entire war or is this just about the withdrawal? mr. dunleavy: i wish we could have done a book that went through the 20 years of war. it would have had to be 10,00

just yesterday we had an incredible roundtable with the goldstar families of the 13 servicemembers killed august 26, 2021. the only caveat i will give as i am just here as the co-author. i am not talking on behalf of the committee. host: we covered that on c-span, that hearing, and if anybody is interested you can look at that on c-span.org or our app. james, you are a former u.s. army captain and served in afghanistan. tell us what you did and where you served. mr. hasson: i served in coast province. two provinces on the border from 2014 to 2015. i have a lot of family members still serving actively and several, including, in the special forces community -- including close friends, in the special forces community. host: you are not there during the withdrawal. mr. hasson: i was already out. host: how long did you stay in afghanistan? mr. hasson: nine months. host: let's talk about the book called "kabul". do you chronicle the entire war or is this just about the withdrawal? mr. dunleavy: i wish we could have done a book that went through the 20 years of war. it would have had to be 10,00

i recently spoke to goldstar family members of those lost family members and they told us that specificallyn is not giving them the answers and the accountability that they need for what happened to their loved ones that day. does the pentagon need to be more forthcoming about what happened that day to those 13 service members? >> jake -- i can't even begin to put myself in the shoes of those who lost their loved ones and who were acting so heroically and bravely. i can't begin to imagine what they're feeling. i can just say that if i were in their shoes, i'd probably feel exactly the same way, and we're determined as an administration to make sure that for the entire duration of the war including abbey gate that we draw the lessons that we need to draw from it, and act accordingly, and we will, and we are. at the same time, the president made it very difficult and a very important decision to end america's longest war. 20 years, and we want to make sure and as a result of what the president did, and we can make sure that we're not going to have another generation going to afghanistan to fi

. >> i will take the goldstar, thank you, chairman. i would like to thank our witnesses today. we acknowledge fully this is not easy and that your respect, rather, your surface, your public service here is respected and acknowledged and valued. thank you, thank you for your testimony. i think it is important for us to summarize much of what we heard and saw today. and, overall but this matter is about. u.s. attorney hand-picked by attorney general bart has, for four years investigated together with a dozen agents and at least four prosecutors from his office and the tax division of the department of justice the son of president biden. hunter biden has been charged with a felony and misdemeanor is, to misdemeanors and he is pleading guilty to several climes and submitting to sentencing by an appointed judge, a trumpet appointed judge. however, we are also seeing today an effort to find some issue with this prosecution, the existing prosecution. this is a person who has attempted to crimes. and, finding evidence of political interference, a very serious charge. so, much of what w