host: joining us for our next half hour is jonathan landay, national security correspondent with reutersthis report from the state department was dropped the friday before the fourth of july holiday. here is redhead line. the 20 afghanistan evacuation critical of both president biden and former president trump. what were the takeaways? guest: that was one of the major takeaways. the reason is because the white house issued its own reports back in april that we were told included, or summarized, both this state department report and a defense department after action review that looked at the way the defense department performed in the evacuation and withdrawal from afghanistan. at this report has been classified. we have not seen that report. nevertheless, what was striking is the fact the state department criticized president biden as well as president trump. but the white house report that we were told it fed into lacked any of that criticism of president biden and basically blamed the chaos of the withdrawal in 2021 on failures of the trump administration host: -- administration. host:

host: jonathan landay.resting because what the military was telling president biden was there were only 2500 american troops left in at nana stan -- left in afghanistan because of what they authorized after leaving and pushing the president to release 5000 imprisoned taliban fighters. president biden was being advised by his military that if he tried to stay and maintain an american presidents -- an american presence in afghanistan, they would be attacked by the taliban. the taliban made repeated warnings that they would do such a thing and that 2500 troops would not be enough to secure kabul into the withdrawal and they would have to send another 10,000 americans back into afghanistan. this was something that we know joe biden opposed. when he was vice president, he had been pushing for a drawdown and keeping only enough troops in afghanistan to be able to conduct counterterrorism operations. one has to remember that would have had to have been with the say-so of the taliban. regarding the closure and hand

host: joining us for our next half hour is jonathan landay, national sec