many, along with defense secretary lloyd austin and the head of central command, kenneth mackenzie, being questioned by senators. the button administration has been widely accused of being unprepared for the full of campbell. senior officials have admitted that taliban forces advanced far more quickly than anticipated. we help build a state, mr. chairman, but we could not for donation. the fact that the afghan army that we in our partner strain simply melted away in many cases without firing a shot, took us all by surprise, and it would be just honest a claim. otherwise, we need to consider some uncomfortable truths that we didn't fully comprehend. the depth of corruption and poor leadership and the senior ranks that we didn't gras damaging effect effect of frequent and unexplained rotations by president ghani of his commanders. that we didn't anticipate. the snowball collect effect caused by the deals that the taliban commanders struck with local leaders in a wake of the doha agreement. and that the agreement itself had a demoralizing effect on ask and soldiers. patrick elaine is more fr

lloyd austin, joint chiefs of staff, chairman, mark, milly, and the head of central command. kenneth mackenzie are appearing before the house armed services committee. administration has been accused of being unprepared for the full of cobble for the taliban. now in control journal many says there's a real possibility, extremist groups can rebuild as early as spring taliban city and couple significant emboldens the radical jihad movement. globally. the analogy i've used with many others, is it likely we'll put a shot of adrenalin into their arm? and a pyramid of steaming black rock because emerged from the atlantic ocean of spain's paula island after lava. from the review volcano hit the atlantic ocean. huge plumes of smoke was set off. let authority say the air remains fine to breathe, but that will be more closely monitored. hundreds of homes have been destroyed and thousands of people evacuated. thanks, but sacon vivia has their options could get more intense, before it stops. as it absorbs, stay with us. witness is next to looking at the global housing crisis of more news for you after tha

general kenneth mackenzie apologized and acknowledged that those cold and what was a residential era cobble were not associated with the parent group. i said, kate, i am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to 7 children, were tragically killed in that strike. moreover, we now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with k or were a director at to us forces. there was a mistake, and i offer my sincere apology. america's last drove strike officially of the of the afghan war, turned into a terrible tragedy where we heard them tried to justify these as strike say that they saw him this vehicle in year and isis compound that they saw him looting containers, which turned out to be water containers into his god, we found that very quickly that what the united states said and what people were reporting on the ground, the witnesses, and the body count that they didn't fit with the american narrative. the guy, the biden administration drone, was an aide worker or an isis k offered if the administration is, of course, reviewing that, t

many, along with defense secretary lloyd austin and the head of central command, kenneth mackenzie, being questioned by senators. the button administration has been widely accused of being unprepared for the full of campbell. senior officials have admitted that taliban forces advanced far more quickly than.

lloyd austin, joint chiefs of staff chairman, mark, milly, and the head of central command, kenneth mackenzie, or appearing before the house on services committee, the administration has been accused of being unprepared the full of cobble with the taliban now in control general many says there's a real possibility extremist groups could rebuild as early as spring television sitting a couple significantly emboldens the radical jihad movement globally. the analogy i've used with many others is it likely will put a shot of adrenalin into their arm. a talent has warned of negative consequences if the united states does not stop flying dreams over africa space. in effect on twitter, the group says the u. s. as violated international laws, as well as commitments made in the doha agreement with its use of drones. since the american ministry withdraw and taliban take over last month, us officials are repeatedly said they will maintain over the horizon capabilities and responding to threats. and i've kind of on at least 10 civilians, including 7 children, were killed in the u. s. to strike in couple l

here's general kenneth mackenzie today, the head of us central command watch. again, i won't share my personal recommendation to the present, but i will give you my honest opinion and my honest opinion and view shape to my recommendation. i recommended that we maintain 2500 troops in afghanistan, and general milly then was asked next. and he also agreed with that assessment. so de either joe biden is a liar, or he is losing his mind, or maybe both, i don't know, but he was not being honest and forthcoming with george stephanopoulos and the american people during that interview where he denied that his, his people told him to keep a force there. the big question for me is when i 1st met this, acknowledge just all of these politicians double talk in see one thing to you and say something go to a different person. i'm not going to dispute that at off. the big problem is, what are we going to do moving forward, whereas the plan to fix the things that we attempted to do. and basically, that's the conversation i'm trying to have when i talk about joe by saying one th

with defense search st. annoyed austin, who just saw that the head of central command, general kenneth mackenzie, are currently being grilled by senators on capitol hill. that's lesson and women in uniform. not only died, but they were in the middle of huge throngs of individuals, desperately trying to get out. i don't believe that you would suggest that that was being completed in an orderly manner so that that's, that's the 2nd. the 2nd operation was a non combatant evacuation, which was i think you heard me say early on center was was child. we had some challenging times early on we recovered from that and were able to, but you would, mr. you would not consider that to have been done in an orderly manner. would you? i would say overall we have, we endured challenges but, but again, we were able to get out an enormous amount of people. i don't disagree that the young men and women who wear the uniform of this country on that particular very challenging time period did everything they could. but clearly it was not in an orderly manner. they were in a very disastrous and i think we would all agr

secretary lloyd austin, joint chiefs of staff chairman loc millie on the head of central command. kenneth mackenzie appeared before the house armed services committee. administration has been accused of being unprepared for the full of campbell taliban now in control. general really says there's a real possibility extremist groups could rebuild as early as spring taliban city. and couple significant emboldens the radical g hardy movement globally. the analogy i've used with many others. is it likely we'll put a shot of adrenalin into their arm? defense secretary, no. austin told the committee that he did not support keeping troops in afghanistan forever. in my view, there was, there is no, was no risk free status quo option. i think that the taliban had been clear that if we stayed there longer, they were going to recommend attacks on our forces. i think while we, it's conceivable that you could stay there, my view is that you would have had to deploy more forces in order to protect ourselves and accomplish any mission that we would have been assign. the taliban is warned of negative consequences i

see, that joint chiefs of staff chairman walk many and the head of central command, general kenneth mackenzie roll, testifying, that's listenin. you made all these, it was your plan, you even acknowledge it was your plan and your plan. so do you do all these things before we got our civilians out? i mean, when in the history of this country, have we ever had the u. s. military and have a plan that we will take our military out 1st before we take our civilians? i can't imagine that when you, when you say civilians are you, are you, are you talking about this american citizen now? the american citizens would come out, once noncombatant evacuation is declared. and until that point, typically we don't evacuate all the citizens in the country. but we didn't hear, there's american systems still there and we continue to remain engaged and, and work to, to get those services out center. why would you propose a plan that didn't get all american citizens out? i just can't imagine ever in the history this country or u. s. military would propose to leave a country with our citizens coming out 1st. i mean

initially joint chiefs of staff general mark milley defended the strike, but general kenneth mackenzieknew something was wrong. we think that the procedures were correctly followed. i know it's a righteous strike we need from the very beginning, there is a possibility civilian casualties, many are questioning the u. s. is ability to vet terror threats without boots on the ground in afghanistan. former joint chiefs chair admiral michael mullen weighed in this morning. the overall over the horizon capability is really they're doing it in an extremely quick, confused, chaotic environment. made this one that much more difficult and problematic. the pentagon is now considering reparations for the families of those killed in the strike. officials say no disciplinary action is to be expected. in washington. alexandria hoff fox news. qatar airways flight has taken more americans out of afghanistan, according to washington's peace envoy. friday's flight was the third such airlift by the mideast carrier since the taliban takeover and the frantic us troop pullout from that country. the developmen

withdrawal from afghanistan, defense secretary lloyd austin joint mark milley and commander general kenneth mackenzien the afghanistan withdrawal today in front of the senate armed services committee. senators asked about evacuations of americans and afghan allies, intelligence failures, and counterterrorism measures. general milley defended his cost to his military counterpart following the 2020 election

withdrawal from afghanistan, defense secretary lloyd austin joint mark milley and commander general kenneth mackenzie on the afghanistan withdrawal today in front of the senate armed services committee. senators asked about evacuations of americans and afghan allies, intelligence failures, and counterterrorism measures. general milley defended his cost to his military counterpart following the 2020 election first revealed publicly in a book by a bull board -- bob woodward. live to capitol hill for a hearing on the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan and lessons learned on the 20-year conflict. members of the senate armed services committee are getting ready to hear testimony from the defense secretary, lloyd austin, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley and general mackenzie, head of u.s. central command. you're watching coverage live on c-span 3. >> let me call the hearing to order. first in an administrative action. since a quorum is now present, i ask a committee to consider a list of 2,900 pending military nominations. included in this list is u.s. air force for reappoint to