mr. dunleavy: this is not monday morning quarterbacking. everything that happened here president biden was warned in real time by people on the ground and his military commanders. the house foreign affairs committee had testimony from command sergeant major jake smith last month. he was the command sergeant major who, at the time in 2021, was overseeing the u.s. closure of military bases across afghanistan. he was tasked with closing bagram. he testified in early 2021 the state department officials from the embassy in kabul came to visit him at bagram to do a site survey about where to do an evacuation. he told them in no uncertain terms you cannot do this evacuation through kabul airport. you have got to hold bagram. it is safer. it is more orderly. it is extremely defensible and of course, as i mentioned earlier, the prisoners at bagram still would have been behind bars rather than trying to kill americans. president biden knew this and was being warned about this and he moved forward with it anyway. that goes for pretty much every decisi

mr. dunleavy: this is not monday morning quarterbacking.that happened here president biden was warned in real time by people on the ground and his military commanders. the house foreign affairs committee had testimony from command sergeant major jake smith last month. he was the command sergeant major who, at the time in 2021, was overseeing the u.s. closure of military bases across afghanistan. he was tasked with closing bagram. he testified in early 2021 the state department officials from the embassy in kabul came to visit him at bagram to do a site survey about where to do an evacuation. he told them in no uncertain terms you cannot do this evacuation through kabul airport. you have got to hold bagram. it is safer. it is more orderly. it is extremely defensible and of course, as i mentioned earlier, the prisoners at bagram still would have been behind bars rather than trying to kill americans. president biden knew this and was being warned about this and he moved forward with it anyway. that goes for pretty much every decision he made.