i know scott miller very well. how that -- everybody agreed to it. scott miller agreed to it.o it, mark milley agreed to it. gina haspell agreed to it. we had over 3,000 paramilitary support. we kept the air power and bagram air place. that was the agreement in place. everybody knew that. the plan was set to hold those forces until we had a good agreement in place, which was an agreement between the afghan government, ghani and the taliban. that was part of the agreement on february 29, 2020 called the doha agreement. until a stipulations were met, we were going to stay there. the president of the united states, donald trump, picked up the phone on march 3 and i was in the oval office when he made the call. he talked to the chief taliban negotiator and made it very clear using trumpian terms, what would happen if we violated the agreement? because of that we had no americans killed from the 29th of february, 2020 until president trump left office. because he understood it was backed by u.s. force and we wouldn't move the troops out. everybody in the incoming administration kne

troops in afghanistan general scott miller advanced comic advised against the full withdrawal and pass the recommendations in the chain of command that 2500 groups should remain on the ground. at miller's field was troops should maintain a holding pattern potentially supplemented by additional forces from allied nations making clear that he didn't know what the end of timeline would be. he strongly dissented with the intelligence assessment that afghanistan withdrawn from out the taliban and 1-3 years, he believed it would go much faster. miller had a chance to share his views with president biden several times before the draw down and his assessments were also included in the chairman of the joint chiefs presentations to the national security council. at senators were unclear on whether the president ultimately heard miller's recommendations, wanting really to hear more from defense secretary lloyd austin about just how much weight they were given. >> what i can tell you is that military views, military advice, and that includes from the secretary defense as well as the chairman at ot

one the president made his decision, my headquarters and those of afghanistan, under general scott miller, made the withdrawal of our forces our top priority. we did this in close coordination with our allies and partners. every departure of every element was carefully synchronized across the coalition and with our afghan partners. on no occasion were they caught unaware by our movements. every base was handed off to afghan forces, according to a mutually understood plan. this is particularly true of bagram airfield. many of you have visited bagram at some point over the past 20 years, and were probably struck by two of its defining features. its sprawling size and its isolation. virtues for moe of its life span, they rendered it untenable under the circumstances. the guidance i received in april was to conduct the complete withdrawal of u.s. combat forces and plan for a diplomatic security force of absolutely no more than 650 service members. it was not feasible to preserve the u.s. embassy in kabul, hold and defend hamid karzai international airport, the embassy's key link to the outsid

general scott miller oversaw that, they pulled out of bagram and low and behold, 11 days later kabul fell and the u.s. military had to then execute what is known as neo, the noncombatant evacuation, secretary austin said there were three battalions placed in doha qatar, they would go back in and carry out that noncombatant operation. those 2500 troops at bagram were advisors and that is what general milley pointed out today, they would not be the troops to use for noncombatant evacuation. it is important to understand the series of events and events dictated by the white house, white house gave them troop, date and deadline and u.s. military had to comply. it is important to go back 18months to doha agreement and why nobody stood up and said the taliban are not complying with their side of the agreement and why didn't they stop the pull-out along the way and president biden came in on january 20th and decided after listening to his military commanders to go ahead with the pull-out. that started until president trump and general milley said it started in 2011, 10 years ago, we went fr

general scott miller commanded troops in the country until july, he advised the president keep boots on the ground. >> the president's and serve. >> i'm not going to get into details of private advice. what is clear is the president asked for candidate, non-sugarcoated advice on afghanistan. jillian: the into the president gave last month. >> no, they didn't. that wasn't true. >> all of this comes as americans are trapped in afghanistan airport, confirming the taliban is not allowing evacuation flights to leave. the biden administration, 6 border points of entry to stay open after governor greg abbott ordered them to close. todd: the number of migrants held under one texas bridge basically explodes overnight. >> texas governor greg abbott, the federal agency asked texas to step in, the massive surge of migrants crossing the border. they asked to close the points of intrigue, the biden administration has flip-flopped to a different strategy that abandoned border security and makes it easier for people to cross illegally and cartels to exploit the border. cvp was overrun. >> we receive

according to two members at tuesday's armed services hearing, general scott miller said he advised against a full afghanistan withdrawal early in the biden administration. you barely passed this recommendation through the chain of command to general mckenzie. mark millie and secretary of defense lloyd austin. miller recommended 2500 troops day on the ground to keep stability in afghanistan. he said he was turned down at his job became the execution of the withdrawal, the pentagon spokesperson john kirby would not comment on miller's testimony. >> i won't speak to his views that he may or may not have expressed in a session with members of congress. the president was given advice and counsel to formulate his open unit his decision. >> this comes as republicans are putting pressure on the white house designate the taliban as a foreign terror organization. >> why would not the taliban in afghanistan be a foreign terrorist organization? >> the intelligence is clear the taliban equals al qaeda. >> flights of stopped for 7 days because of measles cases. >> the cdc requested 7 additional days out

biden was being honest when he said his advisor supported his afghanistan withdrawal after general scott miller commanded troops in the country, told congress he advised the president to keep boots on the ground. >> i'm not going to get into details of private advice. what is clear is the president asked for candid, non-sugarcoated advice in afghanistan. >> jackie heinrich, the answer the president gave last month. >> the they wanted to keep 2500 troops. jillian: all of this, at the airport. the state department confirming the taliban is not alone in evacuation flights. todd: house lawmakers demanding records related to claims of generalizability's calls to his counterpart. before and after the riot are crucial areas of focus. general milley is accused of making calls behind donald trump's back, the chief of staff chairman denies he did anything illegal saying the calls were within his purview. chris miller denies he gave general milley the green light to make the calls was the former chief of staff doubling down on his former buys's claim that he followed the law. >> the law prohibits the chai

. >> all three witnesses today said that their recommendations as well as those of general scott miller, the last u.s. commandner afghanistan made to it president biden. >> all of the parties had an opportunity to provide input and that input was received. >> the white house press secretary jen psaki attempted to clarify. >> we made clear, secretary austin said, if he stayed there at a force posture of 2,500, certainly you'd be in a fight with the taliban and you'd have to reinforce. so what should everybody take from that? there was a range of viewpoints. >> psaki went on to say the president did not think even if his commanders recommended 2,500 troops that that would be the final recommendation. he assumed the numbers would rise and the u.s. would be back in a war with the taliban if the u.s. state. >> neil: thanks, jennifer. to aishah hasnie with the other development here. how many americans are still left in afghanistan. the going thinking is around 100. but how much and how far are we going to get them out of there. aishah, what are you hear something. >> that's right. we finally

commander in afghanistan, army general austin scott miller appeared before the senate armed servicesee. he spilled the beans behind closed doors and of course naturally you know how washington leaks. now we know exactly what he said. he advised against the full afghanistan withdrawal early in the biden administration passing the recommendation up the proper chain of command. he recommended that the president keep at least 2500 troops on the ground to maintain stability and miller said the taliban could take over the country much faster than what the intel community was saying in one or two or three years. and he feels good that he was able to present his views to the president, but the president didn't listen. brian: because he said that barack obama was rolled by the generals. he wouldn't be. but it doesn't end there. not only did general imlil who mysteriously disappeared from the battlefield before this withdrawal took place. maybe he stood for something. i believe general milley wanted to keep 4,000 troops in there and he was ignored. he doesn't go and circumvent this president o

troops in afghanistan general austin scott miller passed his recognition through the chain of command that 2500 troops should remain on the ground to maintain stability given the taliban threat assessment. miller's view with troops should maintain a holding pattern, potentially supplemented by additional forces from allied nations. giving no recommendation on how long they should stay and making clear he didn't know what the end timeline would be. but he strongly dissented with the intelligence belief afghanistan would fall to the taliban in one to three years. miller saying it would go much, much faster. >> he did not tell the president of that because the president wasn't there. >> fox has also learned miller did have the chance to share his views with president biden several times before the drawdown and his assessments were included in the chairman of the joint chiefs presentation to the national security council before biden's decision. senators were unclear if the president ultimately saw miller's recommendation. wanting to hear from defense secretary lloyd austin about how much

general scott miller reportedly told reporters in a briefing yesterday that he opposed a full withdrawal the country where he led nato and u.s. troops until july. >> we had quite an event with general miller. and he did say that it's acknow posed the effort that took place. and he did not tell the president that, because the president wasn't there. but he did talk to his -- to austin mckinzie and miley, and told them that he had been opposed to the total withdrawal. >>> that was senator imhoff, the top senator on the armed services committee. he added he believes there were inconsistencies within the administration on the withdrawal. former committee member elizabeth warren added that the general was quite candid. and he felt that the military and the nation needed to do a lot of soul-searching on lessons learned from the war. >>> meanwhile, intelligence officials say it's only a matter of time before al qaeda reconstitutes itself in afghanistan. >> the current assessment is one to two years for al qaeda to build some capability to at least threaten the homeland. >> i think we are alread

>> well, first of all, scott miller did say hard and fast. he also meant that at least to me and to others that he meant that to be in the fall, october, november, maybe even december time frame. >> i heard you say that earlier. i'm curious about that. that wasn't his testimony to this committee. >> when he said in the committee is hard and fast. he didn't put a date on it. i don't know. did he? >> no, he didn't put a date on it. you did. that's what intrigues me. >> he did put a date on it to me and to us. and when pressed, it was after we leave, point one, which was 31 august, and probably into the october time frame, maybe thanksgiving and that is about more or less where many of the intel assessments -- >> he said he was the dissenter on the intel assessment. >> that's right. >> he didn't put any of those qualifiers on his testimony to us. so are you saying he shifted his testimony, general milley? >> no. i'm saying what he told me it was likely in the october time frame. the intel assessments of centering around november, thanksgiving at

. >> general austin, scott miller, the former commander of us forces in afghanistan. brief senators yesterday and for republicans, it only added fuel to the fire. >> yes. what joe biden when going anywhere, gop senators left a classified briefing tuesday with plenty to say about the biden administration's response to the afghan government collapse in the evacuation efforts that followed were not don't let the military take the fall for this alabama senator tommy tuberville question whether the withdrawal was a military or political decision and mississippi. senator roger wicker said they learned more during the closed meeting with the former commander of us forces in afghanistan. but president biden decided to do was contrary to the advice of senior military leadership. president biden has said he based the decision to end the military mission on the unanimous recommendation of his civilian and military advisors, there's no way. to put it pretty face of this and tennessee. senator marsha blackburn warned leaving behind american citizens, green card holders and afghan

president biden did make his decision and as soon as the decision was made, general scott miller, theommander of u.s. forces in afghanistan until july, he laid out his time line right then and it was communicated forward to the white house, to the state department and to others that the military was going to focus on getting people out quickly, and getting u.s. military out quickly and safely. they were concerned the longer that any withdrawal was drawn out, it would be a more insecure, a more dangerous situation for the military on the ground. defense officials saying once the president made its decision they moved ahead to implement it, andrea. >>> breaking news in texas. stunning new video and a potential humanitarian crisis along the southern border. two dhs officials telling nbc news, there are money than 10,000 people, many of them from haiti, under the bridge near the rio grande river hoping to get through processing and into the u.s. the number of people under the bridge has doubled in less than a week. >> it is unbelievable, andrea. i was standing by that bridge about a month

told the president biden to stick with 2500 troops in afghanistan and instead, it was general scott millerosed members of congress. that also leaves a small force behind which has small critics wondering, did anyone tell president biden to take every soldier out at once? >> let me tell you about my old buddy joe biden. he's been about as dumb as a rock on foreign policy for 30 years and when trump left, bob graham was in our hands as americans who had 2500 groups don't make troops on the ground. the reason the taliban is in charge today is because of joe biden, not donald trump enough the generals. >> bill: at the pentagon is also remanding people that the president's orders must be followed and president biden insists that his was not in conflict with the latest intel. >> your top military advisors warned against it, they wanted you to keep about 2500 troops. >> president biden: no they didn't, it was split. that wasn't true. >> they didn't tell you they wanted troops to stay? >> bill: not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a time frame all troops. they didn't argue against t

forces afghanistan under general scott miller made the withdrawal of our forces are top priority. we did this in close coordination with the allies and partners. every departure of every element was carefully synchronized across the coalition and with our afghan partners. on no occasion with a caught unaware by our movements. every base was handed off to afghan forces according to mutually agreed plan. many of you have visited at some point over the past 20 years were probably struck by two of its defining features, its sprawling size in this isolation. birches for most of its lifespan they rented it untenable under the circumstances the guidance i received in april was to complete a complete withdrawal of u.s. combat forces and planrc for diplomatic security force absolutely no more than 650 service members. it was not feasible to preserve the u.s. embassy in kabul hold and defend the international airport the key link to the outside world and also defend the airfield with six and 50rn soldiers and marines. this is important, the bog run option went away when we were ordered to r

we've already heard from general scott miller in a closed setting a couple weeks ago. general miller is a legendary officer, former commander of delta force and the special operations command. it is clear that he did not advise the president to withdraw earlier this year. we want to hear if general mckenzie forwarded that recommendation and if it got to president biden. biden said no one recommended he leave any troops in afghanistan. furthermore president biden has said no one in the military advised him after kabul fell to extend the deadline beyond august 31 to make sure we get out all our people. we want to explore that terrible drone strike in which 10 innocent civilians were killed because that reflects going forward in the future exactly how limited our options are for what president biden calls the so-called over the horizon capability. more along the lines of over the rainbow because our actions are so limited in afghanistan to protect this country. finally we want to talk about the afghans we did get out. we know we left behind the vast majority to use the bi

that was through scott miller's headquarters on the ground, the process of outreach, both to president ghani and to other members. it might have taken a couple of days for that process but it was not kept -- [ simultaneous speaking ] >> very quick, is the 650 in addition? we said we would keep 650. >> the gentleman's time has expired. they went from 2,500 to 650, as i understand it. >> that is correct, sir, but the capabilities were different. they were different forces to do different things. >> crucial point, thank you. mr. moulton is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general milley and secretary austin, my first question to you at our hearing on june 23 was why had you not started the evacuation of our allies already. you responded that we have a, quote, moral imperative to save the afghans who worked by our side. secretary austin, you said earlier today that moving too slow with the evacuation would put our troops at risk. so i want to know what you did personally, all through of you, between that june 23 hearing and august 15 when kabul fell, to meet that moral imperative. n

had the opportunity once he was confirmed to go back to have those conversations with general scott miller into consideration all of our military leaders, their recommendations, he evidently did not do that. this administration is acting as if we are done with afghanistan. we are done getting americans out. it was extremely disappointing. i can tell you that general milley. general mackenzie and secretary austin will have a lot of questions to answer next week. brian: senator, you are a veteran. i have had a chance even last night to talk to maybe three dozen veterans. they are outraged and disheartened by this in a way you can't put into words. they have no right to turn the page on this disaster. and right now americans and our allies are being hunted down and killed and they want to turn the page. >> yes. brian: if secretary of defense austin was against this move, and general milley was against this move, are they going to say that next week? and, if they don't, are they going to be held accountable for this decision? tony blinken just put a big stop sign and gave you guys the heisman

i know general scott miller. i know what he said.r years. they were saying we have to have conditions. we have to have a plan. we have to have a systemic process make a decision how far we can draw down. secretary blinken said there was no plan. no, we had a plan. they simply tore it up and walked away from it you can see the results. i can't imagine that the military didn't give them the same advice that they gave president trump and said conditions based withdrawal. let's go work to create conditions and we can get it right. steve: governor, this probably wasn't a military decision. this was a political decision, joe biden said has been saying for years we need to get out. he has got the keys to the air force 1. so he said okay, we are going to get out. it's going to be messy. it was. now here we are. >> what joe biden has shown himself to be as president is stubborn. now, we know from listening to president obama that for eight years he said that vice president biden was like a dog on a bone regarding getting out of afghanistan wi

. >> well, first of all, scott miller did say hard and fast. he also meant that at least to me and to others that he meant that to be in the fall, october, november, maybe even december time frame >> i heard you say that earlier. i'm curious about that. that wasn't his testimony to this committee. >> well what he said in the committee was hard and fast. he didn't put a date on it is the read out to me. i don't know. did he put a date on it? >> no. you did. that intrigues me. >> he did put a date on it with me and to us and when pressed it was after we leave. point one. which was 31 august. and probably into the october time frame, maybe thanksgiving. that is about more or less where many of the intel assessments were. >> he said he was a dissenter on the intel assessment and didn't put those qualifiers on his testimony to us. are you saying he shifted his testimony? >> no. i'm saying what he told me was it was likely to be in the october time frame. the intel assessments of centering around november, thanksgiving at the latest christmas. some i

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miller. the fomc kicked up its two-day meeting today, and joining us for a preview is scott minerd, guggenheimtners chief investment officer. there is so much going on in the markets, especially in credit. everyone freaks out about evergrande. i cannot tell if it is sensationalist because it is an exciting story or it is tied to the bigger, and prosperity issues we've been seeing in china, or if it is really a big problem for global credit markets, if we just cannot see how much it matters right now, how deep it is, counterparty risk. what is your thinking on evergrande? scott: i saw a story on bloomberg the other day that i thought sums it up well. is this a great financial crisis or long-term capital? i think it is long-term capital. there is a problem in asia. china is a much bigger part of the global economy than it was 15 years ago. the repercussions to their property market are huge. a lot of people here are not familiar with the fact that real estate is like the only alternative asset class. you either own bonds, stocks, or real estate. a lot of people have been buying real estate just

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scott, his policy director, anna olivera roche. i want to thank our district attorney, jacob o'dean and from my office who have worked hard on this and thens, finally juvenile probation chief katie miller. thank you everyone for working so hard to make sure we have the best policy here in san francisco. and, with that, i want to ask my colleagues if they have any comments before we open this item up for public comment. >> supervisor ronen, if i may say? >> i'm here. i don't have any comments. >> supervisor ronen: we have our staff attorney ann pierson. >> thank you, supervisor ronen. my office had a chance to review into the record last night and we made some small tweaks to approval as to reform. she circulated a very small draft to your aid this morning. i don't think the one you read into the record is the one she sent to him. again, the changes are very minor. >> supervisor ronen: would you mind reading the changes? do you have them in front of you? >> i do. the sfpd shall first present. all juvenile delinquency cases where, one, all the allege criminal acts occurred within the city and county of san francisco. two, the san francisco police department is the lead or sole investigat

scott, his policy director, anna olivera roche. i want to thank our district attorney, jacob o'dean and from my office who have worked hard on this and thens, finally juvenile probation chief katie miller make sure we have the best policy here in san francisco. and, with that, i want to ask my colleagues if they have any comments before we open this item up for public comment. >> supervisor ronen, if i may say? >> i'm here. i don't have any comments. >> supervisor ronen: we have our staff attorney ann pierson. >> thank you, supervisor ronen. my office had a chance to review into the record last night and we made some small tweaks to approval as to reform. she circulated a very small draft to your aid this morning. i don't think the one you read into the record is the one she sent to him. again, the changes are very minor. >> supervisor ronen: would you mind reading the changes? do you have them in front of you? >> i do. the sfpd shall first present. all juvenile delinquency cases where, one, all the allege criminal acts occurred within the city and county of san francisco. two, the san francisco police department is the lead or sole investigative agency and, three, california welfare i