thank you very much for sharing your thoughts of those retired admiral william fallon, joining us on the phone that from big sky montana. when i was close, when it can be i'll get joins is live now. and kimberly were just hearing that from the former head of us central command saying that he is disgusted with the way in which this withdrawal has taken place. we obviously sort of as a be shaken president when he was delivering his statement that bought, he essentially defended his policy. what is the reaction likely to be very washington? well, the reaction in washington is divided as one could expect. there are those that are calling for joe biden's resignation, mostly his republican critics, to have been arguing that this has been.

continue, would separations in a bit to relieve the mounting humanitarian crisis. retired admiral william fallon is a former head of the us central command and focused on combat efforts in iraq and afghanistan . he joined us earlier by phone and says it's clear american troops should have stayed. my reaction is, 1st of all, one of the complete disgust at the decision to go out in the manner in which it was done a going back to the crazy agreement that was signed or agreed to by the former president drum and then the president for whatever reason believing that he needed to follow through on that. i think that it's a huge mistake because of effectively the combat was over the major combat. but for quite some time in afghan a stand. we had a residual, a couple of 1000 troops there, which in my opinion should have stayed or some equivalent number of those to do the task that remain. and i would point out the incredible parallel with this decision to pull troops out entirely. and the decision made several years earlier by another president in iraq, in which we completely abandoned the place. and the

well, after joe biden speech, actually admiral william fallon was on al jazeera to give an interview over the phone, william foul and his retired admiral from the marine corps. but he's not just any retired admiral. he is the former head of central command, and he told us that he did not agree with the donald trump's former president donald trump's agreement with the taliban to leave afghanistan. and he also said he did not agree with the way that joe biden is pulling out of afghanistan. either. this gives you, and i mentioned this because this gives you an idea of how there is a lot of worry in the united states by some quarters on how this is all playing out . quite frankly, there's a lot of people in america. the polls indicate that most americans feel that we should not, we, meaning the united states that this country should not be in afghanistan, and they support anymore. and they support the pull out of us troops from afghanistan. but then you ask, do you like how it's being done? and a lot americans are saying, we're not particularly comfortable with how it's being done. that w

thank you very much for sharing your thoughts of as retire . admiral william fallon joining us on the phone that from big sky montana. well i was close when it can be i'll get joins is live now. and kimberly were just hearing that from the former head of us central command saying that he is disgusted with the way in which this withdrawal has taken place. we obviously saw visa be shaken president when he was delivering his statement that bought he essentially defended his policy. what is the reaction likely to be very washington? well, the reaction in washington is divided as one could expect. there are those that are calling for joe biden resignation mostly, his republican critics, to have been arguing that this has been botched since joe biden took office, and it's been a white house struggling to get a foothold on this situation. but then there are others that feel that the u. s. president is not to blame, but in fact, the previous trumpet, ministration is partly at fault, and you heard there joe biden, as he spoke with one of the last questions asked by a conservative reporter repr

bring in admiral william fallon, admiral and former commander.eing here. in fact, today we learned after yesterday, it was reported to us, the american people, there was two attacks yesterday there in afghanistan that led to the casualties. we now know that it was one. it seems details on the ground continue to change. we'll get your thoughts in this moment as we just heard from the white house. sir, can you hear us? you're on the air. >> i've got you now. thanks. i think it is pretty sad, very discouraged at events that transpired recently, particularly yesterday with the loss of life. i think that we could have done something quite different. the so-called deal that was negotiated with the taliban when we know they are unlikely to keep their word and as part of that, we apparently gave up our leverage, we decided to pull out of bagram, the on-site field provide air support for afghan troops we've been doing all along, seems to me that we shouldn't be surprised at chaos going on, it is very tragic, when you get in a situation like this, we are b