Okay, so there was a hearing under oath with General Millie, other Pentagon people,

Secretary of War, Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense, I call it

Secretary of War, they changed it, Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, okay, and they had to answer

questions about Afghanistan, because Biden's not going to tell you the truth about it and neither is Kamala.

All right.

So now the senators called in the Pentagon brass to answer questions as they should have.

Now the first question is from Republican Tom Cotton from Arkansas.

And he basically made General Millie answer yes or no.

Roll the tape.

My assessment was back in the fall of 20, and it remained consistent throughout, that we should keep a steady state of 2,500.

And it could bounce up to 3,500, maybe something like that

in order to move toward a negotiated gated solution.

All right. So Millie Bigsley is saying my assessment was that you had to leave between

2,500 and 3,500 American troops in Afghanistan in order to get any kind of decent settlement.

On the record, now it took a long time to get there.

Okay?

Millie, but finally, cotton pinned them down and you heard Millie.

My assessment was 25 to 3,500 U.S. troops had to stay.

Backing him up was the U.S. Central Commander General Kenneth McKenzie.

He said the same thing.

All right.

So now you got two top generals in the theater of Afghanistan saying to the American public,

...