Menendez quick to blame the Trump administration.
Interesting- Secretary of Defense Austin has declined to testify.
Risch likening Biden to a 'puppeteer act', being cut off in mid-sentence by 'someone in the White House'. kek
Risch: The Biden Administration alone is responsible for this debacle.
Blinken blaming Biden; hard to believe he was actually making any decisions.
Blinken: The president makes all the strategic decisions.
Blinken: Some [Americans] are changing their mind from day to day whether or not they want to leave [Afghanistan].
Johnson to Blinken: If I was to read your testimony, not having watched any news, I would think this was a smashing success.
Sounds like many of the refugees don't have any identification at all.
Romney has been aging rapidly. Looks terrible.
Blinken says thousands of legal, permanent residents remain in Afghanistan.
Portman: The best numbers we have is that 3/4 of people evacuated were not green card holders, were not American citizens, were not SIV applicants, were not P1 or P2 Visa holders.
"The government and the CDC won't even acknowledge natural immunity."
-Ben Carson, Rally To Save Our Schools
Paul to Blinken: You have released $64 million dollars in aid to Afghanistan. Don't we have some prohibition against giving aid and comfort to the enemy?
Paul: You'd think you would know before you off somebody with a Predator drone, whether the person was an aid worker or ISIS-K.
He just said it in the hearing.
Barrasso: America can no longer ever say we leave no American behind, because Joe Biden did.