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Mike Rogers: “The president and his State Department drove that decision…”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Republican | U.S. House Alabama, District 3

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Rogers Speaks at Roundtable on Afghanistan

Published | Video Starts at 00:32

And we had the mission given by the State Department to protect the embassy and the Kabul airport. You can't do both air bases with 600 people. So The president and his State Department drove that decision, not the military. We have. We created a $250 million counterterrorism fund. We want to know what the security impacts are for letting NASA's K terrorists out. We go into the. (00:32–00:36)

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Asserts that the decision to reduce troops was made by the President and State Department, not the military.

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