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The interim government named by the Taliban falls very short of the mark that was set by the international community for inclusivity.

I`m responsible for the decisions that I make. We made the right decision in ending America`s longest war.

I've suggested that platforms and projects come in and talk to us. . . . I believe that the SEC, working with the CFTC and others, can stand up more robust oversight and investor protection around the field of crypto finance.

We want to make sure that we are doing whatever we can to support these efforts.

We would do everything within our means to have their backs, and so would many other countries around the world.

I would call it very, very significant.

We want to make sure that that does not happen, because if people lose faith and confidence in it...

It certainly runs counter to those goals, whenever there are civilian casualties, whenever there are unintended injuries or deaths.

We strongly support that. Those need to be updated to reflect present realities, not reality as it was in 2001 or 2002.

That required some coordination with them to get people through and to the airport.

The reality is that the government and Afghan national security forces collapsed.

We will stand by our commitments. We will stand by our commitments to Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act.

Absolutely. We stand by our commitments to both countries.

We are now in a much better position to confront the challenges and threats that we actually face in 2021.

I believe that there is nothing that our strategic competitors like China or Russia would have liked more than for President Biden to have reupped the war in Afghanistan.

Yes, except that those conditions were so loose, particularly with regard to commitments it made.

But as an institution, after 20 years of investment by the United States, by the international community, hundreds of billions of dollars, equipment, support, training, as an institution, it collapsed in 11 days.

We inherited a deadline. We did not inherit a plan.