Jan. 6 Hearing Reveals Trump Signed Order To Immediately Withdraw Troops From Afghanistan, Somalia

AFGHANISTAN TO BE COMPLETE BEFORE THE BIDEN INAUGURATION ON JANUARY 20th. AS YOU WATCH THESE CLIPS RECALL THAT GENERAL KEITH KELLOGG WAS THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR TO THE VICE PRESIDENT AND HAD SERVED AS CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNSEL FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP. AND GENERAL MILLEY WAS THE CHIEF OF STAFF AT THE PENTAGON. >> ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH A MEMO THAT THE PRESIDENT SIGNED ON NOVEMBER 11th, 2020 ORDERING THAT TROOPS BE WITHDRAWN FROM AFGHANISTAN AND SOMALIA? >> YES. >> SO I THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN SOME THINGS WHERE THIS MEMO OR SOMETHING TO JOHNNY McPHEE

TO DOUGLAS McGREGOR SAYS HERE IS YOUR TASK, TO GET U.S. FORCES OUT OF SO MOLL YA AND AFGHANISTAN. >> WHEN YOU FIRST INTERVIEWED AND MET COLONEL DOUGLAS McGREGOR, IS IT FAIR TO SAY YOU DISCUSSED THIS DECISION OF WITHDRAWING FROM SOMALIA AND AFGHANISTAN, CORRECT? >> YEAH, I’M SURE THAT WAS PART OF IT, YEAH. >> AND THE POSITION THAT HE WAS TAKING OVER THERE WAS SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE; IS THAT CORRECT. >>> YES. >> SO ON THAT SAME DAY JUST SO I’M CLEAR, HE RESPONDED BACK TO YOU THAT THEY, MEANING D.O.D. LEADERSHIP WAS NOT

GOING TO DO — TAKE ANY OF THOSE STEPS WITHOUT AN ORDER? >> WITHOUT A DIRECTIVE, YEAH. >> I EXPLAINED IN LANGUAGE THAT SHOULD BE IN

THE ORDER WHILE IN THE MEETING WITH HIM. I SAID IF YOU WANT THIS TO HAPPEN OR THE PRESIDENT WANTS THIS TO HAPPEN, HE’S GOT TO WRITE AN ORDER. >> SO YOU NEVER WROTE THIS DOWN IN ANY CAPACITY? >> I SKETCHED ON A PIECE OF PAPER FOR HIM SOME KEY STATEMENTS. THE PRESIDENT DIRECTS. THE PRESIDENT DIRECTS. YOU KNOW, THIS SIS — WHAT’S THE WORD? BOILER PLATE LANGUAGE. >> WHO IN HIS OFFICE

DRAFTED THE ORDER? >> IT WAS MYSELF AND ONE OF MY ASSISTANTS. >> HE TYPES IT UP AND BRINGS IT TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESIDENT SIGNS IT AND FAXED OVER, EMAILEDED,, SCANNED OVER. >> WAS IT BY AUTO PEN OR THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF SIGNING IT? >> IT WAS THE PRESIDENT. >> AND WHO OBTAINED THAT SIGNATURE? >> I DID. >> IT IS ODD. IT IS NOT STANDARD. IT IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS. I PERSONALLY THOUGHT IT WAS MILITARY NOT FEASIBLE. MILITARY NOT FEASIBLE. >> AND I PROCEEDED TO TELL THE >> AND I PROCEEDED TO TELL THE PPO AND McGREGOR

THAT IF I EVER SAW ANYTHING LIKE THAT, I WOULD DO SOMETHING PHYSICAL. BECAUSE I THOUGHT WHAT THAT WAS DONE WAS A TREMENDOUS DISSERVICE TO THE NATION AND BY THE WAY, THAT WAS A VERY CONTESTED ISSUE. THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT DID NOT AGREE WITH GETTING OUT OF AFGHANISTAN. APPRECIATE THEIR CONCERNS AND A DEPARTURE THAT MEMO SAID WOULD HAVE BEEN CATASTROPHIC. IT’S THE SAME THING WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A DEBACLE. >> KEEP IN MIND, THE ORDER WAS FOR AN IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CATASTROPHIC. AND YET, PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNED THE ORDER. THESE ARE

THE HIGHLY CONSEQUENTIAL ACTIONS OF A PRESIDENT WHO KNOWS HIS TERM WILL SHORTLY END. AT THE SAME TIME THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS ACKNOWLEDGING PRYIVATE