Peter Doocy asks White House 'what's so funny' after Biden Afghanistan joke

president biden facing criticism today after speaking first about a spending bill up on capitol hill and then afghanistan during his speech we brought you yesterday today the president had a new focus and it wasn't the u.s withdrawal as the race to meet his self-imposed august 31st deadline quickly approaches white house correspondent peter ducey joins us from the north lawn with that good evening peter good evening brett officials here like to boast that right now the pentagon is pulling off what may be the largest airlift in history but there have been several critical days of this operation that the commander-in-chief hasn't wanted to talk about it as the world watches i've made this a priority for my administration from the outset he was talking about cyber security no talk about afghanistan policy aside from this punch line mr president if americans are still in afghanistan after the deadline what will you do you'll be the first person i'll call so what's so fun of course it's a very important question these are incredibly serious issues and there are discussions that are happening internally as the clock ticks towards a final flight out of kabul the president's focus on domestic issues including the buildback better agenda last night is worrying some critics he was wasting precious time this week burning the phones up pressuring democrats to vote for a 5 trillion dollar spending bill and tax bill that's what he was wasting time on every minute of his days should be getting all americans out the top democrat in congress still backs biden the judgment about leaving is about judgment that the president has made i trust his judgment republicans including some who served don't we are on the cusp paris of having the biggest mass hostage situation in american history it's going to make 1979 and tehran look like a sleepover after the president's deadline to leave the taliban may remain u.s partners if it makes good on its commitments to allow people who want to leave afghanistan to leave that's a government we can work with but that could conflict with a long-standing foreign policy tradition why haven't we heard the president say the united states does not negotiate with terrorists is that still the u.s policy well of course it is peter but i would also say that there's a reality that the taliban is currently controlling large swaths of afghanistan that is a reality on the ground so they say they don't negotiate with terrorists what they do is they have active discussions with the taliban and officials claim they haven't given anything to taliban leaders they don't see this as a quid pro quo but nobody around here has been able to say what is going to happen after the us leaves and the taliban starts stopping afghans who helps the u.s want to leave too from leaving two right big question peter ducey live on the north lawn peter thanks hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 2min 59sec (179 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 26 2021