Psaki deflects query of how US can proceed to work with Taliban after lethal suicide bombing

White Home press secretary Jen Psaki sparred with Fox Information reporter Peter Doocy after he pressed her on whether or not or not the USA would proceed to work with the Taliban after an ISIS-Okay suicide bombing left 13 American service members useless.

“I am not making an attempt to sugar coat what we consider the Taliban. They aren’t a gaggle we belief,” Psaki mentioned when requested by Doocy how the USA can proceed to work with the Taliban after a suicide bomber made it via considered one of their safety checkpoints on the Kabul airport. “They aren’t our pals.”

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Psaki added that working with the Taliban has resulted within the evacuation of 104,000 individuals, which in essence, she says, saved 104,000 lives.

“That coordination is critical to be able to proceed our evacuation measures,” Psaki mentioned.

“Does the president actually assume that they’re going to be dependable companions if we’re already getting experiences that they aren’t letting Afghans into the airport?” Doocy requested.

“Once more, this isn’t about belief, this isn’t concerning the Taliban,” Psaki mentioned. She reiterated that cooperating with the Taliban has resulted within the evacuation of numerous individuals. “We’ve to coordinate with them to be able to get individuals out.”

“We’ve an unlimited quantity of leverage,” Psaki added. “That features financial leverage… that we’ll clarify to the Taliban.”

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Psaki was addressing reporters on the identical day that 13 American service members – 12 Marines, and one Navy corpsman – have been killed in a suicide bombing at a chokepoint entrance to the Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport in Kabul.

ISIS-Okay, a terrorist group centered in Afghanistan, has claimed accountability for the assault.

“We are going to hunt you down and make you pay,” Biden mentioned concerning the attackers in a press convention Thursday. 

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Biden is dealing with requires his resignation over the assault and the general dealing with of the withdrawal, together with from a number of members of Congress.

Republicans Sen. Josh Hawley, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rep. Lauren Boebert, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, and others have known as for Biden to both be impeached or step down.

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