Biden: Afghanistan Pullout was not a Failure
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
3.9 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:31.5 | Outfront next, we're breaking news. President Biden, defiant and defensive, saying the sudden |
| 0:36.6 | collapse of Afghanistan was not a failure |
| 0:38.9 | and insisting there was no way to leave the country without chaos ensuing. Why didn't he tell that, |
| 0:44.8 | though, then, to the American people before Kabul fell? Plus, we have more breaking news. The president |
| 0:49.5 | also saying U.S. troops could stay in Afghanistan past the August 31st deadline and the Biden administration |
| 0:56.7 | announcing plans to start rolling out COVID booster shots next month. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, |
| 1:02.5 | the CDC director, is out front. Let's go out front. |
| 1:07.4 | Good evening, everyone. I'm Kate Baldwin, in for Aaron Burnett. Outfront tonight, breaking news, |
| 1:11.6 | President Biden, defiant and unapologetic about his decision and the execution of the plan to |
| 1:16.8 | withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Speaking to ABC News, Biden, saying the mayhem playing out |
| 1:22.8 | in Afghanistan is not a failure and that there was no way to withdraw without chaos ensuing. |
| 1:30.4 | Back in July, you said a Taliban takeover was highly unlikely. Was the intelligence wrong or did |
| 1:36.1 | you downplay it? I think there was no consensus. You go back and look at the intelligence |
| 1:40.9 | reports. They said that it was more likely to be sometime by the end of the year. |
| 1:46.8 | You didn't put a timeline out when you said it was highly unlikely. |
| 1:49.0 | You just said flat out it's highly unlikely the Taliban would take over. |
| 1:52.3 | Yeah. |
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