President Joe Biden will once again return to Washington as chaos unfolds in Afghanistan, the White House said Tuesday.
Biden will be back at the White House to deliver remarks on the pandemic and to conduct an interview with ABC News on Wednesday.
“Tomorrow, he will be doing an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at the daily briefing. The White House later announced Biden was scheduled to return Tuesday evening.
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Stephanopoulos served as the White House communications director under former President Bill Clinton.
The president made a quick return to the White House on Monday to give a speech about the conditions in Afghanistan and to defend his decision to withdraw — his first live remarks on the subject in six days, though he did issue a lengthy written statement over the weekend.
Biden had been criticized for vacationing as the U.S.-supported government in Kabul fell to the Taliban. He returned to Camp David after his East Room speech Monday.
Psaki had also been vacationing, but she came back to lead a White House daily press briefing on Tuesday alongside national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
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Both Psaki and Sullivan faced numerous questions about whether the administration had failed to anticipate predictable events in Afghanistan and how Americans will be evacuated from the war-torn country now that the Taliban have assumed control.
Sullivan told reporters that Biden had not spoken with any world leaders about the situation in Afghanistan recently.
