Biden Confronted By Reporter About Deadline: What Do You Tell Afghan Allies ‘Who May Not be Able to Get Out by August 31?’

A reporter confronted President Joe Biden on Thursday about his commitment to evacuate Afghan nationals who assisted with the United States’ war effort in the country.

“You say, ‘What America says matters,'” the reporter told Biden at an evening press conference about the carnage in Kabul earlier in the day. “What do you say to the Afghans who helped troops who may not be able to get out by August 31st?”

Suicide bombings earlier in the day shuttered activity at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, five days before evacuations were scheduled to end.

“I would say to you we’ll try to get you out,” Biden replied. “It matters. Look, I know of no conflict, as a student of history, no conflict where when a war was ended — one side was able to guarantee that everyone that wanted to be extract from the country would get out.”

He added: “I know the American people get this in their gut. There are — I would argue, millions of Afghani citizens who are not Taliban, who did not actively cooperate with us … who, if given the chance, they would be on board a plane tomorrow. It sounds ridiculous, but the vast majority of people in communities like that want to come to America given a choice. So getting every single person out is — can’t be guaranteed by anybody because it’s a determination of who who wants get out as well. Anyway, it’s a process.”

The president pledged six days earlier to bring home every American and Afghan national who assisted with the war effort. “Let me be clear,” Biden said at a press conference on Friday. “Any American who wants to come home, we will get you home.” He said he was “making the same commitment” to Afghan allies.

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