CBS Gets Blinken to Admit Biden Is Asking Taliban for 'Permission' to Save Americans

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 22, 2021
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The Biden administration was having an extremely rough time spinning their Afghanistan failure as they made the rounds on the Sunday shows. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made things exponentially worse on CBS’s Face the Nation after fill-in moderator Major Garrett got him to admit the administration was asking the Taliban for “permission” to get Americans out of the country.

Blinken’s fumble began when Garrett asking him about President Biden’s comments regarding “an agreement with the Taliban,” because “that implies we're negotiating with them.” “Does that not confer upon them already legitimacy,” Garrett fretted.

In defense of Biden, Blinken suggested that negotiating with the terrorist organization was needed to foster “a working relationship in order to deconflict, in order to work through any problems with people getting to the airport.”

Garret cut right to point and asserted that, to some, it sounded like he and the rest of the administration were asking “permission” to save Americans. Blinken didn’t disagree or show any discomfort at the notion.

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