Friday Fire: Doocy, Wegmann Press on Hamstrung Military, Working With the Taliban

Curtis Houck | August 27, 2021
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Despite it being a Friday afternoon after a long, difficult week for the country, many in the White House press corps kept up the heat against Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Afghanistan with Fox’s Peter Doocy, the New York Post’s Steven Nelson, Real Clear Politics’s Philip Wegmann, and even some liberals testing Psaki’s patience.

Doocy’s first question drew what he would later say on Special Report was “as strong a statement about anything that we have ever heard from this administration” on Afghanistan:

DOOCY: When the President says we will hunt you down and make you pay, what does that look like? Is he going to order a mission to kill the people responsible or would he be satisfied if they are captured and brought to trial? 

PSAKI: Ah, I think he made clear yesterday that he doesn't want them to live on the Earth anymore.