Democratic lawmaker on Biden blaming intel on Afghanistan collapse: ‘We deserve answers’ from administration

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Rep. Susan Wild on Biden blaming intel on Afghanistan collapse: ‘We deserve answers’ from administration

Rep. Susan Wild, D-Penn., on President Biden defending America’s exit from Afghanistan.

Rep. Susan Wild, D-Penn., told "America's Newsroom" on Thursday that the American people "deserve answers" from the Biden administration about what led to the collapse of Afghanistan and America's "failure" to handle the matter.

"I don't think we've had enough communication on Afghanistan and the situation right now. We deserve answers. We intend to get answers. You've already heard that the House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to conduct hearings as early as next week," Wild told "America’s Newsroom." 

Wild claimed that the House Foreign Affairs Committee will be in Washington and she will have an "awful lot of questions."

"I know my colleagues on both sides of the aisle do as well. And every single member of Congress should be focused on this right now, right along with the administration. We should be focused on damage control. What can we do to right the situation as much as we possibly can," Wild said.

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Matters continue to get worse for President Biden as critics on both sides of the aisle panned the comments he made to ABC's George Stephanopoulos about his administration's turbulent Afghan withdrawal. 

Just moments after Biden walked away from the White House podium without taking questions following an address focused on the coronavirus, ABC News released clips from the sitdown taped Wednesday afternoon and more of the interview aired on "World News Tonight."

Stephanopoulos pressed Biden if he thought the withdrawal could have been "handled better in any way."

"No. I don’t think it could’ve been handled in a way that- we’re going to go back in hindsight and look but the idea that somehow there was a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens," Biden said.

"So for you, that was always priced in the decision?" Stephanopoulos followed.

"Yes," Biden answered. 

"This is a presidency-defining clip. And it’s really bad," Commentary associate editor Noah Rothman reacted.

"This is such a slap in the face to the thousands of Americans still in Afghanistan. He had no plan, he has no urgency, and he won’t take responsibility. #Shameful," former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley wrote. 

Pennsylvania Democratic congresswoman Wild doubled down, telling hosts Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer that she was not "particularly satisfied" with Biden's answer that the intel community did not foresee Afghanistan's collapse.

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Furthermore, while the media is clamoring for more information on the Afghanistan collapse, Wild pressed that there are matters that the secretary of defense and the secretary of state cannot talk about publicly. 

She went on to say, however, that though she is not opposed to having classified briefings, there need to be public hearings because the American people deserve to know what happened.

"And most importantly, Gold Star families and veterans deserve to know exactly what happened here. And quite frankly, the Afghan people who we have pledged to help, deserve to know what is going on. And also we need to learn from this failure."

Fox News' Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.