Jen Psaki to answer questions from House Foreign Affairs committee over Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal

President Joe Biden’s former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has agreed to sit down with the House Foreign Affairs Committee investigating the administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Biden admin pulled US forces out of Afghanistan abruptly in August 2021 in an operation that cost 13 US soldiers their lives. After the withdrawal, the Taliban regime took power and violence has plagued the country.

According to a letter sent to Rep. Michael McCaul, (R-TX), the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Psaki will testify on July 26 at a closed-door transcribed interview with the House Foreign Affairs Committee as part of the panel’s investigation into the August 2021 withdrawal following 20 years of operating in Afghanistan. The deadline had been set by the Trump administration, but when Biden came into office, little planning was done to meet that deadline.

The court’s decision will likely delay a trial on the federal election charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith. On Tuesday, sentencing for the former president for his conviction on 34 felonies was postponed until September following the high court’s ruling. Trump also faces other federal charges related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents. The judge indefinitely postponed the trial in May, saying that issues regarding classified evidence needed to be resolved before the case goes to a jury. Another case, in DC on J6, has also been snagged based on the Court's ruling in both the Fischer case and Trump v. the United States.
 
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