President Biden returning to the White House. Will speak today at 3:45pm ET

[DesertRat]

Breaking: President Biden is returning to the White House to deliver remarks this afternoon on Afghanistan. He is scheduled to speak today at 3:45pm.

Link to tweet

[hamsterjill]

1. Good!!

Thank you for posting!

[PunkinPi]

2. Thank you! nt

[ansible]

3. About time

[Budi]

6. ? C'mon.

[JohnSJ]

10. Exactly. Speaking without having the full details would be the worst thing he could do

I suspect he will now be able to give full details of the situation there, and what we are doing

[obamanut2012]

8. lolz

[XanaDUer2]

14. I'm sure he's being briefed thoroughly

after all, he's not Bush or trump

[Budi]

4. God bless ya, man

Sorting out & dragging that Trump ball & chain, while STILL lifting the country out of illness & poverty & building back better.

Wish I could thank him & shake his hand.

[RKP5637]

5. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Boomerproud]

7. I'm sure he is hurting today.

we all are.

[NCDem47]

9. There was no point in Biden doing this any earlier than today.

He and his team HAD to get their ducks in a row. Plus...most of US not paying attention to news on weekend. Wonks and activists (us here at DU, cable news, political oppoenents, etc.) were dialied in of course.

Not a prime time address, but just before the afternoon and evening local and national news, so Biden will deliver soundbites and a humbleness to counter any criticism.

[JohnSJ]

11. +++

[Lovie777]

12. K & R . . .

also, media put COVID on the back burner, and it's spreading due to the fact of un-vaxxers and no wearing masks.

[NCDem47]

13. I said this in another post:

Republicans smell blood in the water on this. They will fully leverage the situation to push 1/6 and COVID out of the news. Take a Xanax, it will be intense----until its not and all are left are Benghazi types who will harp on this until their dying day. As if NOTHING else even matters.

[VEGANGTA]

15. Outsider looking at CNN

As an outsider I get frustrated with the coverage by CNN. They always crap on the Democrats. They have a story titled "Joe Biden is facing a crisis of competence".

For years before Trump they constantly said...Her emails but washed over Trumps sexual assults.

I cant watch them anymore, And I'm not American!

[underpants]

17. Joe should just throw Trump under the bus

He’s got a lot of Capital built up with his successes so far. He has the spotlight so repeat the statement he issued pointing out this was all set by Trump. Ace him and the press - they are going to rip Joe anyway so he might as well hit back.

[AngryOldDem]

19. Even though it's 20 years out, this is on George Bush and Dick Cheney, ultimately.

I mean, who didn’t see this coming? But we are the almighty and all-powerful United States of America!

At least Biden is ending the bullshit on this. I look for brute honesty this afternoon, especially in light of the repeated footage of his earlier comments that the MSM is now playing ad nauseam.

It was a GOP administration — and a lying one at that — left this festering pile of shit on every administration’s doorstep. Enough is enough. The duplicitousness and corruption of the Afghan government is now on full display — we ignored a lot of hard realities over the years, which has fed into this chaos.

Biden could have continued with this sick charade. He didn’t. For that, I support him and commend him. It’s just too damn bad this went on as long as it did — I grieve for everybody who gave their life for this fool’s errand.

[Polybius]

16. Hopefully he says "The Taliban must be stopped..."

"...But not by us. We're leaving ASAP and never coming back."

[NightWatcher]

18. He better point out that tfg was responsible for ALL OF THIS!

Show pics of Pompeo meeting with the new head of the taliban. Show the tweets from tfg and the page that the gqp just scrubbed from their website.

Don't take this shit laying down. Point fingers and call it like it is.

[tritsofme]

20. Wonder if the networks were unwilling to give him a prime time spot?

Or if this is just what they requested? Seems like they would want a larger audience, barely anyone will see this live.

[AngryOldDem]

21. I'm guessing so that Europe could see it live as well.

It is five or six hours ahead of us, depending on country. Otherwise, it is a puzzling choice of time.

[IcyPeas]

22. I don't know why but I am dreading his address.

I just have a pit in my stomach.

[XanaDUer2]

23. I'm nervous