"Biden said that 13,000 people have been flown out of Afghanistan since Saturday" L.A. Times

[IcyPeas]

I see this as good news. TFG would be bragging about this.

Biden said that 13,000 people have been flown out of Afghanistan since Saturday and that the U.S. government had assisted in the evacuation of thousands more on private charter flights. He said 5,700 people were airlifted out on Thursday.
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The president’s message of progress was upended by an eight-hour shutdown of the Kabul airport on Friday after Qatar, a top destination for rescue flights in recent days, informed Washington that it would not accept any more planeloads of Afghan refugees. As officials raced to address the snarl, Biden delayed his remarks by an hour, giving aides time to revise his message.

[Hoyt]

1. Definitely good news.

[Texaswitchy]

2. Good.

Joe has got it.

[Walleye]

3. I think Joe was trying to keep from divulging any classified information.

I don’t think he really wanted to disclose the methods they were using to rescue some of the vulnerable people and bring them to the airport. Just my impression