{"id":650974,"date":"2021-08-16T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=650974"},"modified":"2021-08-16T12:21:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:21:44","slug":"jen-psaki-out-of-the-office-as-afghanistan-falls-to-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-out-of-the-office-as-afghanistan-falls-to-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen Psaki \u2018Out of the Office\u2019 as Afghanistan Falls to Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjen-psaki-out-of-the-office-as-afghanistan-falls-to-taliban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=650974&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"27.502008032129\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">President Biden quiet on crisis during Camp David vacation<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1230841855-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"White House press secretary Jen Psaki\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230841855.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1230841855-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tWhite House Press Secretary Jen Psaki \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/philip-caldwell\/\" title=\"Posts by Philip Caldwell\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Philip Caldwell<\/a> \u2022 August 16, 2021 12:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"59.874694376528\">\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki is &#8220;out of the office&#8221; this week as the Taliban executes its takeover of Afghanistan, according to automated messages her office has sent to media organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/jen-psaki-out-of-office-as-biden-remains-silent-on-taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attempted to reach<\/a> Psaki for comment on Sunday\u2014the same day the Taliban seized Kabul, Afghanistan&#8217;s capital city. Psaki&#8217;s email returned an auto-reply that said the press secretary would be &#8220;out of the office&#8221; from Aug. 15-22.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden, who is on vacation at Camp David, has been silent on the Taliban&#8217;s takeover. Biden is expected to return on Monday to Washington to deliver remarks on the crisis, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaitlancollins\/status\/1427283974427185152?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The White House&#8217;s sole acknowledgment of Kabul&#8217;s capture came Sunday, when it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1426975024750211074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a photo<\/a> of the president sitting alone while participating in a video call with national security officials to discuss the &#8220;ongoing security situation in Kabul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers have <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/15\/gop-pols-slam-biden-for-hiding-while-afghanistan-falls\/\">slammed<\/a> Biden for taking a vacation while Afghanistan is in chaos. &#8220;Why is Joe Biden in hiding?&#8221; Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTomCotton\/status\/1426922151148404736?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Sunday. &#8220;He should immediately address the nation and answer for the catastrophic situation in Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban swept across Afghanistan in recent weeks following Biden&#8217;s pullout of troops from the country, facing little resistance. The jihadist organization has captured all major cities in Afghanistan. Thousands of desperate Afghans swarmed the Kabul airport on Sunday in an attempt to escape, crowding the tarmac and trying to board planes. Seven people <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonLemire\/status\/1427277960499896330?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been killed<\/a> at the airport amid the chaos.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration President Biden quiet on crisis during Camp David vacation  White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki \/ Getty Images  Philip Caldwell \u2022 August &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}