{"id":675406,"date":"2021-08-23T11:21:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=675406"},"modified":"2021-08-23T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:21:56","slug":"kamala-harris-laughs-when-asked-about-afghan-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-laughs-when-asked-about-afghan-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Laughs When Asked About Afghan Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fkamala-harris-laughs-when-asked-about-afghan-crisis%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=675406&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/kamala-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris, who escaped Washington, D.C., on Saturday for a trip to Asia, deployed her signature nervous laughter when reporters asked her about the ongoing and ever-devolving situation in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHold on. Hold on. Slow down, everybody,\u201d said Harris, who has steadfastly avoided the press since the Taliban swept across the country as U.S. troops pulled out.&nbsp; \u201cHahaha. Um, I want to talk about two things. First, Afghanistan \u2014 we couldn\u2019t have a higher priority right now,\u201d she said from halfway around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in particular high priority is making sure that we safely evacuate American citizens, Afghans who worked with us, Afghans at risk, including women and children, and that is one of our highest if not the highest priority right now. And it\u2019s a big area of focus for me in the past days and weeks, and will continue to be,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Harris was not answering a question because she cut off the reporter before she finished. \u201cWhat\u2019s your response to reports that Americans\u2013\u201d the report said before Harris interrupted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8793103448276\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Kamala Harris laughs when a reporter starts to ask her about Americans trapped in Afghanistan <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7863Seq36C\">pic.twitter.com\/7863Seq36C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1429456040043720708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During a Monday press conference in Singapore, Harris \u2014 who has claimed she was \u201cthe last person in the room\u201d when Biden decided to retreat U.S. troops from Afghanistan \u2014 boasted that \u201cthe U.S. is a global leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019s chuckling came a day after her boss laughed off a serious question from a reporter in a White House press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA question on the public response,\u201d a reporter said Sunday after Biden made a statement about Afghanistan. \u201cA new poll, out today shows Americans wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan, but they disapprove of the way you\u2019ve handled it.&nbsp; The poll also found that based in part of what transpired over the last week, a majority of Americans \u2014 and forgive me, I\u2019m just the messenger \u2014 no longer consider you to be competent, focused, or effective at the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the rest of the exchange, according to a transcript released by the White House:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24\">\n<p><em>THE PRESIDENT: I haven\u2019t seen that poll.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Q: It\u2019s out there, from CBS this morning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>THE PRESIDENT:&nbsp;(Laughs.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Q: What would you say to those Americans who no longer believe that you are doing the job?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>THE PRESIDENT:&nbsp;Look, I had a basic decision to make: I either withdraw America from a 20-year war that, depending on whose analyses you accept, cost us $150 million a day for 20 years or $300 million a day for 20 years; who \u2014 and I \u2014 you know I carry this card with me every day \u2014 and who \u2014 in fact, where we lost 2,448 Americans dead and 20,722 wounded.&nbsp; Either increase the number of forces we\u2019d keep \u2014 we keep there and keep that going, or I end the war.&nbsp; And I decided to end the war.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden never did answer the question.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.8448275862069\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen that poll,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/edokeefe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@edokeefe<\/a> asks President Biden to respond to a new CBS News poll that suggests Americans mostly disapprove of his handling of Afghanistan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5O6bk0qm4b\">pic.twitter.com\/5O6bk0qm4b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1429549032167415809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The reporter followed up, asking, \u201cOn the question of the Taliban though, do you have a \u2014 do you trust them now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t trust anybody, including you.&nbsp; I love you, but, you know, there\u2019s not a lot of people I trust to \u2014\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris, who escaped Washington, D.C., on Saturday for a trip to Asia, deployed her signature nervous laughter when reporters asked her about the ongoing and ever-devolving situation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-675406","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\/675406","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675406\/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=675406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}