White House: President ‘Laser Focused’ on Evacuating Americans From Afghanistan

Two civilians during processing through an Evacuee Control Checkpoint during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 18, 2021. Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/U.S. Marine Corps via AP

President Joe Biden is “laser focused” on getting Americans who want to leave Afghanistan out of the country, a White House official said Friday.

“He has directed the Department of Defense and the team working on this to use every possibility available to them to increase the number of people that we’re getting out,” Kate Bedingfield, the White House’s communications director, said on CNN’s “New Day.”