President Biden is defending his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Biden spoke from the White House Monday, one day after the Taliban captured the Afghan capital, Kabul. 

President Joe Biden: “The truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. So what’s happened? Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight. If anything, the developments of the past week reinforce that ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision.”