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President Biden delivers remarks on Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and evacuation efforts. msnbc.com/live

President Biden says "I stand squarely behind" decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, adding "this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated."

President Biden: "I will not repeat the mistakes we've made in the past — mistake of staying and fighting indefinitely in a conflict that is not in the national interest of the United States, of doubling down of a civil war in a foreign country"

"I'm now the fourth American president to preside over the war in Afghanistan ... I will not pass this responsibility onto a fifth," President Biden says, adding he won't shrink from his share of responsibility, "the buck stops with me.”

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.@NicolleDWallace on Biden's speech on Afghanistan: "He...went a long way to really fleshing out a Biden doctrine. And there are questions about whether he can achieve what he set out. But there is no equivocation, there is no lack of confidence that this is the right decision."

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