DHS Sec. Mayorkas on troubling viral videos of Border Patrol being aggressive with Haitian migrants:
"One cannot weaponize a horse to aggressively attack a child. That is unacceptable. That is not what our policies and our training require ... We will not tolerate mistreatment."
WH Press Sec. Jen Psaki says Biden found viral videos of Border Patrol being aggressive with Haitian migrants “horrific.”
“This is not who we are," Psaki says. "That’s not who the Biden-Harris administration is."
Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-TX) defends Border Patrol agents caught on camera using reins on migrants:
“It’s a very desperate situation and they’re doing God’s work, fighting everything they can.”
VP Kamala Harris calls videos of Border Patrol agents using reins on Haitian migrants “horrible” and says she supports a “thorough investigation.”
“I’m deeply troubled about it.”
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) on Border Patrol agents using reins on Haitian migrants:
“Border Patrol has had those horse brigades for a while ... What are they supposed to do, just stand there and let everybody come in?”
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— President Biden says he’s been “engaged all day, in constant contact with military commanders” about ISIS-K terrorist attacks at Kabul airport, which killed 12 U.S. service members and scores of Afghan civilians.
President Biden: "To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this: We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay."
President Biden quotes from the Book of Isaiah before a moment of silence for service members:
“When the Lord says, ‘Who shall I send?’ … The American military has been answering for a long time, ‘Here I am, Lord. Send me.’”
President Biden: “If you’re one of the millions of Americans who said that they will not get the shot until it has full and final approval of the FDA, it has now happened. The moment you’ve been waiting for is here.”
President Biden calls on companies to require COVID vaccine for employees following FDA’s full Pfizer approval:
“I call on you now to do that. Require it.”
President Biden: “Make sure your child is masked when they leave home. That’s how we can best keep our kids safe.”
Just now, @SecBlinken on Afghanistan evacuations: "Last 24 hours about 8,000 people on about 60 flights evacuated from Kabul airport. Since this effort began at the end of July, about 30,000 people all told ..."
More @SecBlinken, backing up what Biden said this week: "Al Qaeda's capacity to do what it did on 9/11, to attack us, to attack our partners or allies from Afghanistan, is vastly, vastly diminished."
Blinken acknowledges al Qaeda is not fully gone from Afghanistan.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says there are "roughly a few thousand" Americans left in Afghanistan.
Sullivan then explains why U.S. officials don't know the *exact* number of those remaining ...