taking responsibility for that? jake: he is taking responsibility for he said that the buck stops with him. i am also taking responsibility, and so are my colleagues. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the directors of our intelligence agencies. we has a national security team collectively take responsibility for every decision. good decision, every decision that doesn t produce perfect outcomes. that is what responsibility is. now, at the same time, that does not change the fact that there are other parties he responsible as well, who have taken actions and decisions that help lead us to where we are, so from our perspective, what we have to do now is focus on the task at hand. the mission at hand. you mention chaos at the airport yesterday. at the end of the day, the question is can we effectively evacuate those people who we intend to evacuate, and that is what we are planning for and
biden administration maintained that taliban would not take over. i want to play a quick sound bite from jake sullivan earlier. watch this. we as a national security team take responsibility for every decision, good decision, every decision that doesn t produce perfect outcomes. what do we know about that disconnect in the messaging there? what factored into the administration s decision making here? a couple days ago we heard from secretary of state tony blinken saying this is not a friday to monday situation. we re not going to see a collapse like that. president biden repeatedly saying that this is not going to be a saigon moment. you won t see an evacuation from the roof top of the american embassy there. this is what has played out. and so now there is a disconnect between what they were saying to the public and what was happening behind the scenes. absolutely. those are the questions that we and all of the other reporters are continuously asking this
states government took with respect to afghanistan because as he said the buck stops with him. i am also taking responsibility and so are my colleague, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, directors of our intelligence agency. we as a national security team collectively take responsibility for every decision, good decisions, every decision that doesn t produce perfect outcomes. that s what responsibility is. now at the same time that doesn t change the fact that there are other parties here responsible as well. who have taken actions and decisions that help lead us to where we are. so from our perspective, what we have to do now is focus on the task at hand, the mission at hand. you mentioned chaos the at the airport yesterday. at the end of the day the question is can we effectively evacuate those people who we intend to evacuate and that s what we are planning for and executing against beginning today where the airport is secure, th