On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) reacted to the Biden administration’s Afghanistan report by stating that “Joe Biden is the kind of guy who would own up to what Harry Truman asked presidents to own up to.”
Co-host Mika Brzezinski said, “Congressman, a new White House report is mainly blaming the Trump administration for the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. It’s a twelve-page assessment released by the National Security Council yesterday.” After referencing parts of the report that blame the Trump administration and playing a clip of White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby also blaming the Trump administration, Brzezinski asked, “Congressman, many would argue that the withdrawal, actually day of, was quite chaotic and cumbersome. Is the pushback warranted?”
Himes responded, “Well, Mika, if this is an exercise in dividing blame between Joe…