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CBS Skips Own Reporter Pressing WH’s John Kirby on Afghan Withdrawal Report

Monday’s White House press briefing led off with national security spokesman and frequent Karine Jean-Pierre crutch John Kirby defending the Biden-Harris administration’s deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in light of a House Foreign Affairs Committee report, arguing they’ve done plenty of soul-searching, but feel proud of what happened and want to move on.

Thankfully, a few reporters had some questions about that, including CBS’s Ed O’Keefe. Unfortunately, his bosses didn’t think they were that important as his exchange with Kirby and the wider topic were both ignored from Monday’s CBS Evening News and Tuesday’s CBS Mornings.

 

 

After starting off easy by asking whether the administration would cooperate in any future congressional investigations (to which Kirby said he was unaware of any future probes), Kirby moved to this: “Has…

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