CNN anchor Brianna Keilar pressed a White House official during a Monday interview on why President Biden hasn't yet delivered a public address about the Taliban taking Afghanistan's capital of Kabul, asking, "Where is the president?"
Keilar spoke with White House Deputy National Security Adviser Jonathan Finer in an interview Monday morning after the Taliban captured Kabul on Sunday. White House officials are "discussing how Biden should address the Taliban's rapid rise to power," NBC News reports. In the Monday interview, though, Keilar pressed Finer on why this hasn't yet happened.
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