Unavoidable...

Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan has led to scenes of pandemonium in Afghanistan, with as many as 11,000 Americans and tens of thousands of endangered Afghans scrambling to evacuate the country.

 Scenes of civilians swamping planes on the runway at the Kabul airport, desperate for escape, have triggered bipartisan criticism that the Biden administration handled the hasty exit poorly.

 President Joe Biden stood firm in his defense of the United States' withdrawal, and asserted for the first time that he believes the chaos was unavoidable.

"Now exactly what happened, I've not priced in," he said. "But I knew that they're going to have an enormous  Look, one of the things we didn't know is what the Taliban would do in terms of trying to keep people from getting out.  

What are they doing now? They're cooperating, letting American citizens get out, American personnel get out, embassies get out, et cetera, but they're having -- we're having some more difficulty having those who helped us when we were in there."