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Video: Biden Refuses to Answer Questions on Afghanistan, Gets Lost on Way Out During FEMA Remarks

© REUTERS / TOM BRENNERU.S. President Joe Biden makes a visit to the FEMA headquarters as Hurricane Ida makes landfall over Louisiana, in Washington, U.S., August 29, 2021.
U.S. President Joe Biden makes a visit to the FEMA headquarters as Hurricane Ida makes landfall over Louisiana, in Washington, U.S., August 29, 2021. - Sputnik International, 1920, 30.08.2021
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As the southern coast of the United States is being ravaged by Hurricane Ida, US President Joe Biden arrived at a Sunday meeting of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to deliver remarks on the major storm.
Having finished his speech at a Sunday FEMA meeting on the disastrous Hurricane Ida, Joe Biden initiated a little off-script action, offering reporters who were willing to ask questions to "go ahead" even though he was "not supposed to take any questions".
However, the mood for taking questions swiftly disappeared after the first one appeared to be about Afghanistan. 
"I'm not going to answer on Afghanistan now", Biden snapped, slapping his hand on the desk and immediately deciding to head out. 
The president had trouble finding the right direction to go and was assisted by an aide. The combination of his revelation that he was not "supposed" to do something, his refusal to take Afghanistan-related questions, along with the desk slap and the immediate departure caused some confusion and bewilderment.
​Opinions, as always, were divided on Twitter, with some lashing out at the president for refusing to speak about Afghanistan after he himself initiated the questions, and others saying that his rejection was reasonable since the meeting was dedicated to the hurricane-related crisis.
​Biden delivered his FEMA remarks as Hurricane Ida continues to shatter the Gulf Coast, particularly leaving New Orleans with a reported 100% power outage and flood warnings, and leaving hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents without power.
The situation in Kabul adds troubles for the president as well, with the Afghan capital city seeing several deadly suicide bombings on Thursday that killed 13 US soldiers and at least 169 Afghan civilians.
Amid the looming 31 August deadline for the foreign troop withdrawal from the country, the US is struggling to finish the ongoing evacuation and conducting airstrikes against Daesh*, who claimed responsibility for Thursday's suicide bombings. The latest American retaliatory strike, however, reportedly left 9 civilians dead, including 6 kids.
*Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/"Islamic State") is a terrorist organisation banned in Russia and many other nations.
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