State Department spokesman Ned Price got into a heated exchange Tuesday with Associated Press reporter Matt Lee over the Biden administration’s Afghanistan policy.
The exchange began when Price answered a question from another reporter about the Taliban’s refusal to ensure human rights for Afghans, including the barring of Afghan girls from being able to go to school. Price once again expressed the administration’s disapproval, prompting Lee to interject and ask what the president and his team are actually going to do about it.
“What are you gonna do? Will you answer my question from yesterday?” Lee asked. “I saw that some people wrote ‘Oh, the U.S. says it’s going to take some measures if the Taliban doesn’t reverse these decision.’ But what measures have you taken, or are you gonna take? You haven’t taken any even though they’ve done these offensive things that you say, going back more than a month now.
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