FBI PUBLIC AFFAIRS - DIRECTOR'S AM NEWS BRIEFING

FBI PUBLIC AFFAIRS - DIRECTOR'S AM NEWS BRIEFING TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2021 5:00 AM EDT Media Analyses: "Defiant" President Defends Withdrawal, Blames Others For Chaos. President Biden returned to Washington on Monday, and addressed the nation on the situation in Afghanistan in a speech that was commonly described as "defiant." In addition, a focus of much of the coverage was the President's moves to shift blame for the situation to others, such as the Afghan government and former President Donald Trump. The CBS Evening News (8/16, 6:35 p.m. EST, story 2, 3:00, O'Donnell, 3.55M) reported President Biden "said today that staying in Afghanistan is not in America's national security interests. The mission is to prevent another attack on the American homeland and it has been a decade since the death of Osama Bin Laden." CBS (Jiang) added, in coverage interspersing video of the President speaking with scenes from Afghanistan, "President Biden took little responsibility for his admini