"We've been in constant contact with the Taliban leadership on the ground in Kabul," President Biden said on Aug. 20 in response to a question by PBS NewsHour's Meredith Lee about plans to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies from the country. "There's no way in which we'd be able to leave Afghanistan without there being some of what you are seeing now," Biden said.

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