Psaki plans to have a discussion with the House panel regarding the Afghanistan withdrawal

Jen Psaki, former White House press secretary under President Joe Biden, has agreed to meet with the House Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss the administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Currently hosting a show on MSNBC, Psaki will participate in a transcribed interview on July 26.

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chair of the committee, had been requesting a meeting with Psaki since last September. It took Psaki nine months to respond to McCaul’s request, who had threatened her with a subpoena if she did not appear.

Psaki’s appearance is subject to approval by the White House, with McCaul expecting resolution by June 26.

Psaki recently released a book about her time in the Biden White House, claiming that President Joe Biden never looked at his watch during the transfer ceremony for the 13 American soldiers killed in Kabul in 2021 during the withdrawal, according to McCaul.

“The committee is keen on understanding the diplomatic and information transmission failures that led to misrepresentations regarding coordination with allies, contingency planning, the foreseeability of Afghanistan’s collapse, and the safety of Americans and allies in Afghanistan,” McCaul wrote in his letter. “As a former public servant and now a private citizen in the public sphere, you have a duty to appear before Congress when called upon.”

The Biden administration has defended the way it handled the Afghanistan withdrawal, despite the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and nearly 200 Afghan civilians in a suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport by an ISIS-K terrorist.

The Pentagon’s investigation into the bombing concluded that the attack was “not preventable,” despite witness accounts suggesting that the attacker could have been stopped.