House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasts two House members for taking an unauthorized trip to Afghanistan. The Pentagon said their unexpected visit took time away from its urgent military mission at the Kabul airport.
"There's a real concern about members being in the region," Pelosi said at a Capitol Hill press conference Wednesday."This is deadly serious. We do not want members to go."Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi holds her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C, Aug. 25, 2021.
While Pelosi said she has not spoken to either Meijer or Moulton since they returned, she noted that trips like this would require the approval of committee chairs -- and it was not approved by the Democratic side. The Pentagon echoed Pelosi's sentiment in a briefing later Wednesday, saying that it had not been aware in advance of the visit and that it"took time away" from the military operations.
"There was certainly a pull-off of the kinds of missions we were trying to do to be able to accommodate that visit," Kirby added.Pentagon spokesman John Kirby speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Aug. 25, 2021."We are obviously not encouraging VIP visits to a very tense, dangerous and dynamic situation at that airport and inside Kabul generally.
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