Jen Psaki at an appearance in New York in May. Photo: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
🎤 Biden's former press secretary Jen Psaki will sit for an interview this month in the House Foreign Affairs Committee's probe into the U.S. military's exit from Afghanistan, according to a letter from her lawyer to the panel obtained by Axios.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chair of the committee, is set to release a report on Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan before the Nov. 5 election.
It could contain politically damaging information about the withdrawal, which included the deaths of 13 U.S. soldiers in a bombing at the Kabul airport.
The panel's probe has unearthed inconsistencies between what Biden and the White House were saying publicly, and what was happening on the ground.
🚗 Driving the news: Psaki, now with MSNBC, agreed to an interview after a lengthy back-and-forth that started last fall — and once McCaul made clear he was willing to subpoena her to appear.
McCaul contacted Psaki's team in September 2023, engaging with her team and the White House counsel's office.
📖 His team renewed his request several months later, after Axios reported Psaki had falsely recounted a key episode of the withdrawal in her recent memoir.
