Joe Biden has tense back-and-forth with ‘most interesting guy’ Steve Doocy of Fox News

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Joe Biden was filmed crumbling after he called on Fox News journalist Peter Doocy at a press conference, only to be accused of failing to answer Doocy’s question. 

Biden, 78, looked lost for words after being asked if he bore responsibility for an ISIS-K suicide attack at Kabul Airport on Thursday that killed 13 US service personnel, before bowing his head and clutching a file tightly around his hands.

He tried to throw a question back at Doocy about why Fox News was neglecting to mention that Donald Trump had confirmed the withdrawal when he was president.

But Doocy continued to push, with Biden visibly struggling after being pressed to take the blame for Thursday’s atrocity.  

The worrying moment began amicably, when Biden – who told reporters he had a pre-approved list of journalists he was ‘instructed to call on’ – pointed at Doocy, and branded him ‘the most interesting guy in the press.’ 

Fox News has consistently been hostile towards the Biden administration, amid claims liberal outlets have been too soft on the Democrat president.  

After working his way through a list, Doocy, who also followed Biden on the campaign trail, was one of the six members of the press the president called on.

While Biden waited for Doocy to get the mic, he smirked. Then Doocy was clear and forceful in his questions.  

‘There had not been a U.S. service member killed in combat since February of 2020,’ Doocy told him. ‘You set a deadline, you pulled troops out, you sent troops back in, and now 12 marines are dead,’ he said, using the death toll that has since been updated to confirm an extra fatality.  

‘You said the buck sops with you. Do you bear any responsibility for the way things have unfolded the last two weeks?’

Biden griped his notebook with both hands and was quick with first answer. 

‘I bear responsibility for fundamentally all that’s happened of late,’ Biden responded.  – before pointing to the deal the deal Donald Trump made with the Taliban for a May 1 departure of all U.S. troops.

‘You know – I wish one day you’d say these things,’ he told Doocy. ‘You know as well as I do that the former president made a deal with the Taliban that he would get all American forces out of Afghanistan by May 1. In return the was made – that was a year before. 

‘In return for the commitment, the Taliban would continue to attack others but would not attack any American forces. Remember that?’ he asked Doocy while pointing at him. 

‘I’m being serious. I’m asking you a question,’ he told Doocy.

Doocy made an attempt to say something but was quickly cut off by the president-  and this was the moment that Biden appeared to struggle most.  

‘Is that accurate to the best of your knowledge, yes or no,’ said Biden, trying to get Doocy to commit to an answer about the 

Doocy responded by saying, ‘Do you think the people have an issue with the way things have happened?’ 

While the Fox reporter spoke, Biden put put his face on his hands – still gripping the top of his notebook – in clear frustration.   

He lifted his head, took a breath to compose himself and answered. 

‘I think they have an issue that people are likely to get hurt. Some as we’ve seen have gotten killed, and that it is messy.

‘The reason why, whether my friend will acknowledge it or has reported it, the reason why there were no attacks on Americans as you said from the day I came into office was because a commitment was made by President Trump: I will be out by May 1. 

‘In the meantime, you agree not to attack any Americans That was the deal. That’s why no American was attacked.’

Biden seemed content with his answer and braced for the follow up question. His eyes widened and his body tensed. His hands dropped to in front of his body.  

‘So you squarely stand by your decision to pull out,’ Doocy asked. 

The president dug his heels in and demonstratively said, ‘Yes, I do.’

‘Because look at it this way folks, and I have another meeting for real. But imagine where we’d be if I had indicated on May the first that I was not going to renegotiate an evacuation date. We were going to stay there,’ he said. 

‘I’d have only one alternative: to pour thousands of troops back into Afghanistan to fight a war that we had already won relative to the reason why we went in the first place.

‘I have never been of the view that we should be sacrificing American lives to try to establish a democratic government in Afghanistan, a country that has never once in its entire history been a united country. 

‘And is made up of different tribes who have never ever ever got along with one another. So as I said before, and this is the last comment I’ll make, we’ll have a chance to talk about this unfortunately beyond because we are not out yet. 

‘And so, as I said before — and this is the last comment I’ll make, but we’ll have more chance to talk about this, unfortunately, beyond, because we’re not out yet — if Osama bin Laden, as well as al Qaeda, had chosen to launch an attack — when they left Saudi Arabia — out of Yemen, would we have ever gone to Afghanistan? Even though the Taliban completely controlled Afghanistan at the time, would we have ever gone?

‘I know it’s not fair to ask you questions. It’s rhetorical. But raise your hand if you think we should have gone and given up thousands of lives and tens of thousands of wounded.

‘Our interest in going was to prevent al Qaeda from reemerging — first to get bin Laden, wipe out al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and prevent that from happening again.

‘As I’ve said 100 times: Terrorism has metastasized around the world; we have greater threats coming out of other countries a heck of a lot closer to the United States.

‘We don’t have military encampments there; we don’t keep people there. We have over-the-horizon capability to keep them from going after us.

‘Ladies and gentlemen, it was time to end a 20-year war.’