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Jennifer Griffin pushes back on Biden’s ‘alternate reality’ on Afghanistan evacuation<\/h4>\n

Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin says she couldn’t fact-check the president’s ‘misrepresentations’ of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan fast enough during his speech.<\/p>\n

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin contradicted President Biden on Friday, telling House lawmakers on a phone call that multiple Americans trying to reach the Kabul airport have been beaten by Taliban fighters, two lawmakers told Fox News.  <\/p>\n

Austin called the beatings “unacceptable,” a person on the phone call told Fox News. Austin’s remarks starkly contrasted with what Biden told reporters after his speech on Friday. <\/p>\n

When asked about reports that some Americans were being blocked from reaching Hamid Karzai International Airport for evacuation, Biden denied that any Americans were having such trouble. <\/p>\n

Austin’s comments, which were first reported by Politico, marked the second time that the Biden administration contradicted what Biden told the public in his speech Friday. <\/p>\n

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby conceded that al Qaeda does have a “presence” in Afghanistan, even though Biden said that the terrorist group is “done” in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n

Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich contributed reporting <\/p>\n

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