Vice President Kamala Harris said evacuating Americans and U.S. allies in Afghanistan is the administration’s 'highest priority' while answering reporters’ questions in Vietnam on Thursday.
She reiterated the U.S. has already evacuated more than 80,000 people since the Taliban took Kabul earlier this month.
Asked what the U.S. will do to help women and children in the country specifically, she said she has spent her"entire career on the protection of women and children."She said the administration was working with allies to ensure"we keep a focus on this issue to do everything we can" regarding evacuations and to protect women living in the region.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris meets with civil society change makers who work on LGBT, transgender, and disability rights and climate change, at the U.S. Chief of Mission's residence in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. She also held an event earlier in the day with LGBTQ and climate change activists and met with the country’s prime minister and president on Wednesday, promising an additional 1 million Pfizer vaccine doses to the country on top of the 5 million already sent.
Harris avoided the unscripted gaffes that overshadowed her first foreign trip, to Guatemala and Mexico in the spring, where her declaration to migrants —"do not come" — and her flip dismissal of questions about her refusal to visit the border drew criticism from both sides of the aisle. Harris took questions from reporters at multiple points that trip and sat for an extended cable news interview.
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