AP reporter says Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal 'punctured the appearance... of competence'

While speaking at the Texas Tribune Festival, AP reporter Seung Min Kim spoke about the impact the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has had on the Biden presidency.

"It was a turning point for the administration in a lot of ways… and the president has defended this through and through," Kim began Saturday. "He has said that this was something that was already- this kind of process was something that was already in place because of something set up under the Trump administration. He was determined to end America's longest war. But one of the biggest problems beyond just the tragic loss of lives and the chaotic ness of the withdrawal is that it really punctured the appearance of Biden and his administration as one of competence."  Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.

"[Biden] ran on kind of restoring normalcy, restoring institutions, restoring competence in government, in which would have been a very big contrast from the Trump years. But when you look at TV, you see a withdrawal that was not handled in the way that it should have. You see the chaos, you see the death. That is not the image of, basically, of a competent White House," she continued.