ABC's Jon Karl on Biden admin calling Afghanistan efforts a success: 'Something that isn't reality'

ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl questioned the Biden administration's description of the evacuation effort in Afghanistan as a "success," arguing their statements are not based in reality.

However, after last Thursday's suicide bombings, which took the lives of 13 U.S. service members and 170 Afghan citizens, ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz asked her Sunday panel whether the White House can still stand behind such statements.  "Listening to President Biden and his top national security advisers, before the horrible bombing, they were making this sound like a smashing success," Raddatz said. She also cited comments earlier on the program by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said a senior Taliban leader had gone on TV to assure the Afghan people they would be "free to travel."