President Joe Biden was seen placing his head onto his hands during a news conference following questions about the recent Kabul attack in Afghanistan.
Biden's address on Thursday came after 13 US servicemen - including 12 Marines and one Navy medic - were killed following an attack by an ISIS-K suicide bomber earlier in the day.
As reported by ABC News, the attack took place at Kabul airport's Abbey Gate as evacuation efforts continued. As well as the 13 US troops, at least 170 Afghans were killed, along with two Brits and the child of a British citizen.
While speaking to reporters in the White House Briefing Room, Biden was asked the following question by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy:
"Mr. President, there had not been a US service member killed in combat in Afghanistan since February of 2020. You set a deadline. You pulled troops out. You sent troops back in. And now 12 Marines are dead. You said the buck stops with you. Do you bear any responsibility for the way that things have unfolded in the last two weeks?"
Responding to Doocy - whom Biden had described as "the most interesting guy he knew in the press" - the President said: "I bear responsibility for, fundamentally, all that’s happened of late."
Biden then continued to discuss an agreement made between the Trump Administration and the Taliban, saying: "But here’s the deal: You know — I wish you’d one day say these things — 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 commitment was made — and that was a year before — in return, he was given a commitment that the Taliban would continue to attack others, but would not attack any American forces."
The POTUS then asks Doocy if he "remembered that".
After a back-and-forth between the pair - some of which was not picked up by pool microphones - President Biden could be seen slowly placing his head onto his hands.
Following Biden's gesture of apparent exacerbation, Doocy asked: "Do you think that people have an issue with pulling out of Afghanistan, or just the way that things have happened?"
"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."
Biden then continued to reference President Trump's deal with the Taliban not to attack US forces.
The exchange between the pair came to a close after Doocy asked Biden if he stood by his decision to pull out of Afghanistan, to which the President replied: "Yes, I do."
In his closing statements to the room, Biden told reporters: "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."