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On Fox News this week, hosts have lambasted President Joe Biden for being MIA while Afghanistan falls into chaos. But the reality, according to an exclusive Axios report reveals that behind the scenes, the Biden team is scrambling to save American allies.

There is a backlog of Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) applications that the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan was rushing to process using just a skeleton staff. Now, Afghan allies are in a complicated position because the Taliban won't allow them through to the airport without the proper paperwork. Afghans can't get the paperwork unless they get the necessary documents from the Embassy staff who are at the airport.

Georgia has already removed 101,000 voters from their rolls, but now the state is moving to take over the elections in Fulton County.

Rev. Al Sharpton described it as the very definition of nullification, "spitting on the grave of Martin Luther King and John Lewis."

On Wednesday, in response to an article from a right-wing blog about how Twitter is letting the Taliban do business on their social network despite banning former President Donald Trump, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) appeared to compare the Taliban favorably to Trump, saying that they "should both be on Twitter" and are "more legitimate" than either the former government of Afghanistan or President Joe Biden's administration.

Gaetz's remarks drew outrage from commenters on social media, who tore into the congressman for suggesting that an extremist group infamous for abusing women is "legitimate". Some responders even linked the Taliban's violence against women to Gaetz's own federal sex trafficking investigation.

The chaos in Afghanistan as the United States leaves was expected by President Joe Biden, according to an interview with ABC News. But other military experts claim that it wasn't and that the steps taken ahead of this week laid the groundwork for chaos.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace showed a clip of CNN International from Tuesday evening in which President Donald Trump's former Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, explained that it was clear this was all going to happen.

In an exclusive interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, President Joe Biden revealed that he always expected the withdrawal from Afghanistan would result in the kind of chaos that was witnessed on television over the past few days.

"So you don't think this could have been handled -- this exit could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes?" asked Stephanopoulos.

Former Trump United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday attacked President Joe Biden for negotiating with the Taliban during the withdrawal of American citizens and allies -- and it instantly blew up in her face.

Writing on Twitter, Haley expressed disbelief that the Biden administration would be holding talks with the Taliban during the withdrawal.

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday seemingly reversed a statement he put out Monday in which he seemed to say that Afghans fleeing from the Taliban should be allowed refuge in the United States.

While criticizing President Joe Biden's botched handling of the evacuation of Americans and American allies in the Afghan capital of Kabul, Trump rhetorically asked, "Can anyone even imagine taking out our Military before evacuating civilians and others who have been good to our Country and who should be allowed to seek refuge?"

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) doesn't feel vindicated after Afghanistan swiftly fell back under Taliban control following the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

The California Democrat cast the lone vote against the Authorization for Use of Military Force, which passed on Sept. 14, 2001, by a 420-1 margin as the nation reeled from the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- but Lee believed then, as she does now, that more time should have been taken before sending troops into harm's way with no exit strategy and a nebulous objective, reported the Washington Post.

The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday that it is hosting former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani "on humanitarian grounds", after he fled his country amid a Taliban takeover.

Ghani's whereabouts had been unknown after he fled Afghanistan at the weekend in the face of a sweeping advance by the Taliban.

Fox News has been slipping sales plugs for his radio sponsors into reports on the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

The right-wing broadcaster has been hammering away at President Joe Biden's administration over the Taliban's swift takeover of the country after the withdrawal of American military forces, which has left thousands of Afghans desperate to escape, but Hannity has also been slyly plugging his advertisers, reported The Daily Beast.

Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay US cabinet member, on Tuesday announced he and his husband were becoming parents.

"For some time, Chasten and I have wanted to grow our family," Buttigieg, the 39-year-old US transportation secretary, tweeted.

The Taliban have offered a pledge of reconciliation, vowing no revenge against opponents and to respect women's rights in a "different" rule of Afghanistan from two decades ago.

The announcements came on Tuesday night shortly after the return to Afghanistan of their co-founder, crowning the group's astonishing comeback after being ousted by a US-led invasion in 2001.

Over the past several months, former President Donald Trump hasn't been seen much on television. He's pushed out a lot of press statements, he's called into several shows, he's spoken to a few conferences and done a few rallies, but he's largely stayed away from the Fox News interviews he once loved.

Speaking to Fox host Sean Hannity on Tuesday night, Trump patted himself on the back for the work he did in Afghanistan and attacked President Joe Biden on the work he's done since taking office.