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Charge of her security they got by the taliban checkpoints and moved into a large group of u.s. troops and detonated a bomb they detonate a bomb by the hotel which is used by defense contractors and journalist and westerners and led armed security guard towers close to the airport last week 169 americans were rescued from the hotel and that was a prime soft target. ainsley: yesterday we got word joe biden was going to speak at 5:00 oclock we turned on the tv to watch his press conference and the...

Get back to the savings? [ everyone agreeing ] >> fox news alert. president biden is facing furious criticism for the terror attack in kabul that took the lives of 13 american troops and 169 afghans. some critics are now squarely blaming the president, saying his decision led to the deadly and catastrophic ending to americas longest war. that is still unfolding at this hour. this is "outnumbered." im kayleigh mcenany. former state department spokes person morgan ortegas.

Chopped off on national television. thats when president obama and his team decided to do something about isis. this team maybe thought well have a couple years before the terrorists start to take over again. instead, youre seeing immediately isis attacks on our troops. im focused on outcomes and what we can do going forward. i have a a lot of thoughts about that, that hopefully we can get into during the show. the counter terrorism plan of what were going to do in afghanistan has to be in place...

Off in kabul real questions about the fate of hundreds of americans and thousands of a gains seeking to escape the country, one of the explosions directly outside the baron hotel where one week ago american citizens secretly congregated for the largest extraction effort made public to this point. >> just yesterday there were 169 americans who we got over the wall and into the airport using military assets. s. >> reporter: jake, the scale of the challenges that president biden will have to addres...

Peter, thank you very much. i want to go to sam kiley in doha right now. talking to nick paton walsh and hes talking about where this is all taking place, laying out very clearly kind of the map of the abbey gate and the corridor and the baron hotel and im reminded that the baron hotel which the pentagon is saying that the explosion, the second explosion was near or outside of, the baron hotel is also the site of one of those helicopter evacs of i believe it was american citizens being taken fro...

Jennifer griffin if youre there. >> weve just learned of a second explosion that occurred near abbey gate. this one is near the baron hotel where americans had gathered in the past for rescue operations. but i can confirm not only have there been american casualties among service members, at least three, but also now there was a second explosion. that is why officials were telling me this was a complex suicide attack that involved now we know two explosions. >> bill: you mentioned the barron hot...

Evacuation and it really sets a big question right now what does the biden administration do with the thousands of u.s. troops still there? and what do they do with the more than 1,000 americans who are on the ground not only stranded in kabul, but across the rest of the country? the second explosion location at the barron hotel was where many foreigners were staying, including americans. you might remember last friday when that first public operation was conducted by american forces, 169 people...

Pentagon about this terrible attack this morning. the attack itself was complex, as joey jones was describing. there was first a suicide bombing outside of kabul airport as there was a sea of people trying to get out of kabul. there were u.s. marines on the walls and u.s. troops on the ground and u.s. state department officials trying to check paperwork of those trying to get on planes. thats when the suicide bomber went off. after that, there was a car bomb that went off about two yards away at...

169 americans rescued. great news. this is how they had to do it. they flew three chinook helicopters, giant aircraft. they flew them 200 yards from the airport in order to get the rendezvous point for the 169 americans to take them over the wall of the airport to get them out. 200 yards was the distance they traveled. really gives you a sense of whats happening here. >> dana: it probably felt like 2 million yards in terms of -- >> bill: very true. you hear isis k, koreston. we hadnt heard of th...

An evacuation there at the airport? >> look, we are now going into a period of retrograde for the u.s. military. they cant just pack up and leave in a matter of a day. it will take a number of days for the united states military to withdraw from afghanistan. today is thursday. withdraw date is tuesday. so u.s. forces will have to leave over the weekend and thats if they completely cease operations. there is no indication now that theyll stop evacuating people despite the two explosions. one inte...