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Grateful injured, other people pulling them out of the wastewater. and then ambulances coming in to take the wounded away and try to treat them. it will slow down pace of evacuations because one gate, i wouldnt say it is totally taken out of operation, but it has certainly caused a degree of chaos. theyll try to step up security. they did have a specific threat, seems like that specific threat was carried out. if it was isis, it is isis trying to put themselves back on the map, to do exactly wha...

0 >> karen greenburg, thanks so much. that does it for this edition. chuck todd is up next with "mtp daily" only on msnbc. well, dont worry, andrea, youre not going very far. were coming back to you in a moment. welcome back to "mtp daily." a pair of explosions rocked kabul, have tloefr the u.s. evacuation efforts into turmoil, just five days before president bidens agreed to deadline to get americans out. u.s. officials tell nbc news at least three marines were wounded in the attack outside t...

Agreement before january when the new house will shiftily pass legislation to reopen government. does it surprise you, joe, having observed politics in this town that republicans would hand democrats so easy a win as to be able to take credit for putting 800,000 government workers back to work? >> theyre controlled by the base part of their base. they are controlled by a tiny minority opinion that is not reflected in the country at large. but thats over. so they almost cant help themselves. in a...

Beyond washington, how this shakes out in terms of governorships. what will that tell us about the direction of the country? >> well, the same -- it will be part of the whole election narrative. and this is an election where republicans came in, they had two big challenges. they had to turn out their base and they have a challenge with independent voters, particularly women. i think the base part of that challenge has been met. remains to be seen how we do with independents and with women voters...

Wealth of this country. they are ordinary people. i look around. i see too many undeserving people at the top getting bailouts. and i see too many undeserving people at the bottom getting handouts. im stuck in the middle. i cant pay if i remember because my health insurance is going up, taxes have gone up. but ill tell you what hasnt gone up, my income. and theyre angry. and theyre on both sides of the aisle. theyre bernie sanders supporters and donald trump supporters. we need to help the ameri...

Familiar with him. this speaks to authenticity. >> there are 17 republican candidates. bernie sanders can get into the 40s. i agree with you completely about he speaks his mind hes authentic and fun. they view him as pure on the base part. if you get into the 40s, something else is happening there. >> if you are biden, authenticity is hot right now. nobody is more authentic as biden, gets him in trouble all the time. hes run twice before didnt work out well. given the mood and the fact clinton i...

Amendments. they will keep loading them with amendments and theyre concerned about some of the amendments actually passing. as of right now it doesnt look like any of them will. it is very interesting, though, to see who votes for these amendments because a lot of these senators, democratic senators, are highly rated with the n.r.a. and theyre risking that rating and they dont want to risk it. >>gretchen: it is my understanding the base of the bill will could have universal background checks and...

Is something that quite frankly is something that in many ways we cant afford. >> but then we have sort of the complex problem like for instance, pakistan who has been nothing but nasty to us in so many ways. they have horrible floods or earthquakes, we want to go give them humanitarian aid and have them attempt to at least like us so another rogue nation doesnt move in and help with al-qaeda and afghanistan. its a terribly difficult and delicate balancing act, would you agree? >> it is a very d...

Is something that quite frankly is something that in many ways we cant afford. >> but then we have sort of the complex problem like for instance, pakistan who has been nothing but nasty to us in so many ways. they have horrible floods or earthquakes, we want to go give them humanitarian aid and have them attempt to at least like us so another rogue nation doesnt move in and help with al-qaeda and afghanistan. its a terribly difficult and delicate balancing act, would you agree? >> it is a very d...