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Knew more about the attack than they were letting on, listen here. >> i would not be surprised if this isis-k is a front for the taliban who are organizing the attack against us. to humiliate us further after we surrendered to a terrorist organization. >> john: tough talk from the president well hunt them down and make them pay. there seems to be increased urgency to gets american forces out by the deadline of august 31, which does serve the talibans purposes. >> exactly. look, the taliban does ...

Our objective and first priority and focus on diplomatic path forward, that is where were putting our energy this point in time. go ahead. >> there have beg your pardon a lot of questions about this, i want to try to get clarity around after august 31, for people who still be on the ground in afghanistan and want to get out, does the u.s. right now have a vision of a process they will use to get people out after august 31? what is the commitment after august 31? is it absolute, if you want to ge...

>> sec. of state psaki: we are working to improve conditions for people coming to the country. our security vetting process is so thorough that even as people are vetted before they come, go through a background check we implement checks including confirmation, in some cases, on landing. we check manifest and limited number of cases, we have vetting processes that may be be unresolved. very limited, may lead to a delay in an individual being held on the plane so we can have that process seen thr...

Inherent danger, just to be participating in the process. im talking about our citizens and our afghan partners. but this will come to an end on the 31st. the president has made up his mind thats it. when we leave afghanistan, given implication what has taken place here, taliban takeover, didnt set conditions in place to prevent, we now know the u.n. is reporting somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 to 10,000 terrorists in afghan, beyond the taliban. we have said this is going to become an epicent...

Evaktuations safely? >> they ark just and make adjustments on the ground. commanders on the ground do in order to keep troops safe, in order to successfully evacuate more people from the country. we will not get into details from here. it is important to note and reiterate, you will see reduction in numbers over the next couple days, they are beginning retrograde process. they will be mindful of keepingly men and women in the military safe to the degree they can. >> we have seen images of servic...

Or -- military and white house only option given -- >> sec. of state psaki: maybe both. i will say, i wont get into semantic debate, it is worth repeating as often as i can, we dont trust the taliban. this is not about trust. there is reality on the ground. the reality is taliban control large swaths of afghanistan, including area surrounding the perimeter of the airport. that is our option to get individuals eligible for the range program the united states has out. we have evacuated more than 1...

Nation when we see what has happened, general keane, first weve been able to speak with you since all this happened and learned of the 13 service members that died in this attack. we know that the airlift operations continue. its a massive effort. the priority still to get americans off the ground there. general keane, walk us through what the next few days look like as we approach tuesday, august 31st and what the days following up to the deadline may look like? >> we have our hands full, we ar...

>> bret: right. we may physically leave. we are going to speedup this process and there will be a time when the music stops and all the military leaves. however, leon panetta is right. were going to be back in there to play whack-a-mole with terrorist groups that pop up and are a threat to us. the war on the ground in afghanistan may be over for a short time, the war against terrorism is not over and really, if you talk to most people, it cant be. one more point, president biden in the meeting w...

Airport. by necessity, that is our option to coordinate with to get american citizens out, to gets our afghan partners out, individuals eligible for the range of programs the united states has out. we have evacuated 105,000 people as result of those coordinated in large part of the coordinated efforts of getting people out. i will say that as department of defense noted earlier today, clearly something went wrong here in the process. we saw the isis-k attack occur yesterday. we dont have additio...

Departments were left to themselves. they would have been operating off the same sheet of music and having resolved issues at the beginning, not the end. weve seen this, evidence of the special visa program for afghan allies, a disaster. no effort to -- shut down bagram air force base as jake ellzey said, big mistake. no -- sloppy process of planning and execution and were seeing finger pointing as a result. >> john: yesterday the president held the news conference and peter doocy asked the ques...