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There is a capability to go get them, but the white house isnt authorizing it. >> sean: am i hearing you correctly? is that the information that they are sharing with you is being directly contradicted publicly by the white house? that they are lying to us? they are not being totally honest? is that fair? speaker either they are lying, heartless, clueless, or all of the above, sean, but it is a very different picture from what we are hearing from jen psaki and kirby and from the president of the...

U.s. has the capability to strike back at isis. particularly they have some strongholds in the eastern part of the country kind of near towards the pakistani border, but do they have the intelligence available to carry out strikes like that? since the u.s. military has left and cia and other agencies have left as part of this drawdown for this year, the u.s. has lost a lot of their visibility about whats going on on the ground there. particularly they dont have as strong intelligence about poten...

Are going to try to put in place given the limited resources, given the cramped environment that theyre in to diminish the threat now that theyve seen sort of the first opening salvo by isis-k, but thats going to really depend on the militarys calculations and decisions to proceed forward. >> youve seen the same numbers from the state department that ive seen, though you are reporting to us from the state department. so perhaps you have seen even fresher numbers. according to them 5,000 american...

Capability to hit. the big question is would they have the intelligence? >> courtney kube for us at the pentagon today covering the briefing from general mckenzie who is making the calls on whats happening on the ground there in a moment-by-moment situation in afghanistan. courtney, we appreciate you. thank you. joining us now is illinois congressman who sits on the house intelligence committee. congressman, i want to begin by getting your thoughts about todays attack and what more youre hearing...

State back. having an interest to have a terrorist attack right now the airport in kabul? no, i doubt their capability to prevent this if push comes to shop.— their capability to prevent this if push comes to shop. when you say you doubt they have _ push comes to shop. when you say you doubt they have the _ push comes to shop. when you say you doubt they have the ability _ push comes to shop. when you say you doubt they have the ability to _ push comes to shop. when you say you doubt they have...

Times, terrorism is an around the world. we have greater threats around the world that are a lot closer than the united states, we do not have military in cannes not to keep people there, we have the capability to keep them from going after us. it is and gentlemen, it was time to end a 20 year war. thank you very much. was time to end a 20 year war. thank you very much-— you very much. many questions still for president _ you very much. many questions still for president biden _ you very much....

Understand the telegram goal is chaos and we dont know which group made this threat. is at the telegram, probably not. is a basis? is al qaeda? they certainly have the capability to shoot one of these planes out of the air. they captured devastatingly large cash of american weapons, they have their own weapons, we have to assume the worst and thats how the military planners are looking at it now, they are assuming the worst, expecting the worst and preparing a response for that. jillian: what do...

U.s. personnel, there is medical treatment capability on the the airfield. the u.s. military doesnt go anywhere without its medics. but it is always a question of whether they will have to airlift people out of there if, and it is a big if, if there are serious injuries. so this is something that well be watching very closely. were getting some initial indications that the 10:30 news conference scheduled here at the pentagon obviously may float -- may be delayed until later in the morning as the...

Sole circumference gets bigger. you need more man power to police it. i mean, they do have lots of assets. theyve got what are surveillance aircraft. they can see a great deal about whats going on. you cant tell a suicide bomber with a backpack from an evacuee with a backpack unless theyre physically searched. that was supposedly the job of the taliban that had increased the capability of the perimeter in order to top afghans getting to the airport. they failed clearly to stop bombers and other ...

So maybe well start being serious again. i think that weve exuded extraordinary weakness and that invites these kind of attacks. >> let me ask you this. the troops have already begun to leave. the deadline has been set and the president is sticking to the deadline but that deadline is when the last light is turned off in kabul by the u.s. forces that the evacuations have to end before that because, well you have to get all of the troops off the ground. is there any wiggle room, flexibility for t...