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His university and are beating up students and he believes that theyre going to be killed as soon as the media leaves. >> look, we understand the students certainly of the american university and others especially female students have been burning their documentation. they dont want to be seen as students affiliated with americans or women affiliated with education at all. i was talking with a family of green card holders who also -- green card holders, who have not been able to get through a ta...

Then two hours later, the north gate is closed. or the abby gate is open right now. but sorry theres shootings right now. tell people to go away. and its been hourly non-stop changing. theres been so much violence on the streets. theres been so much just restrictiveness and and horror around these taliban check points. and its just been absolutely crushing to see, you know, people who werent able to get their passport in time before kabul fell. theyve been working on their visa paper work for mo...

House, thank you. let me go to the pentagon. hit the main check points. lets go to the pentagon, courtney kube. do we have any new information or details on the attacks themselves? do we have more information, finding out more details of who is wounded, are americans part of the casualty count. what more information have you got? >> americans are part of the casualty count. the military includes casualty to be wounded and killed. what we know so far is there were three u.s. marines that were inj...

Are afghan sids getting through check points to the airport? are you discouraging them from doing that? what is the situation on the ground in that perimeter? >> i would say we are giving very specific direction to individuals, american citizens and others on when they should come to the airport, where they should meet, how they should come to the airport. we will not outline or detail those from here or any public manner, but that is the direction we would be giving to people, to pay attention ...

Difficulties that u.s. troops have faced in the jobs that they have been doing over the last week or so. >>. >> the principle difficulty is that they are face to face with the taliban. sometimes almost within touching distance. running the last check points as they allow passengers or evacuees to come to the gates. and then theyre completely exposed. and there are times when they reach over the walls. weve seen it time and again. theyre very exposed there. often with their rifles at their ready....

How do you get as many of those people out as fast as you can while youre also beginning to evacuate the military, which creates further risk in the coming days. thats a very difficult task and dealing with a complex security environment. i think part of what youve seen in recent days too is less clearing of people at the check points and more trying to find ways to bring people into the airport in convoys so theres less exposure of people having to be cleared in a chaotic scene at the gates of ...

0 cant operate in the same way and the afghans they worked with is not assessable. and now to try to find the people responsible for this attack or future attacks is a much more different position. >> to our viewers just as i took the baton from alicia mendez, i am going to pass it to ari melber. we thank our guests, peter baker and greg mire. well be going live to jen psaki as the president departures from the east room heading back to the oval office. jen psaki will take many, many questions, ...

0 your fine men and women, 18 died and was a preview of coming attractions. now in afghanistan, where this year not a single u.s. soldier had died or even been wounded, thats broken today with the death of 12 and 15 inches. >> -- pentagon calling it a complex terror attack. saying two isis suicide bombers were responsible. a team of reporters will give us updates throughout the hour. first chilling news saying he expects the did he doily isis attacks to continue. >> let isis break through the ch...

0 operation, which says you have some fidelity on the intelligence. thats different than a lot of what i saw. bottom line, if they had that fidelity, eventually they will find these guys. all right. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to our viewers here around the united states and around the world. the horrific attack outside the kabul airport. moments ago, president biden honored the heroes of the mission in afghanista...

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...