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Misreported or garrbled. we felt it was important to correct the record with you all here. youve now seen that we have updated our casualty list to include a 13th service member killed in action. [ no audio ] i could report that two flights landed at ramstein. these personnel was transferred to the medical center and are receiving care. in kabul, commanders on ground continue to assess the risk and the dynamic situation there as they have have been since the beginning. forced protection remains ...

Would say in that question like we are giving information. what information is very important right now is at the ground level to insure that as people approach checkpoints that those taliban checkpoint leaders have and understand who is coming, what documentation they are supposed to have. thats really important for us to insure the time that people are not in areas and just, you know, staying there for long periods of time. the commanders on the ground continue to coordinate how do we continue...

Isis-k as we would perhaps have known about the taliban if they had done this. so hes going to have to deal with the intelligence challenges and then of course with the operational challenges. the terrain that isis-k inhabits is very forbidding terrain, kind of like what osama bin laden inhabited for many years during his time between afghanistan and pakistan, and thats a real big deal. >> exactly. what does it suggest about security going forward in the context of what is left of this evacuatio...

Taliban and what needs to take place is being reinforced. and so i think yes, and then your second question is of passing on specifics like what are we looking for here? what is the threat that we need you to look for? yes, that is absolutely being passed from the commanders on the ground to the taliban commanders to ensure, as mr. kirby said, we understand what to look for. we understand what the threat is to try to prevent it. >> what about targeting isis, though? >> yeah, those isis threats t...

Challenge the taliban takeover of afghanistan? i mean, its -- i think that we, from a distance, we tend -- we tend to lump these groups together. they are enemies. whats their conflict going to look like? >> isis will absolutely butt heads with the taliban. it has been doing so. in fact, over the past five years, its been conducting regular assassinations against taliban commanders, as well as foot soldiers in a range of places. not only where isis is concentrated today in afghanistan, which is ...

President biden has been criticized for relying on the taliban for airport security. he says he does not think that was a mistake. >> no one trusts them. were just counting on their self-interests to continue to generate their activities. there is no evidence thus far that ive been given as a consequence by any of our commanders in the field that there has been collusion between the taliban and isis in carrying out what happened today. >> natasha bertrand is live in washington with more. before ...

Group of people. we want you to let that bus or that group through. so, yes, there have been occasions like that. to the best of my knowledge, in those cases, the bulk of that has occurred have been let through. >> timothy, with your experience in afghanistan, are you surprised that the american military is having some successful communications like that with the taliban? >> not entirely. when we were over there, the afghan police and afghan army we were with would regularly speak with the talib...

Evidence of collusion so far between isis and the taliban in carrying out this attack but there are lingering questions whether the taliban can be considered reliable partners. general mckenzie its possible the suicide bombers got through taliban checkpoints. critics say the decisions that put americans in this position are dangerous. >> when you project weakness from the oval office as joe biden does, bad guys do bad things and we unfortunately saw that play out today and we lost 13 brave ameri...

What information is very important right now is at the ground level to ensure that as people approach check points, that those taliban checkpoint leaders have an understand who is coming, what documentation they are supposed to have. because that is really important for us to ensure that the time that people are not in areas and just staying there for long periods of time, you know, the commanders on the ground are continuing to coordinate. how do we continue to increase that through-put through...

You or john. can you just talk about the number of people that will see getting processed over the next several days. will that number gradually go down? do you have the number of people you think are going to or what is your ballpark estimate? >> on the first question on our capabilities and abilities to protect ourselves or to also conduct the strikes as you said, as ive said all along, we have resources with the centcom commander and commanders on the ground and the capabilities to allow us t...