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>> reporter: biden planning to call the families of the 13 dead, officials say. yet, the white house remains primarily focused on two missions. evacuating remaining americans and afghan allies by the looming august 31st deadline. >> i think our focus right now is on doing everything we can to get the remaining american citizens who want to depart out of the country. >> reporter: and now, hunting down those who perpetrated the attack. >> we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you d...

Congressman, thanks for joining us. you have said that president biden made the proper decisions along the way. given the terrorist attack yesterday, do -- do you stand by that statement? do you really think there wasnt a better, more organized way to exit? >> there probably was but it wasnt going to happen. nobody anticipated the complete collapse, disappearance of the afghan government. it just simply was gone, and then all of the plans that had been made were not going to be executable. and a...

Video, this package that we are doing does contain some pretty upsetting content. >> reporter: crowd control, taliban style. a day after 13 american service members, two british citizens, and at least 170 afghans were killed by a suicide bomber, afghans are still trying to get to kabuls airport and to freedom. just over the blast walls, the mission continues. nearly 13,000 people flown out in 24 hours. the wounded american service members have been transferred to regional medical center in germa...

Facing the most stark crisis of his administration. >> the mission there being performed is dangerous. and now, its come with significant loss of american personnel. >> reporter: and the reality that things are likely to get worse. >> this is the most dangerous part of the mission. >> reporter: bidens national security team warning in a morning situation room briefing quote, another terror attack in kabul is likely. military commanders calling the days leading up to the august 31st withdrawal de...

Our troops are still in danger and they are taking the steps they are taking to save lives and evacuate people because of their commitment to the mission. >> reporter: and, jake, that mission is still extraordinarily reliant on the taliban even in the wake of that attack where u.s. officials know that the attackers got through taliban checkpoints. the reality, white house officials say, is it is a necessity at this point in time. it is the only way they have gotten more than 100,000 evacuees out...