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Attack while u.s. personnel are on the ground. he has made clear the evacuation mission will continue. he is not has dating at all on the august 31st withdrawal, sticking to that timeline. but just in the 12 hours over the course of today, even after the attack, more than 7,000 individuals were evacuated. the planes are still going in and out that. is expected to continue. the white house says they still have the goal of getting every single american who wants to leave afghanistan out of afghani...

Themselves affiliated with the islamic state. and the us has been conducting significant counterterrorism actions against isis in afghanistan since that time, killing... this is not a new dynamic in afghanistan. theyve been around for, again, about six years, they have conducted horrific attacks into kabul before, and afghan government was unable to stop that, and clearly now the taliban has to deal with that challenge going forward. and as we saw today they have so far proven unable to stop it ...

Were back with more on todays breaking news out of afghanistan. the pentagon confirming that 12 u.s. service members were killed and 15 more were injured in todays attack at the kabul airport. we are waiting for president biden scheduled to address the attack shortly. lets turn to "washington post" national security reporter john hudson. john, how will this impact the dynamic between the taliban and u.s. forces currently on the ground? >> ill tell you one way its impacting that dynamic right now...

It does seem that the taliban at the moment are not -- and it is perhaps beyond the writ of anyone to be able to control afghanistan fully, but the guarantees that theyve given dont hold water. this is a very precarious moment to be leaving the country, which no doubt we will, but to be leaving it in the hands of the taliban in such a mess with so many dynamic globally affecting consequences that can flow from it. >> general clark, if one of the contingency plans that president biden decides to ...

0 casualties are unclear at this time. we will provide additional details when we can. we also learned moments ago that president biden has been briefed on that explosion outside of kabul airport. a white house official tells cnn. and we are waiting on a pentagon press briefing which will happen in about 30 minutes from now. the back ground on this, as you look at a live picture from the kabul airport, that in recent days and yesterday we reported the u.s. has been very concerned about a credibl...

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...

Including some members of the squad who said that they were not prepared to vote yes on the infrastructure bill on september 27th unless reconciliation is that a good place. that is a key dynamic your, chris, that the moderates got the concession they want to speed up the timeline but at the end of the day progressive still hold leverage in terms of shaping this. and that is ultimately the play. its all about leverage to shape the reconciliation bill, the infrastructure bill is hanging, the prog...

Interesting, as someone who has covered the dynamics for 15 years now, it does seem to me like that caucus, the moderates, the so-called moderates, the centrist, are holding fewer cards than they used to, or the sort of wait of the caucus has shifted a little bit. what do you think? >> that is absolutely true, chris. back to 2009 and 2010, when i first moved to d.c. and started covering congress, it was the moderate blue dot coalition that called the shots. they made, they extracted serious scal...

To attack the common sense and safety measures and battle with scientists and take a different tactic than what you saw from trump. we are seeing lacking vaccine rates that are battered with cases. the larger dynamic here actually is important to consider. we talk a lot about covid in the last two years. there was a longer running war on science, over universities to the republican senators. >> we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, i asked the chair, do you know what thi...

People who know that the end is coming. so we may see another rush as we saw the first couple of days of people trying to get out. but then youre going to go into the final phase, which is going to be the toughest one. thats where you have to determine as a commander on the scene who you keep behind in terms of your forces and the consulate officials from the embassy and who you put on planes to get the heck out of there. so it would be sort of a modulation of those that are working with the n.e...