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The united kingdom and into safety. notjust interpreters, but those who fought on the battlefield against the taliban, and those who fought that ideology and are therefore under significant threat. the taliban control the streets of kabul and decide who gets out. with the new advice to stay away from the airport, there are now serious questions about how this operation will end, and how many more people will make it to safety. graham satchell, bbc news. 0ur political correspondent ione wells joi...

Risky for them to be there. it is a dangerous and difficult mission. but it must be seen through and we intend to see it through as best as we can. >> now, the next problem is that it is going to take time to draw down those thousands of troops and all that is going to slow down the evacuation process, too. an attack could also put a stop to all of this. the background for, this while the taliban released thousands of prisoners when they took kabul those extremists are amongst them they may want...

And they can run it, and it is not in their interest for isis k to get bigger, which is the point that he made, and so he stands by that decision. and in terms of the evacuation, the question is, will this evacuation continue? why would america stay for even one more day, given these attacks, given the loss of life? and he said, he was very steadfast about that, he says this mission will continue and they will meet that deadline of the 31st of august. yeah, we saw a very emotional president bide...

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Administration was they took that forecast as gospel. they said, oh, our experts say the afghan government is going to survive for months, well then thats whats going to happen. they didnt do enough contingency planning. they didnt say to themselves, well, wait a second what are the chances the government is actually going to collapse in weeks or has happened, days, and whats our plan for that? and i think if theyd taken seriously the possibility the government would collapse in days, and they h...

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 >> all right, david, thank you. we have a bit more breaking news to add to this, the pentagon spokesman saying we can confirm the explosion at a gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of u.s. and civilian casuacasualties. another explosion a short distance from the abbey gate also took place. our breaking news coverage continues now with craig melvin. good thursday morning. craig melvin here. we continue to follow breaking news in afghanistan. explosion outside of ...

0 there in afghanistan. we continue our coverage right now. lets toss it over to garrett haake. garrett? >> chris jansing, thank you. im garrett haake. there has been an explosion outside the kabul airport. youre looking at live pictures of the airport. its 6:30 in the evening tonight. pentagon says casualties are still unclear at this point. we know that the president has been briefed on the explosion. he was in a preplanned national security meeting this morning. white house officials are hudd...

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...

What we do know is that president biden says more than 70,000 people have been evacuated in the past ten days. that is a stunning figure. but, a senior administration official tells cnn this a lot of deserving afghans will be left behind. overnight a source told cnn that the taliban appears to be letting some people pass through check points despite their claims no more afghan civilians will be allowed to leave the cou country. both veterans two u.s. congressmen to help get afghan troops are f...