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As we reported before the break, the u.s. embassy in kabul is once again warning americans to immediately leave the gates outside hamid karzai international airport. its a chilling repeat of the warning that preceded yesterdays bombing. its yet more pressure on the biden administration. here to talk about how this president operates in moments like this, cnn contributor and author of "joe biden, the life, the run and what matters now." evan, we spoke briefly yesterday how personal these deaths a...

What can we do? so i called the department of education, our congress people, everyone, and congressman issa called me within five minutes. >> wow. superintendent, i appreciate all your efforts and well continue to stay in touch with you. thanks so much. >> thank you, anderson. >> in his news conference this evening, president biden said, quote, i bear responsibility for fundamentally all that has happened of late. no doubt the first full-blown crisis of his administration. i want to get some pe...

President, joe biden, the life, the run, and what matters now. evan, clearly a very difficult day for this white house. not perhaps the most difficult so far for president biden, not to mention the u.s. military and this country. what do you make of his comments addressing the attack? >> well, you just looked at his body language. he was shaken. this is precisely the scenario hes been trying to avoid, talking about for days that the longer they stay on the ground, the more u.s. service members a...

Theyre not going to allow themselves to be drawn back into an unbounded mission that exposes americans again to further risks. if anything, and its hard to say this explicitly today, but they see this as a kind of, i would say, a kind of hideous confirmation of why theyre so determined to pull out. because the risks of staying longer, of trying to figure out a short-term solution are not as obvious as it might seem just casually looking at it from the outside. >> it is a sickening day. evan, app...

Names did ping on some watch lists, something that raised a flag. what they did is they investigated those people. in some cases, planes are waiting, people are waiting on planes 8, 10 hours to be screened. there is a tremendous amount of work. the fbi has a command center going 24/7 where theyre trying to get these names through so they can review these people before they are allowed into the country. >> yeah. well, we have to see where this goes. a lot of time and a lot of folks they have to p...

Outside. >> it is a sickening day. evan, appreciate it. coming up next, the group isis-k that we talked much about tonight has claimed responsibility for the attacks in kabul. ill talk to the pulitzer prize winner author of a definitive book about isis.

Will try to push through and get closer because of this rapidly reducing window. but the hope has to be where we get to the 30th of august and there is minimal loss of life. >> nick, thank you very much. lets get some more insight right now from cnn international diplomatic editor nick roberts, along with retired major general spider marks. and kaitlyn collins is back with us from the white house. evan, president biden is standing firmly on this august 31st withdrawal. are you getting a better s...

President to extend this deadline. we have heard from a lot of democrats on capitol hill as well who say they do not think it is enough time. president biden seems to think it is, barring any disruptions by the taliban, any major disruptions. so that really remains to be seen. it is going to be a critical seven days here at the white house. >> certainly is. evan, the president, he came into office, as all of us know, as the image of a world leader with deep foreign policy experience, expertise. ...

Every day were trying to work on new and innovative means to guarantee safe passage, so we have been able to work, for instance, with qatar to use their resources to get people to kabul. when you are talking about parts of afghanistan that the taliban has controlled for years, thats much more difficult. we sent out a notice to american citizens back in may that they should leave the country. many didnt, and admittedly for those that are far outside of kabul, it is going to be very, very hard to ...

Step in vowing legal action to protect school leaders battling desantis over masks. >> were not going to sit by as governors try to block and intimidate educators protecting our children. >> reporter: but desantis is refusing to budge on school policy seeming to relish a fight with the white house over schools. >> seriously if the federal government can come in and overrule the rights of the parents with covid and force masking of kindergartners and first graders given how covid is such a small ...