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Every day the type of weapons they are using, their targets. i think thats not the reason. its more trying to keep the coalition together and thats good. the other hand, you have to lead the coalitions and i hope thats what president biden will be able to do. >> john: the russians deny they targeted civilians, and killed ten people in a bread line in chernihiv, whether it was with a shell or a mortar, and a theater that was once there is no longer there, but let me ask you in terms of defensive ...

>> very true. general milley, not a righteous strike. jen psaki it proves that unfortunately tragically it does not work. a key piece of information here, harris, is that general milley said we made a mistake. there is now new reporting from the "new york post" that shows the c.i.a. was attempting to alert the military to the fact that there were likely kids in the car. unfortunately it seems the hell fire missile was already fired. within the fog of that moment somebody within our intelligence ...

Acknowledgement of their familys innocence, their only solace. nic robertson, cnn, kabul, afghanistan. >> heart breaking. sources tell cnn that moments before the u.s. drone strike hit killing the civilians in kabul the cia issued an urgent warning that children might be in the target vehicle. i want to bring in cnns katie beau willis she covers intelligence and national security issues. how did this happen, katie. >> what we learned, pam, just after the military fires this hell fire missile at ...

Action taken to the military. jacqui: griff, hoping to get help from the state department. trey has been in kabul with the story and efforts to get them out. what are you hearing, trey? >> well, jacqui, today we have an update on civilians who were killed in the drone strike last month. the united states admitted they killed 10 civilians in afghanistan and this is the story of the innocent afghans. >> this is where he sat with me and when i saw it, im so confused and so sad. >> his daughter mali...

An error. >> and this strike thought it was an imminent threat to our evacuees at the airport. it was a mistake and i offer my sincere apology. >> three days after 13 americans were killed in a suicide attack at the kabul airport. general mckenzie anticipated more attacks, 10 innocent civilians were killed including seven children on the strike. it was called a blind strike and it shattered a white toyota corolla in eight hires with a hell fire missile destroying the vehicle. these drones must f...

Compound of this u.s.-based ngo where he worked at where they were filling up water containers. he had no running water at his home. he had been doing this for months. so what the u.s. military was seeing from the sky was men lifting heavy packages to the car. they thought they were explosives, but they were water containers. he drives into the family compound and a u.s. official with knowledge of the operation told us that they watched the compound for four to five minutes before they decided t...

They say they believed it was part of the early stages of a follow-on isis attack. they say they believed that car visited an isis safe house. so the u.s. military had that drone drop a hell fire missile on that white sedan, and the pentagon quickly announced the strike. they claimed credit for it, claiming they successfully eliminated a threat to the kabul airport. the "new york times" reported the identity of the driver oaf that white car. he was an electrical engineer, a long-time worker for ...

Texas. customs and border patrol officers call it a situation that is out of control tonight. and the presidents so-called over the horizon counter-terrorism strategy in the wake of the afghanistan withdrawal is in question this evening, real quell. senior pentagon officials now admit a drone strike, the white house celebrated at first as a major victory against isis, actually did kill almost a dozen civilians including an aide worker and 7 children. but no terrorists. lucas tomlinson starts us ...

They followed him for the next eight hours until 4:53 when they decided to fiere this hell fire missile on a family compounds believing it was two men. him and what turned out to be his son who come up to the car but later, we learned from u.s. officials with knowledge of this attack that they had seen three children after they fired that missile. listening to general mckenzie, he said that among -- after further analysis, they saw other obscure forms. they were other children. you have three me...

Strike on a car in kabul just hours before u.s. troops left the country. the u.s. military has claimed from the beginning that it hit a legitimate and imminent terrorist target, but cnns investigation is raising significant doubts about the u.s. governments account of what happened that day. and that is where we begin this morning. cnn correspondent anna core in, she has been following this now with the latest. anna, i was speaking to u.s. military officials the day of the strike. they were conf...