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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...

"the washington post," the intel community is now claiming that the covid origins probe has proven inconclusive. your reaction to that? your old intel community, john? >> well, i am not surprised that the biden administration is continuing to approach this in a way that china is not the bad guy. look, i have seen all of the intelligence up until eight months ago when i left the office as the director of national intelligence, and all of the intelligence, laura, what i can tell you is that is all...

Two big issues, we will afghanistan in a moment but breaking moments ago from the washington post intel community is claiming the covert origins programs proven inconclusive is your reaction to that? >> im not surprised the biden administration is continuing to approach this in a way that china is not the bad guy. ive seen the intelligence up until eight month ago when i left the officers director of national intelligence and all of the intelligence, what i can so he was all on one side of the l...

Taliban lead afghanistan once again become a pariah state, but if i had to bet can i think its probably where we are going to end up. iiruilieii where we are going to end up. when ou are in where we are going to end up. when you are in charge _ where we are going to end up. when you are in charge of— you are in charge of counterterrorism, you had troops on the ground there, you had that formidable oversight of the us embassy, which was an intelligence hub. he had oversight from the planes that...

About terrorist threats to the united states. those fears are intensified by the declining intelligence capabilities on the ground. brian todd has the details. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are expressing concerns about a potential long term terror threat to the u.s. homeland amid the fallout over the talibans victory in afghanistan. an isis affiliate already posing a threat to u.s. personnel on the ground. >> what is present in afghanistan right now to our forces a...

No eyes on the ground. number two we dont have a partner there. the afghan intelligence service. were going a bit more blind than we would like. we have to partner with old contacts. those who fled north to give us ground truth on ct reporting. well have to turn to our allies, the british and others because ultimately our human intelligence gathering has been degraded. when you talk about counter terrorism there are three things you need. human intelligence, signals intelligence and eyes in the ...

Intelligence failure. when -- as we read the reports coming in to the white house from the intelligence community one talked about 30 days perhaps before the fall of kabul. if you are a policymaker 30 days is the lights blinking red. an incredible warning. at the end of the day cia is not in the business of predicting time and place of certain events but certainly i believe the intelligence community gave adequate warning and remains to be seen why the warnings were not heeded. >> bill: i hope i...

Proves they were translators and interpreters and helped you guys out in that war is some of the same paperwork that supposedly the taliban is using to identify who their targets will be. >> yeah, its quite amazing just how badly we have done at keeping track at human intelligence and overall bureaucracy. you know, i dont want to give too much of his identity away but i went to college with an afghan immigrant who is a u.s. citizen now. i believe he worked as an interpreter, i know he works with...

Participate in the negligent yaixs. >> the biden administration is now left to negotiate with the taliban with some of the same leaders who the obama/biden administration released from gitmo. >> harris: he should be familiar with them. he has been in office for 50 years. weighs there when it was going on in the white house as well. who were dealing with outside of the perimeter of that airport today. joey jones is joining me now. fox nation host and retired marine bomb technician and our friend ...

No. facial recognition technology. we now have hopefully sources. we are smart enough, i hope over the last 20 years to develop some sources on the ground in afghanistan where we can get human intelligence. but coupling that with the drone technology with the facial recognition technology, with all of these things that have shifted, give us a little bit more to work with than we had in 2001. that works both ways. it works for the enemy as well. meaning having a physical sanctuary might not be qu...