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Flow in more forces and it would potentially be a very ugly fight and i think thats one thing that military planners are looking at right now is the reality of what that -- of just how potentially bloody and how difficult a battle that would be if they decided to stay against any agreement with the taliban. >> the clock is ticking toward that deadline. courtney, thanks so much. matt bradley, lets go to you in germany where the evacuation flights continue to land. the president vowed the evacua...

With that but the majority are okay its the way he did it leaving americans behind. steve: if you look at the chaos in kabul one eyewitness said there were dead people everywhere we will continue the conversation and to date on the telecast we will talk to the most powerful republican in the congress kevin mccarthy and tom cotton rob oneill, jack, alan west and kayo kyle. it is exactly 12 minutes after the top of our straight ahead on this friday biden admin incidents work with taliban and is im...

Easier to say, hey, lets stick it out for as long as it is necessary to get everyone out up until yesterday morning. that changed a lot. we all feared that an attack like this was coming, but it just shows how dangerous it is for every additional day that were there. that said, it is also an imperative that we continue to do what we need to do to get our allies out. my opinion is that it is going to make the most sense to stick to the 31st deadline, but then also absolutely ensure we have a plan...

And hit home for a lot of americans in a way it maybe hadnt in the last several days. i suspect we will hear an empathetic president at 5:00. the challenge politically i think is going to have to be the to communicate to the american people why his decision to withdraw and do it in a way we have was justified and the right move for americas foreign policy and national security interests. and thats really the imperative for him. >> rick, how does he do that? >> well, as i was saying before, i thi...

Of kabul. what are they telling you about that effort? especially at this particular moment? >> yeah, what were hearing hear is that this is the largest base, really an american air base outside of u.s. borders in the world. we were speaking with military officials, too. for them this will just add to the imperative that they need to start moving as fast as they can. they are already doing that. they have a tent city they built, trying to process people as fast as they possibly can. the populati...

Today. thats what we heard the french president say earlier in the day, so emmanuel macron imagining a situation where it gets worse. no amount of hand-wringing in foreign capitals in europe is going to change and remedy this immediate situation. i think everyone understands the imperative is to get out those people that they need to get out, and thats -- thats the mission. how and why this went so badly wrong, they can get to that another day. >> yeah. general, i want to circle back with you to...

Air base outside of u.s. borders. this makes the mission more worth it, it makes the mission more imperative, more crucial and even more wind to their backs. >> officials expecting more to land tonight despite the chaos in kabul? >> reporter: not just that. they said whats going on right now today is the busiest day that theyve seen or will be seeing since the beginning of the crisis. theres about 6,000 afghan evacuees right now at ramstein air base. they said the occupancy of this enormous air ...

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 >> officials believe isis-k was behind the attacks, but theyre still working to confirm that. the state department had been warning for days of a terror attack at the airport. we have reporters standing by. lets start with barbara starr at the pentagon. what do we know about these military members who were killed and what were expected to hear from the pentagon? >> in just a very short while we are expecting to hear from general frank mckenzie, the head of the u.s. central command which overse...

U.s. forces and u.s. lives in afghanistan now. the secondary imperative is to help those who helped us. time is running short for them to be able to do that. and then beyond that, you know, to try to help as many other people who are vulnerable. and that is what youre seeing happen now. yes, the numbers are impressive. tens of thousands that u.s. and allies that have been able to get out so far. that guarantees that tens of thousands who would go if they could will be left behind. how many of th...