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Terrorists, or are in the chain of command of terrorists organizations. so we have been listening. second, we received credible information from afghans we know who passed this information to us. and then further confirm by conversations with our allies whose afghan friends confirm what we have already heard, and what we learn from our afghan friends. and that is why the administration, the military establishment, was so certain that something like this was going to happen. and they predicted it...

Though yesterdays attack was an obvious security lapse, she said, the us will continue to co—ordinate with the taliban. i think its worth repeating as often as i can that we dont trust the taliban. this is not about trust. but theres a reality on the ground. and the reality is the taliban control large swathes of afghanistan including the area surrounding the perimeter of the airport. so by necessity that is our option to co—ordinate with, to get american citizens out, to get our afghan part...

Retaliation against that group? and for the continuing evacuation effort which continues, another 7500 people airlifted out even today, even with all of this, even with those photos of people that you just saw in the aftermath of todays attack, people bloodied and injured at the gates at the airport evacuation efforts continue. joining us now is counterintelligence analysts, who studies these things intensively. mr. cory, thank you for being here with us tonight, its been a long time since weve ...

President bidens deadline to end americas longest war, the commander in chief addressing what is one of the deadliest days for u.s. troops in the entire 20-year conflict. >> these american service members that gave their lives -- its an overused word but its appropriate here -- were heroes. heroes engaged in a selfless mission to save the lives of others. >> reporter: the president blaming the attack on the group isis-k. a group hes been warning about for days. >> we were made aware by our intel...

Which is exactly what happened. for -- for a -- a week now. up to and including yesterday with those remarks from secretary of state antony blinken. up to and including overnight last night, that urgent in directive from the u.s. embassy in kabul that all americans om should leave the abbey gate immediately because of a specific threat there. they have been on this as an increasingly explicit threat of something they believed could e and would happen.th they said they believed it would happen at...

Screened over 104,000 people. id like to offer my profound condolences to the families of e our servicemen and women and afghan civilians who lost their lives today.ia we have put more than 5,000 u.s. service members at risk to save as many civilians as we can.ern. its a noble mission. and today, we have seen, firsthand, how dangerous that w mission is. isis will not deter us from accomplishing the mission. i can assure you of that. >> says this is close-up war. the breath of the person you are ...

Severe threat and an increasingly likely one. >> look, isis has demonstrated over and again that it is masterfully opportunistic especially when it comes to of vacuums of power, in fact some of the chatter that ive been looking at just before the attack, talked about how isis was poised to launch attacks, specifically because two of its enemies are out of the picture. that is the afghan security forces, and of course, the u.s. troops. now that they are out of the picture, they only have one more...

It comes to vacuums of power. in fact, some of the chatter that i had been looking at just before the attack talked about how isis was poised to launch attacks specifically because two of its enemies are out of the picture. that is the afghan security forces and, of course, the u.s. troops. now that they are out of the picture, they only have one more enemy left and this enemy is extremely busy right now trying to control afghanistan all over again. trying to put logistics in place. um -- but th...

Afghans were killed. more than 150 others wounded. at least 13 u.s. service members also died in the attack. an isis affiliate has claimed responsibility for the carnage and the pentagon is warning another attack could happen. >> we have reached out to the taliban. weve told them you -- you need to continue to push out the security perimeter. weve identified some roads that we would like for them to close. they have identified that they will be willing to close those roads because we assessed th...

Try to disrupt the evacuations again. >> peter alexander at the white house, thank you. just hours before todays explosions, there were warnings about security threats at the kabul airport, and that threat continues tonight. courtney kube is at the pentagon what are you hearing from there >> reporter: lester, there were more u.s. troops killed in afghanistan today than all of last year combined, with specific intelligence that isis-k was planning to strike, inside the pentagon, u.s. military l...