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>> marcus yam, foreign correspondent, live in kabul tonight. while weve been talking weve been able to show some of your recent works, some of your photos including the aftermath of some of these incredibly bloody attacks. take care, stay safe, i know youre planning on staying there as long as you can. thank you for your work. thank you for joining us tonight. >> i appreciate it. thank you. >> all right. as weve been talking about the group that claimed responsibility for todays attack, isis-k, ...

In terms of what steps we are taking, everyone is tested upon arrival and steps are taken if individuals test positive to quarantine them. obviously american citizenss are asked to quarantine and like any other american citizens, that would be something they would do on their own. go ahead. >> the president plans to hunt down the people responsible for the attack, how do you prevent that coming open -- terrorist groups in afghanistan? >> sec. of state psaki: again, i think the military and the n...

Point and also a very explicit threat. >> over the past few weeks, i know many of your tired of hearing me say it, weve been made aware by our intelligence community that the isis-k and arch enemy of the taliban, people who are freed when both of those prisons were opened, has been planning accomplice set of attack on the united states personnel and others. this is why from the outset, ive repeatedly said this mission was extraordinarily dangerous, and wife and so determined to limit the duratio...

Many american and afghanis out of that country as we can, and its not a time for politics. and its just so -- its so -- it really is sad to see the republicans have clawed their way to the bottom to a point theyre going to make politics out of a situation on a day like today. >> and dona, to marks point, to the point "the washington post" makes tonight. ill be reading from it at the end of the broadcast, that having lost these 13 heroic souls today that message should mean we could try to get al...

Possibility. with the taliban taking over control of afghanistan and at the same group, by the way, hosted usama bin laden and through the terrorist attack september 11, 2001, we can expect isis challenges the taliban but also shares against the united states and will return that region. al qaeda will return they will once again use afghanistan as the base for plotting against the united states of america but also abroad and allies in europe. >> trace: "the wall street journal" editorial writes ...

>> yeah. blowback for pakistan which has had -- well, through its intelligence service, the isi, has had its fingers in the taliban for some time. its clear the u.s. had intelligence forewarning of this attack. how much harder will it be to get that kind of intelligence once the u.s. military leaves kabul? and whats the path forward for u.s. in dealing with terror in the region? what -- what effective capability will it have, versus what it has had? >> so, yeah, with the withdrawal of u.s. force...

Individual was doing at that time? >> she was posing a threat to the united states house of representatives. >> she was posing a threat to the united states house of representatives. that is lieutenant michael bird of the united states capitol police. coming forward, identifying himself, speaking on his terms, talking about what happened not only on that day but the attacks and threats against him. joining us now is ryan reilly, justice reporter for the huffington post. hes been following the ja...

Repeatedly warned that crowds at the airport might be targeted by an isis terrorist attack. um, when youve been there in recent days. when you have been among the crowds at the airport, what -- what was it like? did it seem like it was a soft target for a potential attack? did it seem like those -- those sort of warnings were -- were warranted on the ground? >> um i mean, first of all, i mean, generally [ inaudible ] and yes, it seems like those warnings are definitely warranted. those crowds un...

For today, too much sorrow. karl and bret, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> john: live look at the white house briefing room, we are waiting for press secretary jen psaki to update the situation in afghanistan, scheduled four minutes if now. well take it live when it starts. >> sandra: we will indeed 6789 the presidents advisors are warning another attack is likely. americans at risk, our allies see this as a race against time. our next guest is working around the clock to help get peo...

>> reporter: u.s. officials have been warning for days about the threat from isis-k, culminating in a red alert last night for americans to stay away from the airport gates. a warning that proved all too true today what is isis-k an offshoot in afghanistan of the islamic state that originated in iraq. created six years ago in pakistan, an avowed enemy of the u.s. and rival to the taliban. >> isis is extremely real weve been talking about this for several days we saw it manifest itself in the las...