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As we said a swift reaction today from republicans following a deadly attack in kabul, minority leader kevin mccarthy has called for the house to return to vote on a bill banning the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan until all the americans are evacuated. at the same time republican lawmakers including senators josh holly and marsha blackburn have demanded the president resign. talk about it with two of our friends. dona edward, former democratic member of congress, now a "the washingto...

Die. >> congressman, stay with us. were at the top of the hour, 13 u.s. service members and according to the associated press at least 95 afghans are dead following the terror attacks weve been talking about in kabul. richard engel reports on what happened on the ground. >> reporter: it was every soldier and marine in kabuls worst fear, an attack where theyre most exposed. as troops were patting down an evacuee at a kabul airport gate searching for a bomb, he or she, thats still unclear, detonat...

Al roker is here and inspiring lessons from a young man now fulfilling his olympic dreams >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening, everyone a war that over 20 years has cost our country so much grief is still taking american lives practically to the bitter end at least a dozen u.s. troops were killed after two explosions rocked the area around the kabul airport. just five days before u.s. forces are scheduled to depart for good a suicide bomber detonating at wh...

Cnn international security editor, nick paton walsh, recently spent time in afghanistan. he is with us live this hour from doha in qatar. arlette saenz has reaction for us from the white house. and natasha bertrand is covering the u.s. state department. nick, lets go to you, first. what more do we know about what happened? why? and how? >> yeah. i mean, its important to slowly piece together the details of this because according to the pentagon, this was what they call a complex attack. many dif...

I was struck yesterday by what we kept hearing out of officials, primarily at the white house, but someone at the pentagon as well. about how after the august 31st deadline, they would continue to work to get more people out who wanted to get out, particularly get americans out. i would be interested to know exactly how thats going to happen. i can only imagine that the state department and the white house are working on some diplomatic means to try to make that happen. the u.s. has been working...

Sooner or later. were prepared to continue the mission. general mackenzie speaking today in the wake of the attack, president biden late this afternoon, in an address to the nation said the same. but with sort of a presidential exclamation point and also a very explicit threat. >> over the past few weeks, i know you -- many of you are probably tired of hearing me say it. weve been made aware by our intelligence community that the isis-k, an arch enemy of the taliban. people who were freed when b...

Loud knock on wood because people understand now that the tragedy the president is having to oversee here. and the president said today the responsibility for this is with him, and the buck stops with him. and hes going to have to really understand and contend with the idea that under this image of him of the white house and white house officials wanting to say this was an evacuation attempt that was going to be going well, he now has dead soldiers and 60 dead afghans, and that obviously is comp...

States and all around the world. i appreciate your company. im michael holmes and this is "cnn newsroom. " u.s. military leaders are warning that the deadly suicide bombings outside kabul airport are likely just the beginning. were about to show you some very graphic video of the scene. it is difficult to watch, but it is also important that we document the brutality of what is happening. more than 90 afghans and 13 u.s. service members were killed at the airports main entrance gate for evacue...

Attack on the u.s. capitol, a person participating in the attack, a woman named ashli babbitt was shot by a capitol police officer. she and several others were in the process of smashing in the glass window of a door inside the house of representatives. trying to force their way into where members of congress were sheltering from the mob. since that day, u.s. capitol police have withheld the name of the officer who fired the shot. over fears that far-right sympathizers of the capitol rioters mig...

Significantly. >> we are sustaining the highest level of vigilance for an attack against the airport by isis-k, or another terrorist group. >> theyre real, and significant challenges that we also have to take into consideration. the longer we stay, starting with the acute and growing risk of an attack by a terrorist group known as isis-k, an isis affiliate and afghanistan, which is a sworn enemy of the taliban as well. every day were on the ground, is another day we know that isis-k seeking to t...