0 your fine men and women, 18 died and was a preview of coming attractions. now in afghanistan, where this year not a single u.s. soldier had died or even been wounded, that s broken today with the death of 12 and 15 inches. pentagon calling it a complex terror attack. saying two isis suicide bombers were responsible. a team of reporters will give us updates throughout the hour. first chilling news saying he expects the did he doily isis attacks to continue. let isis break through the check point to launch this attack. we don t think they would do something like that? come on. they don t know what is going on right now. we have no handle on the situation. right now we re basically sitting ducks. i have never seen a tactical blunder like this before. you have to go way back. it s living the deadliest incident in a decade for afghanistan. we don t know how bad it will guilty. get dark soon. isis is taking pot shots into the airport at aircraft. joe biden said there would be no tali
in that context, with which you have thousands of u.s. military officials, you have diplomats, you have counselor officers, you have civil servants working in an airport, where the threat of an isis attack has already been warned in broadcast by national security adviser. you are working under an extremely difficult situation, on august 31st, deadline trying to get as many people as they can out of afghanistan, now from the perspective of these officials, pentagon officials, state department officials, white house officials, people that i talked to today, it they were absolute irate anger. from their perspective they re doing everything they can to try to fill every seat they can, to use every resource they have on the ground, to get people out. and having lawmakers, who, come with their own sort of baggage you know.
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airport. we just to to stipulate that there are 8 days until this deadline that the president apparently is deciding on on august 31st. so, what about that? first, it s good to be with you. i think the 8 days from now, that s what worries and concerns me the most. and we can pars words, and i know and like jen psaki. i do think there are americans that are stranded there, at least they feel like they re stranded. the context. i agree as i often do, i agree with trey that the we all wanted to exit or many wanted to exit but the execution is the problem. serious minded people have to be willing to set aside the politics here for a moment and let s focus on democrat and republican what resources will be needed, if the taliban is to be believed that they want us out before the 31st and aren t for extending the deadline, what are we prepared to do? i think the president has got to think long and hard about that and be ready to articulate that to the country. i listened to prime minister
now, critics of the withdrawal say it is allowing the taliban to capture more territory. practically, unimpeded. now, that map there shows areas controlled by the militant group shaded in black. it is a large amount of the country. now, mr. biden says he has confidence in the afghan military, and it is time for the country to control its own future. cnn s kaitlan collins reports from the white house. reporter: with the taliban surging as the u.s. withdrawals from afghanistan, president biden is vowing to press ahead. our military mission in afghanistan will conclude, on august 31st. reporter: biden defending his decision to withdrawal and saying he had no, other option. after his predecessor struck a deal with the taliban, to pull troops out, by may. that s what i inherited. once that agreement with the taliban had been made, staying with a bare-minimum force was no longer possible. reporter: reports of violence on the ground are growing more