learning of this information as we are learning of it in real time. they re reporting to this 10:30 pentagon press briefing that was previously scheduled. we ll have to see if the timing on that flies. when you heard president biden deliver those remarks early this week, he said every day that u.s. troops remain in this region, in afghanistan, they face a grave and growing threat posed by terror groups in the area. he pointed directly to isis-k, the isis affiliate in afghanistan. we don t yet know who is responsible for this attack. but i will also say that in coming out to speak with you, we saw at least one airplane take off as the white house, the administration tries to continue this evacuation effort, tries to ramp it up, in fact, as we near this august 31st deadline. chris? geoff bennett, thank you so much. the president has been briefed. folks are huddling there. there s been an explosion of some type outside the kabul airport. you see the planes on the tarmac at the hamid kar
0 casualties are unclear at this time. we will provide additional details when we can. we also learned moments ago that president biden has been briefed on that explosion outside of kabul airport. a white house official tells cnn. and we are waiting on a pentagon press briefing which will happen in about 30 minutes from now. the back ground on this, as you look at a live picture from the kabul airport, that in recent days and yesterday we reported the u.s. has been very concerned about a credible threat stream about potential terror attacks targeting the gates to the airport and the crowds around those gates. the u.s. believing that terror groups had both the capability and the planning to carry out such attacks. there is still no attribution for these attacks or as we said, any confirmation about casualties. we have our reporters covering the story. let s begin with nick paton walsh in doha. we see now a confirmed attack. only the families of the u.s. serve men concerned about who
deadline. well, let s get more on this from washington. a couple of things here but one of the main point is obviously that pentagon press briefing took place today, off the back of that reported chaos at kabul. g the back of that reported chaos at kabul w w the back of that reported chaos at kabul. ., ., , ., , kabul. a lot of the questions were about this warning kabul. a lot of the questions were about this warning not kabul. a lot of the questions were about this warning not come - kabul. a lot of the questions were about this warning not come to i kabul. a lot of the questions were | about this warning not come to the airport unless specifically instructed to because of security threats which is a bit of a tougher message from the embassy than the ones they have sent out so far. the officials were asked about that quite a lot and they did not give specific details about what this threat was. there are unnamed us officials being quoted in american media just recently saying
personnel? that is correct. thanks, my plan is to update you again this afternoon. it will be off camera we ll see you at 2:15. that s the plan right now. thank you. harris: we ve been watching there a very extended with a lot of questions. pentagon press briefing what s unfolding in afghanistan. he only has a couple of minutes so i want to right away go to capitol hill. senator tom cotton, republican from arkansas who sits on the armed services, judiciary and intelligence committees. senator cotton, i ll jump right in. i just tweeted the headline or one of them was when asked whether or not the pentagon knows how many americans are left in afghanistan, there was a one word answer, no. what is your reaction to that? the situation around the kabul airport is getting worse by the day. kirby stressed how many lights are landing and control of the
the source even collected his dirty underwear and a sample of his blood for dna verification before the raid. according to him, the kurdish intelligence asset in baghdadi s inner circle was one of the two adult males captured alive and mentioned yesterday at the pentagon press briefing. there were two adult males taken off the objective alive and they are in our custody. we expect a briefing with commander general frank mckenzie here at the pentagon on wednesday. the pentagon hopes to release drone video from the raid. there are issues with declassifying those videos and we are told not to expect images of baghdadi to be released. president obama, you ll remember, never authorized the bin laden photos to be declassified after that raid. martha: jennifer griffin of the pentagon. joining me now, general jack keane, fox news senior strategic analyst. always good to have you with us. fascinating to hear those