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President, what the options are being put forth on him, put forth before him now of dealing with this current security mess that we have at that airport, its obviously harder to get people into the airport, it is not going to get easier, going to get harder. what are the various realistic options to finish the evacuation? >> option one will be wrap it up right now. stop taking anybody else and get our military out of there. i dont think he will select that. smack too much of lebanon response to ...

And also, can you tell us a little bit about how the forces have reacted? you said you introduced a little -- probably more stand off at this point. what other measures are you taking to increase security after the attack? >> i believe the process is ongoing. i do not have visibility on it. my visibility is on the practical threat that we face in the theater. im not that person. in terms of practical things were doing. we reached out to the taliban. we told them, you need to continue to push out...

And make them as deadly as possible. i think thats what were seeing here, their skill set developed almost over a generation. you would say in theory therefore the taliban should know what theyre looking for. we know their security perimeter has not been effective. >> susan, you know, the u.s. had taken solace that up until now not a single american had been killed. then to learn in one fell swoop 12 u.s. service members killed, 15 wounded and again the numbers have been fluid in terms of afghan...

There as possible? it doesnt mean stop getting people out and just add more troops. >> thats right, joy. the day the americans landed there and started extraction, it became a magnet for terrorist attacks at the kabul airport. this is different from other places like bagram where we had a security perimeter, we had air and ground dominance to a degree in terms of our military. we could defend it. this is not the case of whats going on today. were relying on the taliban. theres some minomers out ...

Grateful injured, other people pulling them out of the wastewater. and then ambulances coming in to take the wounded away and try to treat them. it will slow down pace of evacuations because one gate, i wouldnt say it is totally taken out of operation, but it has certainly caused a degree of chaos. theyll try to step up security. they did have a specific threat, seems like that specific threat was carried out. if it was isis, it is isis trying to put themselves back on the map, to do exactly wha...

Notification — sense of where you are in casualty notification for these folks on the ground? — notification for these folks on the ground? how long you expect it to take in— ground? how long you expect it to take in such a large number. and also _ take in such a large number. and also can— take in such a large number. and also can you _ take in such a large number. and also can you tell us about how the forces _ also can you tell us about how the forces have — also can you tell us abo...

0 there in afghanistan. we continue our coverage right now. lets toss it over to garrett haake. garrett? >> chris jansing, thank you. im garrett haake. there has been an explosion outside the kabul airport. youre looking at live pictures of the airport. its 6:30 in the evening tonight. pentagon says casualties are still unclear at this point. we know that the president has been briefed on the explosion. he was in a preplanned national security meeting this morning. white house officials are hudd...

0 >> karen greenburg, thanks so much. that does it for this edition. chuck todd is up next with "mtp daily" only on msnbc. well, dont worry, andrea, youre not going very far. were coming back to you in a moment. welcome back to "mtp daily." a pair of explosions rocked kabul, have tloefr the u.s. evacuation efforts into turmoil, just five days before president bidens agreed to deadline to get americans out. u.s. officials tell nbc news at least three marines were wounded in the attack outside t...

0 >> officials believe isis-k was behind the attacks, but theyre still working to confirm that. the state department had been warning for days of a terror attack at the airport. we have reporters standing by. lets start with barbara starr at the pentagon. what do we know about these military members who were killed and what were expected to hear from the pentagon? >> in just a very short while we are expecting to hear from general frank mckenzie, the head of the u.s. central command which overse...

Correspondent courtney kube and kelly odonnell. back in kabul, a big change from when you first were there before going to do that, how are the evacuations ramping up? as the cia director made that surprise stop in kabul and the taliban providing some better security. >> reporter: so the taliban are now, i think, you can say onboard coordinating closely with the americans. i saw an extraordinary scene today as we landed at the airport. the airport is still under international control, mostly ame...