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Countries the extremist groups, terrorist groups come in and exploit and use food as a weapon of recruitment and a weapon of war. we use food as a weapon of peace. a weapon of hope. >> today is thursday. on tuesday u.s. troops are supposed to wrap up their operation on the ground in afghanistan. there are still thousands of afghans and american citizens stuck there. no plans on what exactly will take place after that deadline expires. >> bill: thank you, trey yingst back in doha again today. >> ...

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 ...

Casualties, the pentagon confirmed an attack at gates and it is our latest information that this appears to be a suicide attack. that could be consistent with the tactics used by a number of terror groups who should be clear in afghanistan, though i should note that the particular concern leading up to this moment, this specific intelligence stream that we reported yesterday, focused on the group isis-k or islamic state corizan. many groups making a base home in afghanistan. lets go back to kyli...

Almost sank the destroyer and then 9/11. so this is the lesson here. it is not so much cells. they have cells in a lot of places but if you give them time, space, sanctuary, places to recruit and operational partnership with the government, you are asking to be hit. >> bill: its a stunning thing to think you were involved in the prosecution 25 years ago. you are deeply involved in this. long before 9/11 in the cole off the coast of yemen prior to the election of 2000 in november of that year, bu...

Learning of this information as we are learning of it in real time. theyre reporting to this 10:30 pentagon press briefing that was previously scheduled. well 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 dont yet know ...

Afghanistan. the problem is when you pull out of places like afghanistan, you leave a vacuum. whenever youre in a situation of withdrawal like we are right now with the u.s. military withdrawing by tuesday, you have a situation where terror groups will try to take advantage of that. they did that with the sovieting in 19899. they want to look like theyre firing on you the way out. this is the nightmare scenario the pentagon planned for. they knew it was a possibility but it was the worst case sc...

General mckenzie was asked whether there was any possibility that the taliban were involved. heres what he said. >> you still trust the taliban and is it possible that they let this happen? >> as to whether or not they let it happen, i dont know. i dont think theres anything that convinces me that they let it happen. >> at this point in time, theres really some differences being made when you talk to u.s. officials about taliban versus isis k and al-quaida. all of the groups are terror groups an...

Thats why when you hear those warnings from the pentagon podium a few minutes ago saying they are still concerned about attacks those are real because the intelligence is the same. >> what is the purpose? is it a demonstration of quote, unquote strength although i cant think of anything more cowardly than a suicide attack on civilians because the united states is leaving. >> yeah. often are you see these kinds of activities happen as alleged way to drive people out. >> sure. >> but the u.s. is l...

Is it monetary based? what is it? how is it that they were able to do so much damage? the others, there are a lot of people who hate us on the ground there. is the taliban giving them free rein of the ground? >> right now the taliban including the haqqani network, part of the taliban, they took the government of kabul. they are sitting in the presidential palace, haqqani brothers are in charge of security in kabul. the haqqani network and the taliban are no friends of isis k. isis k would like t...

Taking off. it appear be one of the c-17s that has been the work horses of the evacuation operation. that potentially hopeful sign that theyre able to continue the flights despite this attack. remember, in these situations, they start with securing the situation, taking care of the injured, getting word out and then moving on to the mission at hand. joining me now is someone to discuss this with a great amount ever experience, lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster, and long history of commanding forc...