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World leaders had also pushed for it during a virtual call with the president earlier this week, but a large reason that we were told privately was a driving factor in when president biden decided against having an extension earlier this week was primarily because of what we are seeing right now, his concerns about security threats on the ground and potential terrorist attacks that would put u.s. troops and these vulnerable afghan allies waiting outside the gates in harms way. of course, unfortu...

The more than 60 afghan innocents who were killed. >> yeah. hi, jake, im grieving and mourning along with all of america for the loss of these marines, the corpsmen and obviously those injured. we will be there for their families as we must for all of our service men and women that we lose, and we have to focus on getting the mission done is the bottom line. during my time in afghanistan we lost soldiers. we have lost over 2,400 men and women over the last 20 years and every time weve lost one o...

Perimeter so as not to attract other suicide attacks or terrorist attacks. as cnns phil mattingly reports, the fate of thousands of american citizens and permanent legal residents remains right now in limbo. >> reporter: for president biden its the nightmare scenario thats loomed other every waking moment of the last 12 days. >> every day were on the ground is another day we know that isis-k is seeking to target the airport and attack both u.s. and allied forces and innocent civilians. >> report...

Factor from all of this is there are contacts between the cia and the taliban, because essentially they are on the same page in terms of trying to stop terrorist attacks. the taliban has suffered from these attacks. yes, the targets may have been westerners and afghans seeking to get out to the west, but the taliban are also casualties from this. there are two ways of looking at this. one, you could say this is because they are fellow jihadists and the taliban are to blame, the other is to take ...

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 ...

There are still thousands of american citizens and law full permanent residents to say nothing of thousands of a gan allies who have these special immigrant visas, all of whom night to be evacuates. do the attacks change the evacuation plans? the mission at hand, the evacuation of u.s. skit sense and afghan alice continue despite and even in the face of the terrorist attacks, the terrorist attacks more explosions heard at kabulished national airport. a taliban spokesman says this is the u.s. des...

That government behind him will be people like him who have a long record also by the way of carrying terrorist attacks in kabul. the most militant arm of the taliban. >> bob, how credible do you think a threat has to be for the u.s. embassy, which is based at the airport to issue a warning to any americans outside the airport to leave? >> well, like peter was saying for the administration to make a public announcement like this it has to be very serious because they dont want to panic people, s...

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...

Take. fearing possible terrorist attacks from groups like isis and retaliation from the taliban. >> the completion by august 31st depends on the taliban continuing to cooperation, in addition, ive asked the pentagon and the state department for continuous plans to adjust the timetable should that become necessary. >> reporter: as evacuees continue to board planes its immediately clear that many afghans may not make it out. >> theres no doubting the success of the second big itself air lift in th...

Seeing the rights of all afghans, especially women and girls are upholds then well do it. the nature of that engagement and the nature of any relationship depends entirely on the actions and contact of the taliban. if a future government upholds the basic right of the afghan people. if it maybes good on its commitments to ensure that afghanistan cannot be used as a launching bad for terrorist attacks directed against us in our allies and partners and in the first instance if it makes good on the...