secretary james mattis shortly after landing in afghanistan last night. abby: pentagon producer lucas tomlinson is live for us from the pentagon and has brand new details. what are you hearing? >> good morning, abby. less than two hours before defense secretary jim mattis arrived at kabul's international airport u.s. officials tell me 40 to 345 rockets and rocket propelled grenades slammed to the ground. the fact that grenadesy used indicate some kind of ground assault that taliban claimed responsibility for attacks. james mattis had departed the airport. the taliban are claiming credit for the attack and this raises serious questions about who tipped them off. the attack happened at 7:30 a.m. local time, 11:00 p.m. here on the east coast. mattis had been in india the day before and spoke at the press conference in kabul alongside the president of afghanistan about the attack. >> an attack on an