officials in silence near total silence as these 13 transfer cases of the service members were taken off of that plane the president bowing his head as if in prayer, holding his hand over his heart. we know he has spoken in recent days about the impact this has had, the heavy burden that you can feel here at the white house in those days since that thursday attack. now, listen. what we need to remember here as well is the fact that president biden and his top officials have made very clear that there is still a very, very high threat of additional terrorist attacks in kabul as the u.s. completes this evacuation and the drawdown of all of those nearly 6,000 troops who over the last week have helped to facilitate those evacuations. secretary of state tony blinken today saying this is now the most dangerous time in an already extraordinarily dangerous mission. pam? >> thanks, jeremy diamond from the white house. we'll be right back.