0 your fine men and women, 18 died and was a preview of coming attractions. now in afghanistan, where this year not a single u.s. soldier had died or even been wounded, that's broken today with the death of 12 and 15 inches. >> -- pentagon calling it a complex terror attack. saying two isis suicide bombers were responsible. a team of reporters will give us updates throughout the hour. first chilling news saying he expects the did he doily isis attacks to continue. >> let isis break through the check point to launch this attack. we don't think they would do something like that? come on. they don't know what is going on right now. we have no handle on the situation. right now we're basically sitting ducks. i have never seen a tactical blunder like this before. you have to go way back. it's living the deadliest incident in a decade for afghanistan. we don't know how bad it will guilty. get dark soon. isis is taking pot shots into the airport at aircraft. joe biden said there would be no taliban take over. that's not true. americans could get to the airport. that wasn't true. go to the airport. don't go to the airport. go to the airport. don't go to the airport. you think americans will go to the airport, of course not. taliban, doesn't look like they're doing that great of a job as tsa agents, so to speak. i don't know what the president will say. he has to come to grips with reality. tell the american people how bad it is and what the plan is moving forward. he has two options, da na. keep the evacuation going, stick to the deadline and get the hell out. or expand the perimeter, do search and rescue. taliban broke the deal. they broke the deal, we're staying as long as it takes. i don't expect that. when i heard the pentagon guy come out today, lloyd release a statement. he said he was sad about the loss of life. he never said they would hunt down the bad guy that's did this and bring them to justice. >> greg, you have to imagine the intel we had last night and since the whole thing happened on the 14th this could get bad. you have to imagine the marines knew the danger they were in. they were doing anyways and doing it valiantly. just this morning. i want to play this please this. is ross wilson, u.s. ambassador to ah fan stan this. is what he said this morning on good morning america. >> there are safeways to get here. there are relatively safeways to access the airport. we're doing everything we can to facilitate that. >> greg. >> he's like the news anchor saying it's a holiday weekend. leave extra time getting to the airport. there maybe suicide bombers. watch out for kidnapping and murder. i go back to the internal question. how can everybody but the people in charge get this so long. i'm a english grad from berkeley. a magazine editor turned class clown. i saw this coming. we all saw this coming. how did they not see this coming. it makes you think they saw it coming and underestimated the risk. there would be problems and could handle it. boy, were they wrong. knock on wood, that was the strategy. knock on wood. president biden has a lot of wood to knock on so far, 12 could of inns. we gave a list of american citizens to the taliban to grant entry. we gave control of the perimeter to taliban this. is a tell. when you ask, when you ask someone in charge why would you do something so stupid the answer is we have no choice. that's the mark of a failed leader and failed administration. when you're lead to a place with no plan b. plan a is moronic. we understand plan c and pugh being iffy. what is deteriorating faster kabul or joe biden at this point. strategic thinking gives you these options in the fact that we don't -- they shouldn't of left the room until this was ironed out. that's what is so awful for people spending so many years there, lost their lives family members, people who have lost limbs, people we know this. is how it i understand this. may not end, it could be worst. >> bill, you spent several weeks in afghanistan after the attack of 9/11. i want to play this. this is the taliban spokes person, yes they have one. his thoughts on 9/11 and osama bin laden. >> when osama bin laden became a issue for americans he was in afghan san. there was no proof he was involved. now we have promises afghan soil won't be used against anyone. >> you don't think osama bin laden carried out 9/11. >> there is no evidence. >> despite osama bid laden is on video taking credit. >> it's an amazing video, jaw drop i remember. what do you do? what do you say now? what you do is if you believe the taliban knows exactly were the isis k group is located before you leave the airport you hit the target for isis k. you go back on offense. that's one thing he could do when he comes out to speak. what does he say? i have watched coverage all day to day. one think lacking from everyone on the microphone. we haven't heard. when is the empathy, anger, sadness. the american people are pissed off. at the end of 20 years this is what you get. put a voice to it. joe biden was the empathetic leader. he hasn't done that and has a chance now coming up. a week ago you had the week with george s. on abc news. he was asked do you believe the taliban has changed. the president said i think they're going through a crisis of what to do to be recognized by the international community as a legitimate government. that's a lie. the taliban after our marines were killed blamed the united states. said your foreign fighters on the land. that's the same message osama bid laden had 20 years ago. ubl is not responsible for 9/11 the spokes person for the taliban speaking to western media, nbc news there. are a ton of whoppers in the interview if you want to check it out. >> maybe he watched the spike lee document ry. >> don't get me started on that, well we should talk about it some time. this is the end of 20 years. terrorism is not finished with us, katie. >> right. the conclusion i have come to is the position of weakness the united states is in. in july the president of the united states said it is unlikely the taliban would over take security. they're now providing our security. we see the taliban is in charge of security for the outer perimeter of the airport. we're sharing intelligence with the taliban. giving them names. names of americans who many will be left behind on august 31st. maybe other terrorist groups will have access to the list and that information. we are told that every single contingency plan was available and they hammered it out before it happens. clearly that's not true. the question now, da na, you make moving forward. we are to believe the taliban had nothing to do with the suicide bombing today. maybe one of their guys didn't blame the suicide bomber through to blame the attack on isis so they could be recognized as a legitimate partner at this point. i don't believe that. i don't believe the taliban is able and capable to keep their savages in line and they won't go around here and this and attack the united states in these positions. we're so weak, we're on our heels. there are americans trapped in afghanistan. school kids are trapped. okay say it was isis. what do we do about it? if we look at how vice president joe biden handled isis they called it the jv team and took over a rock and president trump came in and got rid of it. you have the taliban taking over the country, americans trapped there with no legitimate plan to get them out. saying it's your fault if you didn't get to the airport. they will blame them. what will happen here? a wide open border. how is the president of the united states going to protect american citizens from islamic terrorists coming back to the united states. those are all questions that i don't think the president is up to. >> trey, we're yate full for your conk. i'm sure when the president speaks today he's speaking to the american people, military, allies and adversaries in the region. what is your update now? >> there is still a major problem for the biden administration. they're relying on the taliban for information and security outside of the gates of the airport this. is clearly a coordinated attack. two blasts. one outside of the abbey gate with thousands of civilians. u.s. marines helping the civilians. then another blast close by at the baron hotel. isis k is reportedly responsible for the explosions outside of the airport. it begs the question how did the sue sued bombers get there. we have heard about the taliban having check points outside of the airport and the city. the united states have made it clear they're suppose to be responsible for the air outside of the airport. we spoke with a spokes person here yesterday. they made it clear they want the americans to leave, they want them to leave safely. that's the word of the taliban. if that is accepted by the biden administration it would be a situation in which we have to rely on what the taliban says. moving forward you will see more statements by the taliban trying to distance themselves from what happened. we have heard from the group following the blasts saying they're not responsible and offer condolences. that's what they have to say at face value. da na. >> thank you, trey. jess.y. >> the airport is a battlefield now. we have to sort that out not to sustain more casualties. in the mean time this was predictable. we have cables in april from the state department ordering the embassy staff to get out of kabul because of a deteriorating situation. widespread combat situations sthru out the country. another cable in may, get out. strongly suggesting all americans leave afghanistan because armed conflict is everywhere. july 15th, another embassy cable goes out. level 4* four terror alert. during this three month period, joe biden is saying we got this. saying the taliban is not going to take over. it's highly unlikely. we have a great afghan army. yet his people on the ground are telling americans to get out as soon as you can. we're losing it. you can't square that. that is something they have to look at in the house, strongly, to hold the president accountable. >> we also, we have trey available if you have a question for him. you do, katie. >> yes. >> go ahead. >> trey, it's katie. you had the defense department doing a briefing saying rescue and evacuation efforts will continue despite the attacks today. do you know if it's forgetting americans, interpreters, afghans with visas considering how dangerous it is to get to the airport. >> the blasts today changes the equation. we were on the ground in kabul speaking with service members in afghanistan. i can tell you, they were aside happy to be there. they were not there for war. they were there for peace. they were there for humanitarian assistance. you sought smiles as they gave mres, water and candy bars to afghan children. they were there to help with the evacuation mission. now the thousand much american troops left on the airfield are sitting ducks to isis k and to any other extremist organization on the ground in afghanistan. we saw in the mediate aftermath blasts a slowed version of the evacuation. we still know there are thousands of people on the airfield waiting to evacuate. it's unclear if the department of defense will come up with a reasonable plan to get people vetted through and onto the airport area and ultimately to planes and safety. you still have a major major prop hrebg. we heard general mckenzie talk about it earlier. these american troops have to pat down individuals before they make it onto the runway. they don't want anyone on these c17 military planes with a bomb or with another weapon that could harm the, the service members onboard or the other civilians. they have to interact with these individuals i have closely. you can vet anyone coming onto the airfield independently and look at their background and do all of the checks you want. at the end of the day when they're at the airport and the entrances we saw in afghanistan over the weekend, they're at a new location. those troops on the ground face new risks. it's something is that if the biden administration plans to move forward with and continue evacuations up until the very last minute, the august 31st deadline they have to contend with. >> trey, bill, great work over there. the president talks about this over the horizon capability to go back in and strike once the with draw is completed there. as of today we have a new enemy, isis k. how far over the horizon will we be when it comes time to seek a strike against this group? >> well the difficult part of striking isis k is that they are a splinter cell, a off shoot of the islamic state. they started in 2014 with isis. many are former members of the taliban. in some cases it's just a few hundred fighters in different areas launching the sleeper cell attacks against soft attacks like the perimeter of an airport with thousands of civilians. even if president biden wants to respond he has to find the exact location of a isis k cell. it's not like the past when president trump striked hesbolah. president biden will have a difficult time finding these terrorists in the location they are in eastern afghanistan. we heard this over and over again from the biden administration if there were attacks against american forces someone would be held responsible with a swift response. but we're looking at a situation now where so farrow officials in pugh c are saying that the taliban did not know about this, they didn't understand it was going to happen. yet, this massive, massive attack against u.s. forces outside of the kabul airport taking place today and the people responsible for the security outside of the perimeter the taliban. >> trey, i have a question. it's greg. the question is who should be held responsible for this? this kind of attack isn't going to speed up our exit. it will invite us back in. doesn't that kind of tell us who did this. someone who still wants us there to remain as targets? >> look i think we can analyze what happened for hours. will you hear a lot of opinion hosts and commentators in washington talk about failures of the administration and things could of going differently. think a major question that many people have on the ground in afghanistan and around the world, why the united states didn't keep the air base open. it could of avoided the situation we're seeing to day. thousands of civil jabs from inside kabul fleeing to the airport hoping with or without the proper documentation to get on a flight. you don't blame the civilians they're afraid. we saw them. we spoke to them over the weekend. they are terrified of the taliban. they are doing anything they can to leave the country. we saw the videos from the runway of people clinging to the outside of a c17 desperate to leave with fears of being killed by the taliban. now we have a large logistical problem of the united states continuing evacuations out of kabul's airport. they don't have the security that the air base had. they have an arbitrary dead line of august 31st made up by the biden administration. they have to have a window to retro grade. you have thousands of american lives, service members on the ground in afghanistan. the biden administration says they will continue evacuations. tuesday is the date set out by the president. >> thank you, trey. we are still waiting for president bide tone give his speech. you have a thought. >> it was about biden. how do you have any confidence in our leaders after this? there is no way this would happen under a competent leader. who is going to be fired. who is going to resign. i don't know if anyone wants to impeach biden with the vp choice. nobody has taken responsibility for this. i would like to see him do it. there are really bad decisions made apparently by good people, smart people. why do smart good people make bad decisions? it's usually cognitive bias that distorts the filter. this could be because of trump derangment, right. they polluted good decision making so they made the wrong choices for the wrong reasons. like the deadline. the deadline, did it create this problem? did you have to turn this into something symbolic because of the 20th anniversary? >> sam, there is an argument against this going back since i was press secretary that is saying a lot. i'm a lot older now and so is this conflict. talk about the administration going forward. what is the biden doctrine? his solemn obligation is to protect the united states. we have a lot of enemies. one thing about afghanistan, jesse, you had the taliban allowed to flourish there. it didn't start with 9/11. you go back to 1991 when they 1y first constituted themselves. there was the u.s.s. coal, it kept coming. >> now afghanistan a failed, terrorist state, armed with our war chest. like ants all of the terrorists will climb into these mountains and fester and plan and plot and arm up who knows what they will do. it's really about priorities. you touched on it. milli focused on white ridge, muslim ridge is the real threat. house democrats having oversight over this administration, over the military there. is no oversight. they're focused on the oversight of the last administration. they're focused on january 6th. they're slapping subpoenas everywhere. they're not focused on the present and today. nancy pelosi is out there -- >> talk ing about womens rights. >> joe biden hasn't been heard from today. president is acting like he can walk and chew gum at the same time. is he going to congratulate nancy for shepherding the pending bills through. in the beginning he went back and forth from vacation. imagine triggering a hostage crisis and going back on vacation. i don't know what he will say. he has to do better than he has been. he's unfocused. he's undisciplined. there is no priority here. he was kneeling with wnba players the other day. flashing the jersey and having a photo op. he wanted the 9/11 photo op to bookend the war on his watch and it blew up in his face. >> two minute warning for the president. >> the doctrine is clear, get out of afghanistan. don't spend the money oversees, spend it at home. we put that to a democratic congressman earlier today. he said he was offended by the suggestion. think the polling that came out 24 hours ago. i know you think it will go lower, you are probably right. i think the poles fail to sense is the feeling that america has suddenly and without warning over the last two weeks, the images on your screen that everything we did 20 years ago against the guy whose helped perpetrate what happened here in lower manhattan are back, stronger and bigger, they're more enforced. they have modern technology. that is something the american people -- >> they have modern language. they're talk ing about climate change and echo credits to make sure the imf money keeps coming. i believe we have the president of the united states about to address the nation on this very somber day. >> tough day. this evening in kabul as you all know terrorists attacked, that we have been talk ing about and worried about, that the intelligence community has assessed as undertaken an attack by a group known as isis k. took the lives of american service members standing guard at the airport, wounded several others seriously. also wounded a number of civilians and civilians were killed as well. i have been engaged all day in constant contact with the military commanders here in washington, the pentagon, as well as in afghanistan, and pugh oha. and d.o.h.a. >> we have great detail and you have had a chance to speak to some so far. the situation on the ground is still evolving. i'm constantly being updated. these american service members who gave their lives, it's an over used word but appropriate here, were heroes. heroes who have been engaged in a dangerous self less mission to save the lives of others. they're part of an airlift and evacuation effort unlike any ever s