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Deadline, i believe, is because of what we're seeing right now. the longer the u.s. stays there, the longer there's a chaotic scenario. this battle space is not controlled in empty speak. we'll have these spoiler attacks that are trying to bring the united states into a quagmire and put the taliban in a tough position as well. >> all right. let's take a moment to reset here a little bit. shortly before we came on the air, we learned of an explosion outside the abby gate, a gate frequented by westerners. it's across the street from a popular hotel. outside the abby gate of the hamid karzai inte...

0 there in afghanistan. we continue our coverage right now. let's toss it over to garrett haake. garrett? >> chris jansing, thank you. i'm garrett haake. there has been an explosion outside the kabul airport. you're looking at live pictures of the airport. it's 6:30 in the evening tonight. pentagon says casualties are still unclear at this point. we know that the president has been briefed on the explosion. he was in a preplanned national security meeting this morning. white house officials are huddling as we speak. we hope to learn more from them soon. the airport has been under a terror thre...

Mandating vaccine use is just the basics of public health. we do it for children with polio, with mumps, with measles. for the longest time the military was reluctant to mandate vaccination. i can remember talking with commanders in the heart of the battle space. and surprisingly small percentage of them were vaccinated. even though they were -- might be required to be vaccinated for anthrax which is a worse vaccination they were balking at being vaccinated for covid. that seems to be changing. if the military takes the lead, as so often happens in our country, other parts of society may follo...

International recognition and foreign aid that they wouldn't attempt to take over the country by force. that ignored the reality that china and russia, not to mention iran and pakistan, are going to support the taliban. our greatest ally in the region was the former government of afghanistan, and what really concerns me going forward is that we used to own the battle space and we had a sizable intelligence community footprint so when we served our mission to find and fix those terrorists so we could detect and preempt threats we had the kinetic capability to preempt them before being visited o...

Battle space along with al-qaeda, isis and another of other groups we now have a significant potential of al-qaeda reforming in afghanistan it will take some time but the job of u.s. counter intelligence officials has just become much, much harder. >> bret: general jack keane made that point on our air this morning. tom, take a listen to this. >> now, radical islamists are in charge of afghanistan and the united states surrendered to them. that is the way that will be sold around the whole world jihadi movement. so their is going up. their recruiting is going up. many of them are going to want...