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We go back to choke points when you are chasing human beings, especially when human instincts turn into animal instincts and that is apparently what's happening right now. he is on the run. he's -- he's got a ten-day head start. he is sleeping with one eye open but let's go back to the beginning. he had plenty of time driving that van across country. who did he call? how did he communicate? what types of apps is he -- is he using on that phone? you know, i called who's who, they are looking at the trusted circle of friends. turning their worlds upside down. he is going to make a mistake and no...

Even some americans who are now trapped in their own country despite biden's promise to get them out. clarissa ward is joining us from qatar where many of these evacuees have been heading. clarissa, can you tell us the latest? today is a very different day than yesterday. >> reporter: it certainly is. and basically, brianna, we're starting to understand how exactly these bombers were able to get so close and do so much damage. there were two bombers at two locations. the one is the abbey gate, one of the main sort of choke points as those thousands of people were desperately pushing to try to ...

There remain? >> garrett, one way to think about this, time is the enemy and i do agree with the comment speed is security. the u.s. has been there basically for ten days. in ten days, all of the american adversaries that want to cause them harm start to make plans and hurt americans in the country and its allies. what do they do? they start moving people into place and building plans for ieds. they start looking at ways to hit soft targets, the choke points around the airport. that's what we're seeing here today, a soft target, impossible for the taliban and the u.s., which were enemies, by t...

Believe isis-k is behind this. >> courtney kube, thank you. clint, i want to bring you in. we have seen crowds for days gathered around this airport. it is obviously a difficult situation to control. cia director was on msnbc earlier and said it was a, quote, nightmare scenario from a security standpoint. what do you think? >> yeah, he's exactly right. look, we don't control the perimeter in the way we might have controlled other military bases inside afghanistan. bagram air force base, we would own the security apparatus. we would know who is mounting and actually doing it. we have better tec...

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...