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For the biden administration. obviously, for the pentagon, the largest loss of life in afghanistan of military personnel in a decade. it really does feel like a shocking moment. but perhaps not all together unexpected given that american officials have been warning about threats, intelligence that they have detected suggesting that the islamic state's afghanistan branch would attempt to strike the united states in the western nations that, you know, kind of are a sitting target at the airport as they try to evacuate their own citizens and then afghan allies. but it's still, it's something that...

For future threats. we got an indication about how the evacuation is going to start looking going forward. i do think we're going to get a bunch of information how this progresses probably for security reasons. i spoke to a source directly familiar with the situation in the airport who said it looks like the evacuation operation was beginning to wind down now. again we heard there they will continue to evacuate people to the end. but it is going to come a time when that capacity to process new arrivals in that airport diminishes because they don't have the personnel there any more. this is a e...

Afghans remain desperate to board one of the final flights out of the country. this second blast took place outside the baron hotel. we had also visited that place on our way out of afghanistan. this was essentially the british standing area processing point for their evacuation operation. they have now announced today that that evacuation operation is finished, completed and closed. but they did stress, brianna and john, that this is not as a result of this horrific bombing but this was in line with their previous schedule. as you mentioned before, those u.s. evacuations are continue in g is.

>> now, jake, in the final days of the reign of the previous afghan government in kabul and the arrival of the taliban, large numbers, an unknown number of isis prisoners held by the government and held by the americans at bagram prison were released in the general chaos. they weren't deliberately released. they simply escaped when the cell doors were opened. and there is great concern that those, of course, will have swelled the ranks of the so-called islamic state and the khorasan at a time when actually the taliban had been very effectively trying to crush them. jake. >> cnn's sam kiley liv...

These isis terrorists will not win. we will rescue the americans, we will get our afghan allies out, and our mission will go on. america will not be intimidated. i have the utmost confidence in our brave service members who continue to execute this mission with courage and honor to save lives and get americans, our partners, our afghan allies out of afghanistan. >> the first question to the president today was from nbc's kelly o'donnell. >> do you believe you will authorize additional forces to respond to that attack inside afghanistan, and are you prepared to add additional forces to protect ...