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Afghanistan, and are you prepared to add additional forces to protect those americans who remain on the ground carrying out the evacuation operation? >> i've instructed the military whatever they need, if they need additional force, i will grant it. but the military from chairman of joint chiefs, the joint chiefs, the commanders in the field have all contacted me one way or another, usually by letter, saying they subscribe to the mission as designed to get as many people out as we can within the time frame that is allotted. that is the best way, they believe, to get as many americans out as po...

And the horrifying images that we've seen as a result of yesterday's attack. we are learning a little bit more. two suicide bombers essentially targeted two different gates. one, abby gate, which is a major choke hold with thousands of people lining up, pushing to get into the airport. and the other one outside the barron hotel. this is where we were just about a week ago. this is where the british had been using as a standing operation, a place from where they do their processing, their evacuations. they have said now that evacuation operation is completely finished, but they hasten to add th...

Secondary device seems to have detonated a bit further down the road, that may be partly responsible for more of the 90 plus afghan dead that we're dealing with here according to initial reports on top of the 13 u.s. service people killed. and then according to centcom, there was gunmen opening fire on civilians. that does suggest more certainly than one or two attackers you would think we could even be talking if there were gun men in the region of four. that is a big question for the taliban because they have been running the initial checkpoints around that area. nothing like hermetically se...

Them a better life. instead, this afternoon, they said a final goodbye. those killed in this awful attack were trying to escape years of violence in afghanistan. instead, they became the latest victims in a country torn apart by bloodshed. tens of thousands of people have been flown out of the country but, now, only foreign nationals are being allowed inside the airport. the british government has acknowledged some of those who want to leave will be left behind, like this former interpreter. i think it's not fair. it's like a betrayal of their own heroes. these are the last days of a chaotic e...

Questions as to how that size of an attack got through the taliban checkpoints, particularly if there are individuals there who were in fact armed. many questions to be answered here certainly, but the biggest one i think for today, for the urgent evacuation operation that the u.s. is insisting is continuing is how do you get people through those gates at all with this sort of security risk? michael. >> yeah, absolutely. nick paton walsh, appreciate the analysis there. thanks for that. let's turn now to cnn's arlette saenz who has reaction from the white house. our natasha bertrand is coveri...