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0 >> officials believe isis-k was behind the attacks, but they're still working to confirm that. the state department had been warning for days of a terror attack at the airport. we have reporters standing by. let's start with barbara starr at the pentagon. what do we know about these military members who were killed and what we're expected to hear from the pentagon? >> in just a very short while we are expecting to hear from general frank mckenzie, the head of the u.s. central command which oversees military operations in the gulf, the middle east, afghanistan. we expect to hear from him. i s...

Officials here. so this is a remarkable logistical achievement set against this background of extraordinary negotiations between the united states and the taliban. the two leading belligerents up until the taliban conquest of kabul with the exception, of course, of the afghan government itself. with high-level meeting now that we're going to hear more about with your guest just now, and ongoing fire fights. last night until about 5:00 this morning from about 4:00 to 5:00, just off to the west here, there was very heavy exchange of small arms and medium-size weapons fire. went on for a long tim...

And that's why the president's decision to withdraw was so critical. i also really just want to underscore the critical point here, which is that this president's choice was not between status quo, between the contractors and logisticians. this president's decision was do we ramp up the american military footprint and engage in full-scale combat with the taliban for yet another decade. because if he had decided to stay past president trump's agreement, the taliban would've launched their fighting season again, and we'd be back in fire fights. >> it wasn't that long ago when you were leading co...

Fire behavior. >> we had to evacuate on monday. it was probably more than 20 miles away, and now it's within 4 miles of our house. >> it was raining ash. it was dark skies. everyone kind of had this worried ominous feeling, you know, you can tell there was panic. >> reporter: also, the national interagency fire center is coming out right now and they're basically begging people to stop flying their personal drones over fire fights. they're saying that 19 times there have been drone incursions. firefighters will tell you off camera they call those [ expletive ] hobby drones. in all of last year...

Their families who have provided such exceptional service during our long mission. these are friends. united states who have conexemplary and courageous work. >> joining me now is matt zeller, afghan war veteran and advisory board of the association of wartime allies. good to have you with us. i know that you served in afghanistan, but tell our viewers how integral were these interpreters to you doing your job successfully? >> thanks for having me. simply put they were more important to our survival than our weapons. the taliban understood that, that's why they shot hat them first in fire figh...