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Aircraft carried out an airstrike targeting a suspected car bomb. what's your reaction, who how concerned are you about the danger facing u.s. troops and american citizens and afghans over the next 48 hours? >> it speaks to the danger that exists at the airport right now and the necessity of making alternative arrangements to get especially the remaining 300 or so americans who want to leave to the airport. i think this threat remains beyond the next 48 hours. isis-k is going to use its abilities to continue to try to go after the taliban and af after afghan citizens and american allies even a...

Airport. the former ambassador to the u.s. and the global director of equality now, yasmin assan. ambassador, let me start with you. we're just two days away from the deadline for withdrawing u.s. forces. it doesn't look like that's going to change. you've been ambassador to afghanistan for three years. is that how you imagined it would come? >> no one imagined this. no one potentially guessed that this would be the way we were ending this 20 years of struggle and success and progress and everything that we had together. this is a tragic consequence. >> so, yasmin, nine days ago president bide...

To happen, at least not as efficiently as it could have and should have. i assume, as an elected representative for the people of connecticut, as someone on the foreign relations committee, you like many journalists i know, like many generals i know, are being sieged with individual requests. here is the passport number and phone number of an american citizen in afghanistan, in kabul right now, who can't get through to get to the airport or is outside the gate and can't get in. that's happening and has been going on now for a week and a half. sometimes these private citizens have been able to ...

A new samsung phone or upgrade your existing phone. learn more at your local xfinity store today. breaking news for you now, the united states says that it has carried out a defensive airstrike in kabul against an isis-k car bomb that was intending to target the airport. that's according to a u.s. defense official. the official said a significant secondary explosion indicated a substantial amount of explosive material in that car. initially so far it appears there were no civilian casualties, the official said. joining me now, president biden's drawdown, chris murphy of connecticut. he's a m...

Education, they demanded that their girls should go to school, then they showed more leniency. but now it's a different story. now they have the whole country, they are fully in control. we are just seeing the tip of the iceberg. we would be able to witness what is going to happen moving forward, really, after this month starting. but the problem is something different. if we are abandoning afghanistan, if there is no access, if the airport is not going to function, how are we even going to know what is going to happen? right now, as yasmeen was reporting, there is an easier life with taliban ...