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Gate to the kabul airport. just hours earlier the u.s. and several other western governments had warned of an imminent islamic state attack and indeed urged their citizens to stay away from the airport for good reason. a group called isis-k has claimed responsibility for the bombings. late this afternoon at the white house during emotional remarks that the included a moment of silence to remember the victims, the president vowed retribution. >> for those who carried out this attack as well as anyone who wishes america harm know this, we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you do...

Rescue afghans who were left behind. i think the reason for that, trace, we will not do anything. we are going to leave on the 31st and leave thousands of americans behind and we are not coming back. spilling the attack at the airport, fred, they knew about this threat for a week in the present keeps talking about over the horizon and intel, surveillance, drones, their equipment and yet the attack happens and we couldn't stop the attack. what do you make of not having eyes, i really, eyes on the ground in afghanistan? >> i think it is a big problem. we gave up a lot of capabilities. we just ha...

Started again, another civil war in afghanistan? i don't understand taliban and isis, are they friend or enemy? >> i think that there is clear historic evidence that they have been enemies in the past. i don't have any assessment beyond what we have said over the last few days about the fact that we have no information to suggest that the taliban had knowledge of or engagement in the isis-k attack. all i have available is or to speak to is the historic. hello, okay. what we have and we have not done this in a while is blake patterson from "the advocate" in baton rouge, louisiana. >> thank you ...

Others are still fighting to get out? >> thanks for having me, michael. it's been really rough. it's been a rough 48 hours actually. we were anticipating attacks, and that created challenges getting people safely to the airport. then of course when the attacks went off, we lost a lot of lives today. a lot of afghans lost their lives, marines, and service members lost their lives and were wounded. that pretty much shut down the airport, and then there was no movement. and fortunately for, you know, the one case that you and i were following together, we had warned them of the attack, and they w...

That's something that i've been talking to defense officials, of course, ever since this happened because one of the big questions immediately after an attack like this is the u.s. going to respond? i think that our viewers may be surprised to find out that ever since the u.s. military began the withdrawal, which really began in april or may of this year, with the military withdrawal comes a withdrawal of a lot of intelligence assets. so the u.s. military has much less of a clear picture of where some of these fighters, potential isis fighters may be and the potential to strike back is clouder...