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As we said a swift reaction today from republicans following a deadly attack in kabul, minority leader kevin mccarthy has called for the house to return to vote on a bill banning the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan until all the americans are evacuated. at the same time republican lawmakers including senators josh holly and marsha blackburn have demanded the president resign. talk about it with two of our friends. dona edward, former democratic member of congress, now a "the washington post" columnist and mark mckennen, former advisor to both george w. bush and john mccain. also amo...

Die. >> congressman, stay with us. we're at the top of the hour, 13 u.s. service members and according to the associated press at least 95 afghans are dead following the terror attacks we've been talking about in kabul. richard engel reports on what happened on the ground. >> reporter: it was every soldier and marine in kabul's worst fear, an attack where they're most exposed. as troops were patting down an evacuee at a kabul airport gate searching for a bomb, he or she, that's still unclear, detonated one. >> the breath of the person you are searching is upon you. we have to touch the clothes...

Al roker is here and inspiring lessons from a young man now fulfilling his olympic dreams >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening, everyone a war that over 20 years has cost our country so much grief is still taking american lives practically to the bitter end at least a dozen u.s. troops were killed after two explosions rocked the area around the kabul airport. just five days before u.s. forces are scheduled to depart for good a suicide bomber detonating at what's known as the abbey gate to the airport where crowds gathered. a second bomb struck outside a ho...

Cnn international security editor, nick paton walsh, recently spent time in afghanistan. he is with us live this hour from doha in qatar. arlette saenz has reaction for us from the white house. and natasha bertrand is covering the u.s. state department. nick, let's go to you, first. what more do we know about what happened? why? and how? >> yeah. i mean, it's important to slowly piece together the details of this because according to the pentagon, this was what they call a complex attack. many different elements to it. now, it seems as though probably the first explosion was a suicide bomber. ...

I was struck yesterday by what we kept hearing out of officials, primarily at the white house, but someone at the pentagon as well. about how after the august 31st deadline, they would continue to work to get more people out who wanted to get out, particularly get americans out. i would be interested to know exactly how that's going to happen. i can only imagine that the state department and the white house are working on some diplomatic means to try to make that happen. the u.s. has been working with these negotiations and the talks with the taliban, the qataris have a strong presence and the...