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A possibility of an isis k attack. it is very high risk. >> blinken says they are scrambling to get roughly 1500 americans stuck in afghanistan who want to get out, though the secretary believes the number is lower emphasizing the actual number nruk waits but suggests they don't have an exact handle on how many could possibly be left behind with just days to go in the contingency plan to get anyone out past august 31st is wholely dependent on the taliban. as for a diplomatic presence after august 31 they are looking at a series of options. we hope to hear more about those plans at a briefing t...

That ten u.s. servicemembers were killed in that attack outside of the kabul airport. >> john: this is a devastating day and we hope that number doesn't continue to rise. but as jennifer mentions, it is likely to as the threat from attacks is built up. sometimes these attacks come in waves. and sometimes the first attack is a signal to another attack. i have been to that airport and in a normal time is a sea of humanity and at this time, thousands and thousands of people outside those blast walls with the marines on the inside and making decisions and life and death decisions as mothers are pl...

Handled this. the british defense secretary is a former soldier. he actually got emotional during an interview last week, saying that it was pretty much inevitable that afghan allies of the uk were going to get left behind in kabul because of this timeline set by president biden. there has not been the same level, i would say, of political interest here in britain that there has been in the u.s. about the war in afghanistan. there's not much discussion about forever wars in this country in the way there is in the u.s. but the uk has suffered fewer casualties than the u.s. has. it has spent les...

Just to put some sort of perspective here. and the last time that u.s. servicemembers were killed in afghanistan was february of 2020. i wanted to bring you that updated death toll. >> john: jennifer, thank you for that devastating news. >> sandra: john, so many of these marines had already been deployed there and fought there and had gone home and sent back. and martha, just absolutely horrible news continues to come in. 11 marines now confirmed dead in that attack. one navy medic. >> yeah, it's absolutely heartbreaking and just a devastating day for the united states. i don't think that anyo...

Others fleeing afghanistan were sitting for hours and hours outside the gate, not permitted to travel those last few yards into the airport. the culmination of what the president and his top aides had been warning about all week. >> every day we're on the ground is another day we know that isis-k is seeking to target the airport and attack both u.s. and allied forces and innocent civilians. >> we're operating in a hostile environment in a city and country now controlled by the taliban with the very real possibility of an isis-k attack. >> the threat is real. it is acute. it is persistent. >> t...