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Thanks to michael lieder as well. grateful to you both. and we are following breaking news out of afghanistan. two separate explosions, at least three service members were injured. 13 people, including children, were killed in the attacks outside the airport. joining me, director of the center on national security at ford ham law, karen greenburg, author of the book subtle tools. karen, what is your reaction to what we're seeing in kabul today? >> yeah, i mean, the reaction is we were told this might happen. we were told by many it would happen, but seeing it is devastating. it speaks so much ...

President who has been traveling to asia is on her way back and she was briefed using the bells and whistles on air force two. she was scheduled to go to california. we'll see if there will be changes to her schedule, travel for the first lady planned for next week has already been postponed and it gives you a sense of how fluid all of this is and how the president needs to gather the facts and decide what he will do next and how he'll tell the american people about it. andrea? >> a major decision on so many levels. kelly, thank you so much and joining me now, michael lighter under presidents ...

They've conducted dozens of attacks over the years in afghanistan and pakistan and this fertile ground in afghanistan with basically no government in place and widespread local grievances and insecurity. this is the kind of place they look for as they've lost territory elsewhere lost territory elsewhere in the region. for the u.s., we heard from the beginning of plans for withdrawal was remaining american interest, over the horizon interest, keeping the capability they wanted to keep to counter groups like this. this is one of the rare places where u.s. and taliban interests do align. >> and m...

For hours you don't even have that. >> you don't have the crucial recording. >> there is so little to work with. >> michael, interestingly enough, there are no terrorist groups taking responsibility for what happened with this airplane. from your reading of this, does this seem like the work of possibly a lone wolf that was a deliberatele criminal act or a suicide mission? >> luke, i don't see a great likelihood that this is an organized terrorist group behind this. i say it because of are where the plane was flying, the route it was on, the region and the lack of any indication from any intel...