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>> this is a massively well coordinated attack that is nothing short of a declaration of war on this country. >> and then another issue is i'm also in the military. i'm in the navy reserves. so i'm not sure at the moment, but am i going to be called up to fight or not? am i going to have to help protect our country? >> the rescue workers said we need stretcher bearers so i just ran and picked up a stretcher and headed further inside the security perimeter. i found myself looking at the door that led down the corridor to shelly's office. and there was smoke coming out

>> the rescue workers said we need stretcher bearers so i just ran and picked up a stretcher and headed further inside the security perimeter. i found myself looking at the door that led down the corridor to shelly's office. and there was smoke coming out and it was still burning and everything. you know, i stayed and i didn't have a choice. i knew that if she was in there and she was alive, she was expecting me to come get her. >> we gathered people at work, colonels, majors, specialists. we pulled people out of smokey rooms, we carried wounded. we tried prying open doors with our hands becau...

>> well, i'm not surprised that isis, which seems to be behind these attacks is continuing to try to breach the security perimeter and kill people. and i'm also not surprised that the u.s. has developed ways of countering these threats. i'm not surprised that they worked. the military is very, very good at that kind of thing. what is interesting to me, though, is where the intelligence came from. i mean, it's possible that there's actually a sort of live relationship between taliban commanders, taliban intelligence on the ground and the u.s. military where the taliban are feeding information t...

That's the amount of money dedicated to afghanistan. so officials, i want to be clear on this, too, officials are clear they don't trust the taliban but they think their interests in some case are aligned and that's the north star going forward. it's a difficult situation, and when u.s. troops actually leave on the ground, that will be one of the first tests. so far as we heard from generals like general mckenzie, they're clearly working with the taliban on the security perimeter, the perimeter of the airport, so at least military to military the contacts are holding. >> before we go, i wanted...

We are dependent on the taliban. this insurgent group we have been fighting in afghanistan for two decades for our security on the ground. the u.s. military has established this very unusual working relationship with taliban commanders who are now running the city of kabul. they said you need to do more to protect the airport from our joint enemy of isis as we pull out. they have asked the taliban to expand the security perimeter away from the gates of kabul airport to give a little more breathing room for u.s. troops. and to try to avoid whatever it is they think isis are planning, be it anot...