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Seeing here, this skillset developed almost over a generation and in afghanistan's context by the taliban as well. i would say in theory therefore the taliban should know what they are looking for. we know that their security perimeter has not been effective. >> thank you so much for breaking all of that down. let's bring in cnn national security analyst julia kayhemp very helpful to have you. help us out with some of the criticism that the biden administration has been getting for relying on the taliban for securing that perimeter. in your mind, is that fair criticism or really was there no...

Right now on getting to august 31st and maintaining security at the airport. i think fair to say they are looking at what they could potentially do from the air with special forces. but getting the intelligence, the precise intelligence to target isis may be very difficult in the coming days. so they're focused on getting to the august 31st deadline and pressing the taliban to improve security even in these final days. the top u.s. military commander talked about what they want the taliban to do. >> we've reached out to the taliban. we've told them, you need to continue to push out the securit...

Closes. trey join us from doha, qutar. >> my head went to the airport and waited for 6 hours. after that i heard the news of the blast and went to 3 hospitals. >> families of those injured and killed in the blast spent hours searching for loved ones. a day after the suicide bomber targeted the airport people are still going there to flee afghanistan. the taliban is expanding its security perimeter to avoid attacks u.s. officials believe are likely. the large crowds from days prior did not gather where the explosion took place. with just 4 days until american

They're trying to get the taliban to tighten up security. have a listen. >> we reached out to the taliban. we told them, you need to continue to push out the security perimeter. we've identified some roads we would like for them to close. they have identified they will be willing to close those roads because we assessed the threat of a suicide-borne vehicle threat is high right now. we're going to reduce the possibility of one of those vehicles getting close. so we're actually moving aggressively to do that. >> reporter: so here we are as we come down to the final days of 20 years of the u.s. ...

From a small vehicle to a large vehicle, they're working all those options. >> reporter: the 5,000 combat troops at the airport have strike aircraft, drones, helicopters and gunships watching over them from the air. but mckenzie acknowledges that he has to rely on taliban checkpoints to keeic bombers away from the airport. >> we've reached out to the taliban. we have told them we need to continue to push out the security perimeter. we've identified some roads that we would like for them to close, they've identified that they will be willing to close those roads. because we assess the threat of...