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0 >> all right, david, thank you. we have a bit more breaking news to add to this, the pentagon spokesman saying we can confirm the explosion at a gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of u.s. and civilian casuacasualties. another explosion a short distance from the abbey gate also took place. our breaking news coverage continues now with craig melvin. good thursday morning. craig melvin here. we continue to follow breaking news in afghanistan. explosion outside of the airport in kabul. expected to be an ied attack. word a few moments ago from pentagon spokesman. ...

>> clint, you referenced this earlier, and i want to come back to it. this is reporting from my colleague, ken delanie. after a 100-day review, the white house didn't make a decision about what might be the biggest policy decision with regard to what it's it says is the most urgent security threat to the united states, whether to seek a law with specific criminal penalties. white house officials said they didn't have enough information and asked the justice department to further review the issue. with the current posture of the republican party and its media echo chamber, i imagine that we can...

Shootings that is a difficult thing for all of us not only to understand you an indicator that should have been reported if it was noticed by others as should have been reported to authorities. that's something i think that investigators will have to take a serious look at, to what extent did this saudi air force hraupbt actually have connection with others in this regard and to what extent he actually acted on his own volition to carry out this act. >> okay. so let's look at the bigger picture here. what does this incident mean to the program that does bring hundreds of foreign military perso...

Showing, when these things happen, there's a lot that happens from a security standpoint. they will certainly be looking to safeguard all the senior leadership in the capital city there. boris johnson and others. they'll be on heightened alert here in new york city, simply the nypd which has an officer assigned in london, counterterrorism, they will be trying to learn as much as they can as quickly as possible. you can guarantee in the arch city light now nypd is starting to put its resources out on this very busy day, black friday. there are hundreds of thousands of people in new york city ri...

Kobalia. sorry, i'm not saying that right. andra kobalia. ambassador yovanovitch says you know, he's as clean as they come, determined, fearless to shake everything up and really made amazing steps forward. i mean, from a country that was getting the vast majority, something like 93% of its gas to russia, to ukraine importing zero from russia. i mean, if you think of that from a security standpoint, those are huge steps forward." oh, so that's what lev and igor were up to. again, we don't know who was paying them, don't know in whose interests they were working, don't know where they were gett...