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People to get in to the main airfield inside the abbey gate. now, in the last few days people have been gathering there in enormous numbers. even though there have been these persistent warnings that were intensified last night with messages going out from the u.s., british, australian, other governments saying to their citizens, please get away from any kind of airport gate, because we have active intelligence of an ongoing isis plot specifically to target crowds outside of the airport, and then we hear, we see what is unfolded. if you go back to last sunday, it's clear there has been a lot o...

In all probability, locations around the airport. so that's the one point. the second point is prior to that there was a sniper attack on one of the southern gates. again, likely to be an effort to not only kill an afghan soldier which is what they did, but also see how the different military organizations that are guarding the perimeter react. there's probing attacks delivered back to the attacker. important intelligence. potentially important intelligence as to how they might go about carrying out attacks. particularly if it's more than one suicide bombing. if they had plans to follow it up ...

Overnight a sniper attack outside the kabul airport, adding to the chaos there. no indication of whether it was related to the taliban or possibly isis. after president biden's national security adviser warned sunday, the threat of a terrorist attack by isis is real, acute and persistent. this threat posing serious danger to the administration's evacuation of thousands of americans and afghan allies. joining us, former homeland security security jay johnson, who also served as general counsel at the pentagon. thank you very much for being with us. the u.s. got into afghanistan 20 years ago to ...

Overnight. what happened? >> reporter: well, amidst the intelligence reports, brianna, of this real and persistent threat coming both from national security adviser but also the president and here on the ground, extreme nervousness and worry about the threat of isis, which is an organization pledged to ruin this process both for the taliban and international community and the afghans. in the shawl hours of the morning, there was an exchange of fire beginning with a sniper attack that killed one afghan soldier. four other -- people working with the coalition to cur the outer perimeter came unde...

Bergdahl was captured by the taliban in afghanistan after walking off his post. he was later freed dishonorably discharged and reduced in rank for endangering the lives of fellow soldiers including al allen. the sniper attack left allen paralyzed and unable to talk. he leaves behind a wife and daughter. authorities revealing the crane collapse that killed four people was caused by human error. the incident that occurred was totally avoidable. if the company on site follow the crane would not have fallen and four people would not have lost their lives. jillian: this happened in seattle. workers...