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Identification, is it just a question of pushing your way through the mob? >> yeah, spending the whole day basically clawing your way to the front of this mob in the hopes that you'll catch the soldiers' attention when you're at the front. that's the kind of desperate tactics that people have to resort to. and the thing is that the airport gates and everything, they were set up for vehicle access, mostly, and they were set up with all these blast walls to protect against, you know, vehicle borne suicide attacks, car bombs. and this kind of architecture, this fortress architecture, create death...

Convoy that was returning to bagram leading to the deaths of three marines. and i believe three or four were wounded in the attack. so bagram is no more -- a better defense at stopping suicide attacks then karzai's. so, you know. that's just the reality. >> yes thank you for that. you are right. point taken. yamiche, any reason to think look there is any room for mission creep here or was the lesson of the day watched the presidents words, look at his attitude, this, if anything, hardened his resolve? >> we based on my conversations with white house officials all day, this week's deadly attack...

There taliban complicity. we don't have an answer to that. it is one of the questions we have been asking here. but among the real threats that they're very concerned about, additional suicide attacks like the one we saw yesterday, explosives placed in vehicles, they're very worried about someone getting a vehicle with explosives packed in it onto the airport grounds or to one of the gates. then the third thing is rocket attacks. that's been persistent, a persistent problem throughout afghanistan throughout 20 years the u.s. military has been there, rocket attacks onto airports specifically, b...

Government and if we were to look back over the last year or two at the number of suicide attacks by isis-k inside of kabul, or inside of other places throughout afghanistan, you would find quite a few of them. and every single time that the people have blamed the ghani government for not protecting them against this kind of terrorist attack. so this was truthfully concerned me from the very beginning. i'm sure it concerned the commanders on the ground. a suicide attack, as soon as you -- the bomber comes up to your checkpoint, whether it is taliban or american, if they're discovered having a ...

Reach out to those americans who remain in the country. the president said they have established contact with the majority of them. and -- and there are really fulsome efforts in the coming days will be focused on trying to get those americans out safely before that august-31st deadline. >> all right, arlette, thanks. arlette saenz there in washington. let's turn now to natasha bertrand joining me with more on this. natasha, what are you hearing about continuing isis threats to u.s. forces and afghans around the airport? >> yeah, michael. the threat continues to be very acute, according to off...