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Your backpack game's strong. here is the problem, the nfl, nba you have to certain level o athletic skill. the army and marines at the sam way. you are defending the country. you are being dropped off in th middle of nowhere and this good chance you don't want to have a french manicure when you hit th ground that clears up the lights . i'm just speculating. and i will bit women in the marines are doing cardinals and jumping up and down read about getting their nails done. again, this is more of the same of the external group would try to change things instead of saying stop being so jumpy and ...

But i wonder if you can just tell us about that a little bit and what we should understand about how the taliban is moving among people. whether their checkpoints, in fact, serve any sort of security purpose at all. um, what it's like on the street? >> things are constantly changing on the ground every day. i mean, the taliban -- um -- as of yesterday or the day before yesterday, has issued a lot of us, foreign journalists, media accreditation. and now, you know, with this media accreditation, we're supposedly -- are -- are -- supposedly are able to move around easier. and avoid, you know, any...

In the comfort of a living room and to monday-morning quarterback this. but i think back to my time at private crow. i think back to my time as a ranger, as a paratrooper when i was on the ground. it's hot, it's dusty. there is yelling and screaming. there's gunshots. there's bomb blasts. you are largely sitting here with 18, 19, 20-year-olds carrying rifles trying to figure this out. and under very, very difficult e circumstances.ce so there is sometimes a huge ga between the intelligence we gather and the information we know and how we can put that w into practice on the ground. and then, th...

Photojournalist working for "the los angeles times." he is joining us live now from kabul. mr. yam plans to remain there. he was at the site of the bombing outside the gates of the kabul airport. thanks for taking such pains to be with us tonight. i know this is not an easy time difference or, indeed, an easy time. >> thank you for having me on the show. >> so, u.s. officials up to and including president biden had repeatedly warned that crowds at the airport might be targeted by an isis terrorist attack. when you've been there in recent days. when you have been among the crowds at the airport...

Afghanistan are -- have been the sworn enemy of the taliban. . >> there is complexity and there is turbulence on the ground in -- in kabul. and it's very risky and dangerous because there's a er genuine threat from isis-k. that is the reality of what we are up against, and i'm not gonna sugarcoat that reality. >> how real is this isis threat? >> the threat is real. it is acute. it is persistent. e. >> isis-k is a sworn enemy of the taliban. and they have a history of fighting one another. but every day, we have troops on the ground. these troops and innocent civilians at the airport face the r...