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0 much but if it is significantly pushed back and what are you seeing in terms of flow to abbey gate. is it less people being allowed in or still a rush of people? which could lead to some -- what are you seeing today? >> so, what i can report as my discussion with the commanders there on the the ground is that multiple activities have taken place to increase the force protection specifically in communication with the taliban of how they are executing their check point operations and communication. so i would say there is multiple, i don't want to good into the details of the exact communicati...

There. have to let people on the air field. that's why we're there. we're not there to defend ourselves. we're there to defend ourselves while we process american citizens first and the other categories of people to a place where we can fly them out to a safer, better future. >> to be clear, this suicide bomber was going through the gate being searches, checked by u.s. service members when he detonated his vest? >> david, that would be my working assumption. he did not get on the installation. it was at the interface point where they try to come in where this attack occurred. we're gathering t...

And thorough detail about the danger and how this will of played out. he said that the final step for evacuees to get into the airport was a close up screening that had to be carried out by us military personnel and they had to get very close up. is said you could feel the breath of the other person on them. that was just a danger they couldn't avoid, he said. he said his working assumption was that the attacker had been part of that or at least the attack had happened at that place. but he also said they would have more details about exactly what happened later in the week for that right now ...

Ourselves. we're there to defend ourselves while we process american citizens first but also the other categories of people that i mentioned, get them to a place where we can fly them out to a safer, better future. >> just to be clear, this suicide bomber was going through the gate, being searched, checked by u.s. service members when he detonated his vest? >> that would be my working assumption. he did not get onto the installation. it was at the interface point where this attack occurred. we're gathering information. we're investigating that. but right now our focus really, we have other act...

A horrifyingly large number of u.s. service members lost their lives in this. it's tighter area. you are patted down with somebody in surgical gloves, your bags are searched. quite how it is that the particular individual managed to, if it is the case and the working assumption apparently is that it occurred at one of the gates, how he was picked out of the crowd and put in that p position is something they're going to be looking at with great intent. we know very few people are picked out at random outside those gates. it must have been surely been an individual they were necessarily looking ...