one of the questions we're waiting to hear from the pentagon is an update on what pentagon press secretary said ellier today. a number of u.s. and civilian casualties, the extent of those injuries and, of course, the number. that's the key update we're waiting for. other decisions how this effects the operation need to be figured out. the pentagon planned for a number of different possibilities and we've known there was an ongoing threat from isis-k and known the tactics they try to use. suicide bombings as well as vehicle born improvised explosive devices. now that this has gone from a chaos outside the airport to a catastrophe outside the airport, there are difficult decisions to make, but decisions crucial ones that will effect how the next 100 hours plays out from a u.s. perspective. >> trying to figure out how to extricate the remaining americans at the very least who want to leave, that's a complicated task now. >> comply cayed, i would say, is an understatement here. if it's unsafe to move them on the ground, be it by simply having them walk or simply by having them take a car, you

we know from pentagon sources and anybody on the hill is getting their information from here at the pentagon it was a coordinated attack. any time you have two explosions, a suicide bombing and ongoing fire fight and second explosions at a nearby hotel that's a coordinated terrorist attack. the question is who carried it out. there is no way of nothing right now and right now the military is trying to get those evacuees off the tarmac and out of harm's way. >> harris: the part new coming from chad pergram on capitol hill. congressional sources are telling fox news that -- i can only imagine how hard it is. congress is out of session nou. it says it is hard to brief members unless they can get to a single, local, secured location and why information is so fragmented right now. they're unable to get the information. you are learning more than what some of those members are able to get because they can't get to the secure locations. it is a whole lot of information we're bringing our virus. well -- viewers. founder and director of the security institute is in focus now. we've been able to get i

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host: how was your report received by the pentagon? guest: the pentagon of course was not happy that the information was leaked to me. yesterday john kirby, the pentagon spokesperson, he condemned what he called the unlawful leak of classified information at such a sensitive time as the operations are wrapping up. of course, politico is aware of this activity and there was certainly information that we withheld, knowing we didn't want to put any troops in harm's way and didn't want to jeopardize the operation either. i think that while the pentagon was not happy, politico and myself, we handled it as responsible journalists should. host: thanks for being with us this morning. guest: thank you so much. host: opening caller: good morning, this is the first time calling. i think the legacy of afghanistan is american ignorance. first of all, they should've learned the lesson to dwight eisenhower and harry s truman, who said that korea was a mistake. an endless war. we go through vietnam, kennedy said, in a press conference in 1962. i do no

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do not pentagon briefing the the pentagon spokesperson was boasting about how well we've been doing exercises since may and table top exercise is looking at all sorts of different contingencies that he's always point like. and was one of those contingencies that youth role plays at the pentagon. that's cobble a couple were for this rapidly. he said, well, i can't really tell you. so give you the information about that. and that goes the next question is, i'm did you, when you a role playing all these contingencies? tell joe biting about some of these contingencies, and he wouldn't be drawn on that. but that's the fundamental fundamental problem here is yes, the big picture, hopefully the bite administration things will be enough to carry them through this . but in the end there, why was it or poorly planned? and i understood that this organization was he's not answering bible says, the buck stops with me. but then he just claims the african politicians and the african military, which he then he then measures and then puts into a sort of a circular argument that because of the afghan failure o

let's go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara, i know there is a briefing coming up at the pentagon at the top of the hour. we'll get more information. but what more do we know right now about this drone strike carried out in afghanistan last night? >> reporter: well, the word came here in washington overnight, wolf, that the u.s. military had launched a drone strike from outside of afghanistan. w against a target in nangarhar province, southeastern afghanistan, a long-time stronghold of isis-k. they say they killed the target, the person they were looking for, and no civilian casualties. we khave no additional details. there was, in fact, knowledge intelligence had firmed up in recent days. we are told this person, this isis-k planner was suspected of being involved in planning future attacks at the airport. they had had eyes on him for some time. the level of confidence in the intelligence was a bit low, so they were firming it up. when they had it in hand, they were ready to go. he was in a compound, they believe, with

the pentagon saying it's not doable. mccarthy trying to go over the heads of democrat leaders, a big fight in congress with a longshot move to get it done the bill, it needs to 18 posts. a serious tragedy unfolding us. the house on services and former state department official, paul, a navy national security affairs expert. first you, congressman. they wanted hundreds of americans out who couldn't get out, they wanted to leave. thousands of afghan allies, too. what youll say? >> i say president biden lied to the american people. he said get everybody out and he didn't. just this morning i was having a back-and-forth with two american citizens outside the gate@kabul international with their children and couldn't get in. american citizens left behind. thankfully congressional offices, nonprofits, veterans groups have stepped up in this vacuum of leadership from this administration and we are trying to smuggle them out but this notion we can trust the taliban, they tell held an american hostagehe for the last year. his name

what is the advice the pentagon is giving them? >> what i tell you, largely speaking, we know we have an obligation to help these individuals and their families who helped us so much over the last 20 years and we have been focused on this for quite some time. there is a process by which they can apply for these visas and the state department opened up the umbrella for other p1and p2 opportunities. i'm not an expert on that process but there is a process to follow and highly encourage if they aren't already in the system to get themselves into the system. i understand if i think i understand the second gist of your question is, are we going to be able to physically move someone from somewhere else in the country into the airport and right now, our focus is on the airport itself, and making sure that it stays safe and secure and that air operations which have resumed can sustain themselves going forward and an awful lot that has to be done in that. again, sacred obligation, we take seriously, there is a process and i would highly enc

the pentagon had been directed to order those up. and we're now watching very carefully to see what the defense department will say. moving forward, there is a pentagon briefing that a schedule, and there is no question that what is on the minds of so many reporters in that room is the very latest on what is happening at the cobble airport. for the i wouldn't take him because all white house correspondent, thanks very much. let's just bring it to speed on what we know so far. we all got to get taliban source. now saying that as many as 11 people have been killed at cobble airport, including foreigners, and also suggested that children may of also been injured. as kimberly, also concerned from us from the us. we are also getting the same from the pentagon, that 3 us personnel has also been injured in that blast, which happened just over an hour ago. the germans and the turks. nothing has happened to them though they were close or in the vicinity of the blast they seemed to be okay. let's cross over to charlie angelo in our london broa

pentagon officials say a number of u.s. service members were killed in these attacks in kabul, at least one blast was the result of a suicide bomber near the main gate of the city's airport where this evacuation effort has been going on for several days now. the other blast was at or near a nearby hotel. >> let's bring in our analysts. we have general wesley clark, a cnn military analyst and former nato supreme allied commander. david sanger, political and national security analyst and white house and correspondent for "the new york times." and we also have with us cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson. thank you for being here. bob baer, i want to start with you because of your expertise in intelligence and security because we had the intelligence. it was last night that the u.s. embassy in kabul did put out the intelligence there was a likely -- there was a credible terror threat and told americans to stay away from the airport, but still we couldn't completely protect our troops. so what do you see that's hap

here is what we know confirmed by the pentagon. the first explosion occurred in a large crowd near the airport. the second glass was confirmed to have happened at or near the baron hotel, not are from the airport. president biden has been briefed in the white house situation room. the white house has released a statement, saying the president has met with his national security team including secretary of state antony blinken, secretary of defense lloyd austin, general mark milley, and commanders on the ground, and that he will continue to be briefed throughout the day. concerning the twin explosions, and gone spokesperson john kirby said we can confirm the explosion at the abbey gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of u.s. and civilian casualties. we can also confirm at least one other explosion at or near the baron hotel, a short distance from abdicate. we will continue to update. dow jones is reporting the u.s. ambassador in kabul has called -- told staff that four marines have been killed. global new

on hearing from the pentagon. this was a complex attack that resulted and in these casualties already. are you concerned that we may see more today or in the coming days? yeah, i mean there's a lot of nightmare concerns here. i mean, one of the problems is that, you know, you're dealing with a large number of desperate people who do not behave as rational people. you know, they don't know when you know what the next plan a lift off is the last plane. and so if you're a soldier where you want to say, ok everybody spaced out, let's look at you. they're not going to follow that. they're going to come rushing . because for them, it's literally a matter of life or death. and the problem is the soldiers when they see people coming at them, now that there's been a suicide bomb, they don't know if these people are suicide bombers as well. so it's very, very hard for soldiers. you know, there's, there's the possibility. ready of shooting people, you don't want to shoot. there's possibility of unfriendly engagements. there'

the pentagon saying that is not doable. leader mccarthy a long shot with a bill that needs 218 votes. this is serious tragedy. joining us florida congressman michael waltz and steve capper a naval expert. congressman, they couldn't get hundreds of americans who wanted to get out, hundreds of americans who wanted to leave, thousands of afghan allies too. what do you say to this. >> i say president biden lied to the american people. he said he would get everybody out and he didn't. just this morning i was having a back and forth with two american citizens outside of the gate at kabul international with their children and couldn't get in. american citizens left behind. thankfully congressional offices, non-profits, veterans groups, have stepped up in this vacuum of leadership coming from this administration and we're trying to smuggle them out. you know what? this notion that we can trust the taliban, they have held an american hostage for the last year. his name is mark treic. he is a navy veteran. they haven't let him go. th

and that is clear from the pentagon response today. question is how quickly could they fix the situation, kate. ted lieu is now of a member of congress, he tweeted something that i thought was so fascinating yesterday and he said that back when he was serving, what he did was to airlift people in iraq during saddam hussein, the kurds who example who were in his cross-hairs and they did that and they got the paperwork done afterwards. so airlift out, ask questions later. and so that is what i'm hearing from even the president's staunchest allies is concern that there is too much bureaucracy with helping people that are in harm's way. especially those that helped american. >> absolutely. and peter there are reports that taliban is urging women to join their government. they're trying tosy they're reformed and more moderate. taliban co-founder has just arrives in afghanistan. u.s. military commanders are in touch with the taliban at kabul airport. i lay all of this hout because i want your perspective if you think there is -- is there rea

there is supposed to be a pentagon briefing at 10:30. as with everything on the ground has changed and what is going on with the administration right now has changed. let's get over to kylie atwood at the state department. what are you hearing from there? >> reporter: two bits of new news in the tweet from spokesperson john kirby. first of all, this is a complex, in his words, attack. that demonstrates this wasn't just a one-off but many multiple parts to it. and saying there were two at least two explosions. there could have been more. this is clearly an unfolding situation. we're talking to the sources closely monitoring it but it is significant to note that the state department put out an alert to all american citizens saying there was an explosion and saying there were reports of gunfire. so clearly this isn't just the explosions but there are gunfire happening. also, important spokesperson said that one of the explosions happening at the abbey gate. it is significant because that is one of the main gates, the main artery into the ai

from the pentagon just now. we can confirm that a number of us serious -- servicemembers were killed at the airport. >> sandra: going back to are we leading? . >> things are fluid here at the state department. we do know for sure, at this hour is there is no greater penalty than the 1500 americans that believe to be stranded now. there was a warning sent out that u.s. citizens should avoid the airport and the gates. we don't know the fate of the 1500 are. we do know yesterday from secretary blinken's briefing, there is 500 at the airport and they were aggressively pursuing to make contact to see if they wanted out or not. with this devastating attack at the abbey gate, this has made it different and put the state department on a different footing. if we remember what was said after the august 31st deadline, they would be fully dependent on the taliban to ensure the safe passage for american and afghan allies who were trying to get out. we have seen the taliban condemning these attacks, but we don't know where th

there has been a statement released by the pentagon. what does the pentagon have to say. >> the mission continues is the major headline here with -- the old mitt goal here is to keep the roads closed and under control with an attempt to avoid such large accumulations of people that we have seen their surrounding the cobbler over recent days -- kabul airport over recent days. in addition to that, no recent service members are going to afghanistan. we do expect more attacks to happen. general mckenzie of central command said they are currently looking 24/7 for the people behind those attacks and that potential retaliation attacks are quite possible. brent: have you heard that there could be the possibility that these attacks could be used to justify an extension of the u.s. mission beyond august 31? >> there has been some talk of a potential extension. however, president biden time and time again said he believes the longer the u.s. stays on the ground, the higher possibility that the forces there, and afghans who are trying to leave the

pentagon press briefing what's unfolding in afghanistan. he only has a couple of minutes so i want to right away go to capitol hill. senator tom cotton, republican from arkansas who sits on the armed services, judiciary and intelligence committees. senator cotton, i'll jump right in. i just tweeted the headline or one of them was when asked whether or not the pentagon knows how many americans are left in afghanistan, there was a one word answer, no. what is your reaction to that? >> the situation around the kabul airport is getting worse by the day. kirby stressed how many lights are landing and control of the tarmac but violent chaos outside of the airport. my office has been in touch with dozens of people on the ground outside the airport where the taliban are beating people and taking their passports. taking their visa papers. all of this is happening just a few yards away from the gates and american soldiers are not allowed to venture beyond that perimeter to try to secure american citizens who are making their way through these crowds

it's been confirmed by the pentagon. there's been a bombing, and it is something that we have been anticipating or expecting with multiple threats being confirmed throughout the day from multiple sources that, that potentially there was a bombing that was being planned that has been planned by the, the, the branch in afghanistan of islamic states, that's who we believe that the main threat has come from. although it hasn't been claimed by them and hasn't been put on them at the moment. we know from our colleagues down that after the explosions happened, that the taliban was poor forcing people away from the area. there was a large rush of people, several 100 people, according to our colleagues who were down there. witnessing this, running away from the scene of the blas that was firing in the air. we believe that fire was probably from the taliban again to try to disperse people. the fear with all of these attacks is that once you have one explosion, there is always the danger of a secondary explosion. so we understand t

that's a technical pentagon term. the drawdown of both people and equipment will be done in the same manner that we would do it anywhere else. obviously there is a strong bias to be able to get our material out with our people. if there needs to be destruction or other disposition of equipment there at the airport we'll do that appropriately. >> can i ask you about the bottleneck? you got 20,000 people out in the past 24 hours, a big number. do you have 20,000 people now inside the airport to get out in the next 24 hours, or are there bottlenecks preventing people from getting in and getting people on planes and those planes in the air because there is nowhere to receive them? >> i will talk to you about just bottlenecks. i talked a little bit about that earlier. as we -- those that depart kabul and get to those staging bases within u com or centcom, that's the coordination i was talking about earlier to insuring that we place, you know, evacuees in one of those 14 locations to prevent a bottleneck so as our increased

barbara starr is at the pentagon. is there any new information about what happened here, specifically about casualties. >> reporter: i think what don said is the operative word at the moment. somebody may well know but here at the pentagon they are not publicly saying anything about the possible of casualties. and i think it is very important to sort of take a deep breathe here and remember that there are u.s. military families who know their loved ones are serving at airport who are watching every minute of this and they want to get word about what has happened and if any of their loved ones are in jeopardy. just like the afghans who are at the airport. they're families are going to want to know if their loved ones have been hurt, wounded or even killed in this attack. a lot of people, the world's eyes focused on this airport and a lot of family members on all sides wanting to know what is happened to their loved ones. it is going to be important to remember that the pentagon has very strict notification procedures w

pentagon says casualties are still unclear at this point. we know that the president has been briefed on the explosion. he was in a preplanned national security meeting this morning. white house officials are huddling as we speak. we hope to learn more from them soon. the airport has been under a terror threat all morning. this was going to our top story even before this attack. so, americans have been told to leave the airport gates and to stay away. all of this is happening as the pentagon is set to give an update in the next 30 minutes. we'll see if that remains on schedule and we'll bring it to you live when it happens. meantime we'll try to stay on top of this with our reporters. courtney kube is at the pentagon. geoff bennett remains at the white house. and sanchez is in london. what do we know so far, courtney? >> reporter: we know very little details. so far, this appears to be an explosion that occurred outside the airport at the abby gate. for perspective, the abby gate is over on the far southeast side of the airport. it's voupded

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i want to bring back lucas tomlinson at the pentagon. he brought the report at the top of the hour of this isis k planner, what can you tell us? >> reporter: the us reefer drone fly in from the middle east in the united arab emirates that flew from the middle east, into eastern afghanistan, to kill this isis planner. not necessarily and isis leader but isis planner in retaliation for deadly suicide attack that killed 13 american servicemembers yesterday and wounded another 20, the dignified transfer to dover air force base, we expect that tomorrow and also expecting president biden to attend that ceremony when 13 americans return. on also told president biden approved this strike. the suicide attack, he said he would carry out revenge, kill those responsible. the big question was with 5000 us troops on the ground in kabul would that strike happen? 5000 us troops at the couple airport, would he wait until after they had departed? president biden's deadline of august 30 first. what we can say is two days after the deadly suicide attack tha

did he try to rope the pentagon into that kind of planning? all documents and communications related to the potential use of military power to impede or ensure the peaceful transition of power between the time of the election up through and including the inauguration of president biden. all documents and communications concerning possible attempts by president trump to remain in office after january 20th, 2021. from election day, november 3rd, to january 20th, all documents and communications related to the possibility of invoking the insurrection act. including but not limited to documents and communications concerning that possibility with respect to preparation for the events of january 6th. all documents and communications on january 6th relating to the employment of law enforcement personnel or military assets to the u.s. capitol. oh, yeah. why didn't law enforcement and military personnel get to the u.s. capitol sooner? why don't we know more about that? and why did the army tell an untrue story about the number of people and one particu

what does that comment from the pentagon tell us about the l from the pentagon tell us about the planning of this, how organised or otherwise it was, what sort of wrecking would of been done or is needed? the picture of all those people messing around the airport were available around the world. that is the difficult thing, is it was not hard for those planning this attack to pick a target. they knew where to go, and they almost certain he would have done some kind of reconnaissance to see what the checks, for instance, were. the complexity is you have got the taliban out at checkpoints, and before you get to those checkpoints, in this case, with american troops, 13 of them killed, and questions being asked in washington about, where the taliban providing enough security? clearly in the chaos, it was possible with some reconnaissance for a suicide bomber to get through those initial taliban checks, amidst these huge crowds congregating around the airport, and then get close enough. it looks like they were perhaps targeting american troops as well because so many of them were killed and th

about a half hour pentagon briefing with john kirby, the pentagon press secretary, and major general hank taylor. we got three important headlines out of the briefing. first, not one but two isis-k facilitators and planners, terrorists, were killed in that u.s. drone strike yesterday. one facilitator and planner was wounded. we also learned that the terror threats from the u.s. perspective that remain during these final three days of the u.s. military withdraw and evacuations, the terror threats remain in the words of these pentagon officials, very real, very active, and very dynamic. and we also got an update on the number of individuals who have been evacuated from afghanistan over these past several days since august 14th. a total now of 117,000 u.s. citizens, green card holders, afghan allies, other afghans, third-country individuals. 117,000 have been evacuated over these past couple weeks or so. 5,400 of them, 5,400 of them u.s. citizens. most obviously of the 117,000, afghans. we have a team of reporters and experts covering all of this. cnn's nick paton walsh is joining us fr

the pentagon spokesman says a number of u.s. marines why killed in the bomb attacks outside the kabul airport. the pentagon did not mention an exact number of casualties, but the wall street journal is reporting the number killed stands at four u.s. troops and 60 afghans the first american soldiers killed in afghanistan in a year and a half we are expecting more details from a pentagon news conference that was just scheduled for 3:00 p.m. eastern boris johnson says the attacks will not interrupt evacuation efforts and paid respects for the victims. >> members of the u.s. military sadly lost their lives and many afghan casualties as well. we extend our condolences both to the united states of america and to the people of afghanistan. >> and the taliban is condemning the attacks saying it happened in an area controlled by u.s. forces the taliban says it is paying close attention to security but it is unclear if the taliban did anything to thwart the attacks tyler, back to you >> very, very interesting, rahel. thank you very much.

no one unnamed us, official says, there are 3 from the pentagon. what they are saying officially is that there are a number of american casualties. no idea how many new idea how serious they are at this point. hopefully that will become clearer in the next hour or so. but it's, kimberly was rightly pointing out was sitting in the situation room with a secretary of state and also a secretary of defense. joe biden will get easy access to that information. he will know that before we even get a sniff of that information. clearly, there have been contingency plans drawn up because joe biden said he wants the evacuation to be done by august 30. first. he was presented with those contingency plans by the pentagon on wednesday, saying, sorry, this is what happens if x, y, and z, dad happens. they know have to add a new fact or what happens if there is an attack like this. but it's not as if the american didn't know this was coming. on tuesday, joe biden warned that there was a potential for an attack from ice o k, the off shoot in afghanistan all over the

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did he tried to rub the pentagon into that planning? oh, why didn't law enforcement and military personnel get to the u.s. capitol sooner? why don't we know more about that? and why did the army telling untrue story about the number of people and one particular person who was apparently involved in this discussion? well chairman thompson and the committee are planning on getting to the bottom of. that asking the pentagon, as of today, for all documented communications relating to the initial delight by pentagon officials that lieutenant general charles flynn, mark flynn's brother, participated in meetings on january six relating to the response to the attack. on january 6th, as mike flynn had stoked crowds, had stoked trump supporters, into believing that they could do something on january six that would stop biden from becoming president and would keep trump in office his brother, charles flynn, was part of pentagon discussions that day as to whether or not overrun capital police and d.c. police at the u.s. capital would get back up. a

two separate pentagon briefings already today. on everything from helicopter exfiltrations of afghan evacuees to evacuation flights and their numbers to babies be born onboard those evacuation flights. he's done a lot of work already today, but i still have more questions and he's been kind enough to join us tonight to come answer them. admiral kirby, thank you so much. i know it's been a long couple weeks. even a long day today. thank you. >> my pleasure, rachel. thank you. >> let me start by asking you not about the most important thing, but something my interest was very piqued by at the second pentagon briefing in which we learned there wasn't just one baby born on one of these flights, one of these evacuation flights this weekend at ramstein in germany, but the general who you were briefing with, actually said there's been three babies born in these circumstances. >> yeah, that's right. he surprised everybody, including me, on that. this is general steve lyons, the commander of u.s. transportation command. we wanted him to co

the pentagon has announced the completion of military evacuations of from the country. and in the 20 your mission there. last, see 17 lifted off from hammered cars. international airport on august 30th this afternoon at 3 29 pm east coast time. and the last manned aircraft is now clearing the air space above afghanistan. this process has left even more questions and concerns regarding the u. s. strategy and plans for the region down couple survivors of the airport black claim. they actually saw american troops shooting as civilians. in the aftermath of the explosion are to senior course, euro gas vs has more from the ground. this is the 2nd violent escalation within the past 24 hours. they start around, we've heard that up to 5 rockets have been launched at the port of capital where the united states and suburb its allies. its remaining allies are still conducting their evacuation for, according to reports, from what we've heard a truck, a pickup truck with a good healed launcher 5. these missiles some distance away from cavil airport. the rockets then was shot down by

the pentagon has announced the completion of military vaccination of from the country need to 20 your mission there. last, see? 17 lifted off from hammond cars. international airport on august 30th this afternoon at 3 29 pm east coast time. and the last manned aircraft is now clearing the air space above afghanistan. this process has left even more questions and concerns regarding the u. s. strategy and plans for the region. now, couple survivors of the airport blast claim. they actually saw american troops shooting as civilians. in the aftermath of the explosion are to senior course. you're a gas has more from the ground. this is the 2nd violent escalation within the past 24 hours. they start around, we've heard that up to 5 rockets have been lodge at the airport of cobble where the united states and suburb its allies. its remaining allies are still conducting their evacuation for, according to reports. for what we've had a truck, a pickup truck with a good heal launcher 5, these miss l. a. some distance away from capital airport. the rockets then was shot down by for the fed system.

pentagon, no plans to change afghan exit by august 31st. we're leaveing that dated by the sound of it. no change. you spoke to former vice president mike pence, what had he to say about afghanistan. >> i don't know what sound bite you will run. stuart: tell me what he said. >> thing strength we showed was clear message we would never allowed this to happen. affiliation with al qaeda, that is violation of the original agreement. we would have never left bagram airport flat-out. he knows the president. would have allowed our people, if something like this did happen to go out and bring our civilians home. think about what the president's already done with syria, the 59 strikes into syria when they violated the red line. think about the taking out of suleman nip. the message that was sent when we pulled this guy out of prison. the president did speak to him who is now technically the leader of afghanistan, when the president spoke to him directly, he had killed soleimani a few before. they knew the president meant what he said. he does not bel

what advice is the pentagon giving them? >> largely speaking we know we have an obligation to help these individuals and their families who helped us so much over the last 20 years. and we have been focused on this for quite some time. there is a process by which they can apply for these visas and the state department has opened up the umbrella for other p1 and p2 opportunities. so i am not an expert on that process, carla, but there is a process to follow and i would highly encourage if they aren't already in the system to get themselves into the system. and i understand if i think i understand the gist of your question can we move someone from somewhere else in the country into the airport and right now our focus is on the airport itself and making sure it stays safe and secure and that operations, air operations which have resumed can sustain themselves going forward. there is an awful lot that has to be done in that. so again, sacred obligation we take seriously. there is a process and i would highly encourage them if th

also an afghan, a stan pentagon, press secretary john kirby said last thing the u. s. wants to do is cause civilian casualties. make no mistake. no military on the face of the earth works harder to avoid civilian casualties than united states military. and nobody wants to see innocent life taken. we take it very, very seriously. if we have, you know, verifiable information that we did in fact take innocent life here, then, then we will, we'll be transparent about that to. nobody wants to see that happen. but you know, what else we didn't want to see happen. we didn't want to see happen, what we believe to be a very real, a very specific and a very imminent threat to the how many cars international airport and to our troops operating at that airport as well as civilians around it and in it. but kirby and other pentagon officials were tight lipped about security details related to the drug strikes and also the ongoing evacuation efforts. specifically, if there are any additional ices k targets that may be in the works. instead, a lot of us forces is ongoing evacuation

the pentagon is all locked down, offer a shooting at a bus platform on the defense department grounds. several people are reportedly injured including an officer. the view and torture replica raises the alarm as an officer help a woman to the ground triggering an urgent police probe. and censorship and an attack on freedom of speech is the reaction to youtube banning sky. you don't really have really violating the platforms, coded policies, the channel, low planes, it oh, the question. wearing masks and locked down policies. ah, allow live for moscow. this is our t international law calling bray with the world news for you. this our number of breaking news events to tell you about to 1st in the united states, this is the see live outside the pentagon right now. the facility currently on lock down after a shooting at its transit center on a bus platform, steps away from where the main building is. multiple gunshot said to have been fired and reports yet to be verified, claim that several people, including a police officer, have been injured. subway trains to that center have also been

what else are you hearing from the pentagon? the us basset, the cabal highs, confirm just in the last few minutes before american marines have been killed and 3 others have been injured in the bombing at capital airport. interestingly enough, 24 hours ago, the troops that were guarding the gates and processing people through 4 flights to leave from afghanistan were given advice on what to look for. if there was a suspected suicide bomber. that is because there was a high security allowed, they had credible evidence that there was going to be an attack. and so the troops were warned, this is what you need to look for. this is what you need to keep an eye on. i'm still, even after that warning, they were processing people through those gates, risking their own lives to make sure that these people could get out of the country . the bomb blast came at the gate. it was a complex attack. according to the pentagon, not just because there was one bomb blast, the ivy gate, as people moved away from the area towards barton's hotel, where

the white house, the state department, the pentagon, the u. s. embassy incorporated all been wanting us citizen to stay away from the airport, where the people have listened to them. is another thing that because we've seen how desperate people have been to try and get out via carl international, wasn't this just a miserable target for islamic state? terrorists, we've seen the pictures of people crammed in the push them against the barriers, despite being told to stay away, the people weren't really listening. presumably the, the, is on the state. so this isn't a missile target. absolutely, i mean, one of the, the criticisms that were undoubtedly you'll be put forward in any future in investigation or, you know, committee look at this operation will be the inevitability of this, this kind of attack that, you know, the united states created the conditions for this very incident in the manner in which this operation unfolded. so yeah, and we need to realize that just because, you know, the one bomb went off. there's real potential for additional

the pentagon briefing underway. the pentagon saying that there was no second explosion in kabul on thursday despite an initial contrary report. joining is now is annmarie hordern. this is 24 hours after the very chaotic thursday. what are we learning? anne-marie: very chaotic where we thought there was going to be, there were two terror attacks, a suicide bomber outside the at the gate where the u.s. military is letting people in and as well as a nearby hotel that is about a mile away that many people that visit afghanistan in kabul would stay at. now we are hearing that there is actually only one exposure from the pentagon. the pentagon saying that it is a very dramatic event. sometimes ports can get misrepresented. we know that there was only one suicide bomber and that was at the abbey gate. we are learning that within the last 24 hours, they were able to evacuate another 300 americans, bringing the total to a little bit more than 5000. that breathing is ongoing and will continue to get updates from the pentagon.

victor, alisyn. >> barbara starr for us at the pentagon. thank you very much. >>> president biden says he always knew some chaos was inevitable despite previously vowing an orderly exit from afghanistan. now, there is this new interview and he says he insisted there is nothing he would change about the american withdrawal. watch a portion of it. >> was the intelligence wrong or did you down play it? >> there was no consensus. the intelligence community did not say back in june or july that, in fact, this was going to collapse like it did. >> you don't think this could have been handled, this actually could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes? >> no. >> cnn's jeff zeleny is in washington for us. what did he go on to say there, jeff? does he think there have been no mistakes made? >> reporter: alisyn, of course president biden has been defiant and defensive all along, largely trying to keep the focus on the overall strategy of withdrawing american troops. what is left, of course, is the chaos we are seeing unfold to get to that s

john kirby was his spokesperson at the pentagon for a while, to. that was before mr. kirby went on to become spokes for the secretary of state, when john kerry was secretary of state, under president obama. he has had these very high visibility jobs at the pentagon, at the state department, he is also a rear admiral in the united states navy. john kirby served in the navy as the public affairs officer for the blue angels, he served as the editor in chief of the navy's magazine, he served as chief spokesperson for the department of the navy. these aides, he is back at the department of defense, reprising his role as pentagon press secretary. this time of the biden ministration for the defense department that has now led by defense secretary lloyd austin. john kirby has been a very very high profile person in washington for a long time. right now, he has one of the most difficult and scrutinize jobs in washington, because right now, daily, sometimes multiple times per day, he is briefing the defense department press corps, which is not a bunch of pushover's, briefing th

we're going to go to the pentagon and the state department. a lot of questions left unanswered and according to some of our reporting were answered incorrectly, not based in fact. so we hope there's another go-round here in just a moment and we'll get some answers from the administration. we have 17 minutes of q&a with president biden. so that will be extended with other members of the administration. we'll go live. here's what president biden had to say about his decision to fully withdraw our troops from afghanistan. >> what interest to we have in afghanistan at this point with al-quaida gone? we went to afghanistan for the expressed purpose of getting rid of al-quaida in afghanistan as well as getting osama bin laden. we did. >> so that seems like the perfect jumps off point to bring in senator lindsey graham who has been to afghanistan many times as a member of the armed services committee and serviced as an air force reserve colonel. good to have you with us today, sir. i thought that was an astonishing comment in many ways in terms of th

is that has been drawn up by the pentagon, or does he stick to his original deadline? he had been holding firm and that august 31st deadline because you said with each additional day into september that american so there, there is increased risk risk that we've seen play out. sadly with the results being at least for americans killed. and that number potentially could climb higher, indeed can be health that there was all the latest from the whitehouse. thank you. kimberly. well, let's now move over to new york and speak to mike hannah, he's at the united nations 4th. mike, i believe that the secretary general is now trying to organize an emergency meeting when i'm going to stop, what do we know about that? well, there's a number of things happening at the moment. obviously discussions going on among diplomats there was a previously shed. jo, security council meeting, which is due to begin and just and, and all that fun and unrelated issue, the issue of utopia and to gray. what we do understand at this point is that the secretary general has convened a meeting of the 5

the pentagon says the u.s. drone strike killed two isis-k what they call planners and facilitators, and wounded one other isis-k member. how far do you think it goes degrading the threat from the terror group? >> i applaud the president for taking firm, decisive action to take out those members that killed our troops. it is a first step. we need to see what more needs to be done. anyone contemplating arming our troops, harming this country should be very clear that congress will overwhelmingly support this president in taking retaliatory action that's just. i'm glad the president has done this. >> the pentagon says threats at the kabul airport are active. should the biden administration, congressman, speed up withdrawal? it is supposed to be completed by tuesday to avoid further casualties. in other words, just get out of there as quickly as possible? >> wolf, i think this is why he is sticking to the august 31st deadline. takes a few days to remove troops swiftly. my understanding is the focus is on getting ou

the pentagon reported a gunfire from there. the troops seemed to show a great deal of discipline in not spraying the crowd and not firing back. and equally the taliban use of gunshots to drive people back. we've seen recent video of that, equally a problem. but equally not seeming to send up the level of already high tensions. extraordinary. >> yeah. sam, appreciate it. barbara star is at the pentagon where a news conference wrapped up a short time ago. talk about what we learned about the u.s. mission in afghanistan this morning. >> reporter: the pentagon taking great pains to say that the threat from isis-k does continue. that it is serious. that they are looking at it around the clock and trying to be ready if, in fact, there are more attacks. now, they are pressing for additional force protection measures at the airport, and in no small part, pressing the taliban to push the perimeter back to close roads. they're having some success with that but not giving us specifics about what the taliban agreed to. the question is why

-- i was in the pentagon. i'm sorry -- i hope we didn't do our job. we had the experts -- we did do our job. we had the experts we needed to do it. we provided a report, we talked through multiple committees on the senate and the house side multiple times. the recommendations got great input from both house and senate committees that are responsible for resourcing and policy. host: it strikes me that there are similarities between your role in overseeing the task force and the one on january 6. to break down civil authority and in both cases there was a certain amount of civil unrest. guest: well, yes. the ability to pull together all of the assets to complete the effectuation -- evacuation insecure the collaboration and the states of louisiana and mississippi in collaboration with local governments. that experience did help and it doing the capitol review to come up with what the fixes are. many of the fixes we put in were regulations from the people we were talking to. we didn't go make stuff up. everything

two separate pentagon briefings already today. on everything from helicopter exfiltrations of afghan evacuees to evacuation flights and their numbers to babies be born onboard those evacuation flights. he's done a lot of work already today, but i still have more questions and he's been kind enough to join us tonight to answer them. admiral kirby, thank you so much. i know it's been a long couple weeks. even a long day today. >> my pleasure, rachel. thank you. >> let me start by asking you not about the most important thing, but something my interest was very piqued by at the second pentagon briefing in which we learned there wasn't just one baby born on one of these flights, one of these evacuation flights this weekend at ramstein in germany, but the general who you were briefing with, actually said there's been three babies born in these circumstances. >> yeah, that's right. he surprised everybody, including me, on that. this is general steve lyons, the commander of u.s. transportation command. we wanted him to come in and talk t