one in a very narrow street up towards the abbey gate. there is a canal and then there is a street and then a long wall of blast walls, which if the blast was on the road, in all probability it might have been, but either way they protect what is on the the other side of it and magnify the blast closer in so the level of casualties likely to be very high and then a second blast near the baron hotel which is the british base of their operations and one of the main routes for refugees and particularly afghans and large numbers of foreigners who get out. so clearly a carefully recognizance target. isis-k members were picksed up by the taliban filming potential targets around kabul. so this is well trailed. but i think the ultimate failure here in terms of security is down to the taliban because they've been screening people coming to the airport. preventing ordinary afghans from escaping and not able to stop the attackers according to the united nations i spoke to in kabul there is concern among the united nations security there that there i

they were not at abbey gate. they were at a different gate called southwest gate and they heard the blast go off and felt it. they decided to go home. it is not worth it to them anymore. my friend's brother had been waiting at home for days for communication from the embassy, but when it became more and more clear that the window of opportunity was closing, this family made the decision to take the wife and the four young kids, we are talking about a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old. and abbey gate was discussed among the family, especially because this is the gate that is more likely that you might be plucked out of the crowd by u.s. military. they knew the risk and knew exactly what the embaa scioscia was alerting everyone. there might be a bombing, a suicide bombing. listen to why this decision was so desperate for them. >> this was basically a suicide mission for me and my family. we will take this chance and hopefully, we will not be targeted, you know. so, it was like it was living or die and that's the decision

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we were at abbey gate midday yesterday. this is the real front line here, where american soldiers and marines, din low mats and other troops risked their own lives to help the most vulnerable. these are the final steps that lead to the gate, the perimeter wall guarded by marines, trying to separate friend from foe. >> abbey gate, follow the water. >> reporter: the last stop is the guard tower, right opposite today's blast site. inside, troops keeping watch on the crowds below. we saw one man wave his blue u.s. passport and the troops responded immediately. >> i can help you get in! abbey gate. >> you is have to wait over there. >> reporter: after the tower, it is a handful of steps out into the crowds. through the gates to the ditch that separates thousands of people from their hopes of getting inside the airport to freedom. these are just devastating, heartbreaking scenes here. these people down here are stood in sewage water up to their knees and this is what i've been saying. this is the difference potentially between th

officials are generally at the abbey gate. were any of the injured or killed military or civilians who were working that gate? the gates have been closed in recent hours because of the ongoing security threat that really stepped up in the last 12 to 24 hours. we're trying to figure out if anyone was hurt on killed. >> this splinter group of isis, worn enemies of the taliban, what more can you tell us about this particular terror group isis-k. >> well, craig, as you mentioned their a splinter group of isis. when isis made all of those gains in iraq and syria, they want widen their footprint. so they move into afghanistan around 2014-2015. and immediately got into a fight with the taliban. it was about 2017 and basically made significant investments. but the numbers still remained in afghanistan. there is about 200 or 300 of them. several dozen of them may have been in the prisons that were sort of like the doors flung open when kabul fell, and they're a very hardened bunch of people. they're very extreme. they have an extremely

there was a blast close to the abbey gate. that's one of the southern perimeter points of access for evacuees going into kabul international airport. then the other blast was close to the baron hotel. that has been up until extremely recently the british base of operations with the air assault brigade. also evacuees coming into the baron and moved through the abbey gate and into kabul international airport. the road at that point is bounded on both sides by blast walls which will concentrate any kind of the blast upwards and up and down the road. it's a way of accelerating or magnifying the capacity of any explosive devices to have it go off in a relatively confined space. but particularly inside walls that are designed to reflect back any kind of a blast. so the scenes we've seen and we've had to blur the videos. unfortunately i had to watch the raw versions. they are of carnage. there are reports from the pentagon of a number of american casualties. we don't know how many. we don't know what condition they're in. and as you

explosion outside abbey gate. last night lucas reports there were 5,000 afghans and potentially some americans outside that same gate. the explosion unclear how big comes hours after the state department warned americans outside to quote leave immediately due to the increasing terrorist threat. also lucas reports the secretary of state blinken said yesterday there was a very real possibility of an attack. that's in the pentagon. we should get a briefing in 35 minutes. back to doha for trey yingst. what have you heard? >> good morning. we're following this breaking news out of kabul right now. reports of an explosion outside of the abbey gate, one of the main three gates on the ground there at the airport in kabul. remember there were thousands of people lining up over the past several days trying to get out of the country not just afghan civilians but also foreign nationals including american and british citizens. isis-k a small organization in eastern afghanistan. this is an offshoot of the islamic state that sta

there's the abbey gate. then there's a stretch of road bounded by blast walls and then there's an entrance into the baron which historically have been secure, almost bounded within the secure perimeter of the main airport. that's why the british used it as a forward operating base as part of their efforts to get evacuees through. it was easier, slightly easier to get for afghans to the baron gates, sometimes for foreign nationals. they even had a secret entrance being used to exfiltrate a lot of foreign nationals with the help of british special forces around the back. it was a central part of the evacuation. it was a central part of the british parachute regiment, air assault brigade there in force. i saw them in the airport yesterday. the british numbers in the airport going up. that indicated they were winding down their operations there. there's been no reports of british casualties. that's striking. there's a gap. you go from one gate to the other through a sort of area of no man's land, in all project,

. >> abbey gate! >> reporter: those in the guard tower keeping watch on the crowds below, including one man waving his blue u.s. passport. >> i can help you get in, you'll have to wait over there! >> these are devastating, heartbreaking scenes here. these people down here have stood in sewage water up to this knees, and this is what i've been saying, this is the difference potentially between the life-saving work that's been carried out by the military here and potentially death by the taliban. less than five yards. >> reporter: the taliban today condemning the attack. tonight with as many as 1,000 americans still in afghanistan, it's a race against time as the august 31st deadline for american forces to withdraw just days away. >> i think you'll see jihadists through afghanistan right now who want to be there for the 20th anniversary of the attack, september 11th. it is not you could say, obviously, in the united states' interests in the region and overall pattern of terrorist efforts. >> reporter: d

marines was over at the abbey gate. there has been a u.s. military presence at that gate for the past week or so. they've been helping to allow -- to keep the crowds back to a certain extent and also to allow people to come through that gate, primarily, third country nationals and afghans. there's also been a consular presence at that gate at times to help the u.s. marines know -- so they know who they can let through or not. the second explosion at the baron hotel which as richard was explaining is very close by. you can walk it, it's such a close distance. it's a little unclear still who -- how many people may have been around at that explosion location. at the abbey gate there have been crowds outside of these gates for the past week or so at times and large and potentially unruly crowds and that's presenting a concern for u.s. officials and they're worried about a threat from isis-k, which is the isis affiliate there in afghanistan. they had specific intelligence that isis was trying to target some of those gates and target americans who

one taking place near the abbey gate and one near the barron gate. two of the main entrances to the airport in kabul where u.s. forces helped to set a perimeter to help with the flow of evacuees onto the airfield. this was likely, according to reports, an attack conducted by isis-k. a group that both british and american intelligence officials were warning about over the past several days. a group that could launch attacks in the region. a very small organization. the offshoot of the islamic state that started around 2014. and the northern province in afghanistan is where they're based. they are operating across northern and eastern afghanistan. again this explosion though report evidence outside of abbey gate reportedly killing a number of people and injuring dozens more. we don't want to get into the numbers now. a lot of information coming out from the ground but this airfield was the main place of evacuation and it really sets a big question right now what does the biden administration do with the thousands of u.s. troops still there? and what do

there were marines at the abbey gate. they were there for several days checking the people who came through the gate to get on the planes. there were times u.s. consular officials to make sure they were getting the right people through that gate. what we also know is that security has been a concern, and add to that the abbey gate, and it is well known to the viewers at this point. that is the gate we saw that a baby was lifted over a u.s. marine grabbing the baby up and took him in for medical treatment. it is also the gate that is the site of large crowds where people are desperately trying to get through the gate and on to the evacuation flights. because of the large crowds, the u.s. is worried about the security there and not among the evacuees, but the possibility of some nefarious element such as isis-k could infiltrate the crowds and carry out an attack. as you mentioned, it is unlikely that isis-k was behind the attacks. there is no firm attribution, but the threats that the u.s. was tracking were exactly what we

first of all, there was the bomb near abbey gate, and obviously as people moved away from that area, there was a 2nd bomb at nearby bar. and so tell where some americans had gathered but were told what evacuated just before that 2nd bomb went off. so that may have stopped the death toll of americans. if there is any being much greater. what we can confirm from the pentagon is that there have been a number of american casualties. 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 prese

here are some new images of british troops securing the scene at that very abbey gate and the nearby hotel where the blast happened tonight president biden is making a direct threat to isis-k and putting that group on notice that his commanders are drawing up plans to strike back. >> to those that carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes america harm, know this: we will not forgive. we will not forget we will hunt you down and make you pay. >> just 14 hours before those explosions, the u.s. embassy in kabul warned americans, leave the abbey gate immediately that gate and others at the airport because of a known security threat. this satellite image from this week shows the massive crowds of afghans that have been gathering at that abbey gate and here's a photo of u.s. and british troops at the abbey gate just yesterday pentagon officials say they have been relying on taliban check points to do the first screening and searching of people before they get to the abbey gate and come face to face with more screeners in the presence of u.s. troops. the u.s. general overseeing

frankly, most bets were on the abbey gate because it is the most magnetic in many ways to evacuees. >> kylie atwood at the state department, we have heard for several days as sam just referenced there the threats were acute and real and persisted. what do we know now about responsibility, who is responsible for what happened today? >> yeah, well, what we have learned is that u.s. officials in the early thinking here believed that isis-k is behind this attack, but it is going to take some time for them to say that a bit more firmly, to understand who exactly in isis-k is to blame. but from the perspective of the state department here, they also have a number of diplomats on the ground there. we know that the u.s. embassy in kabul was evacuated about ten days ago, but they have some diplomats on the ground doing consular services, essentially processing these afghans getting on these evacuation flights. we are still waiting for an accounting of the u.s. diplomats. presumably they were further in on the compound of the airport, not on the outskirts where these explosions happened, but th

p. ls the group dominated national politics before abbey came to power. by the end of november, the government had announced its forces had taken control of the grice, regional capital, mckelly. but conflict took a stunning turn in june when the 2 grey and forces took back, michaela and government soldiers withdrew. since then, the rebels have pressed into a far region in the east and i'm hot in the south displacing more than 250000 people. a samuel a get a true is an independent journalist then joins us via skype now from the p o p. and capital out of thanks very much for being with us. let me ask you, 1st of all, your reaction to this announcement by the prime minister's office, essentially rallying or all ethiopians who are able to, to join the fight against the t gray forces. how significant is that in the general scheme of things? it's a 2 page statement he released on his social media page including twitter, choosing the t p level. once again being a terrorist group that's colliding with enemies, he called them internal and external. without being s

the good dominated national politics before abbey came to power. by the end of november, the government had announced its forces had taken control of t guys regional capital mckelly. but conflict took a stunning turn in june. when the 2 grind forces look took back, the mckelly and government soldiers withdrew. since then, the rebels oppressed into a far region in the east and harder in the south, displacing more than 250000 people. samuel get the true is an independent journalist in ethiopia. he says, prime minister abbey is under pressure to do more to resolve the conflict. it said to pay just teeth when he released on his social media page, including twitter, choosing the t p level. once again, being a terrorist that's colliding with enemies, he called them internal and external. without being specific. he said this fight has nothing to do with the people to guy, but has everything to do with p p i left. so this comes as p p and that says no just fighting within its own borders, but also going as far as capturing the historic city of law, which w

we found out later he was not at abbey gate. he went to the southwest gate, thankfully not anywhere close to where this bomb went off. he is okay, his family is okay but i want to emphasize to these viewers at home, these families are playing a deadly game of chess with their lives. this is russian roulette for them. on one hand they're sitting at home, wondering what's going to happen, will the taliban come find them? these are people fought with the u.s. military. they were translateors. they trained the afghan military. but on the other hand they should think just go for it? there are great risks. we find out this morning those risks came into fruition. it is just incredibly tough for these families. now it appears that they're stuck you know, they're on their way back to the apartment. they don't have a backup plan, neil. neil: you know ashiah, you know the region so well, i'm wondering when i hear these latest reports about this isis-k splinter group, hundreds of these guerrillas, whatever you want to call them, circling th

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state department officials were killed in the attack at abbey gate. but what we -- what is very clear from the general, the mission continues. they will continue evacuations. they ramped up security. this was -- it's clear that somehow the bomber got past the so-called taliban security that was on the outer perimeter. they're going to try to push the crowds back further. but you have overwatch. general mckenzie was clear that they have ac-130 gun ships, they have ah-64 apache helicopters and a lot of isr over that airport. there will be i imagine a number of ways in which the u.s. military tries to indicate that any further attackers may be better beware before approaching the airport. general mckenzie said there's active threat streams suggesting that the terrorist groups that attacked today are trying to get a car bomb or a truck bomb closer to the airport. they're asking the taliban to close certain roads, close more roads. they're actively aware that there could be further attacks with the u.s. on the ground there. back to you. >> terrible day. th

so the abbey road entrance to, to the airport. we also know, according to the pentagon, last night to pension, was supposed to say that the us and the chat about anal cooperating, sharing information. so it's going to be interesting to see what kind of effect that potentially has as well. and also bear in mind that in the, in the run up to these attacks again, the charlotte bomb told us that they called in thousands of charlie bonds forces from the provincial areas. because as if say they were expecting such an attack, it's going to be as a say, fascinating to see whether in fact any kind of additional security measures. and of course, the fear that these attacks have generated are going to keep the numbers of people away from that area around the airport. this is certainly not the 1st attack by isolate. and i've got a son charles, how big a threat is the group in the country? well, experts will tell you that they are a very serious threat and a threat that has grown, ironically in the last few months. just keep in mind that as th

it is mr. abbey's 1st business abroad since the government launched a military operation in the northern region of to grow. the u. s. has been pushing the prime minister to and talks with the to grow and rebels. let's go live now to ankara and speak to wrestle, said russell, who gets wat from this relationship? well, 2 leaders have their hands full here, one of them as badly enough to get a war and the other one a space and difficulties to handle the natural disasters in the country. so, but the meeting between the 280, that is just over there shortly. they will have a process will get more detail, but as of now, the, i'll be back in his countries losing his popularity, particularly off there, the, the cancellation of the, the election in 2020, and then the civil war in the region. so give, being more and more isolated, particularly the fact that they're coming from the western companies. like if you asked the, the u. k. germany and also the regional active like saudi arabia and really also with reuben their, their support from abbey, i'm at. and now the company is also suffering big eco

this was what they refer to as the search lane at abbey gate. this may explain why quite such 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 for. that will be part of that intelligence picture how that individual got on the list. we have heard instances of people simply through ingenuity or contact managing to find their way on. there's another interesting thing that stood out to me there about how this attack unfolded we have this blast. it seems like it may have been the first blast. it occurred at th

several are being treated for injuries. 0ne happened at abbey gate on the other was close to baron hotel, it had been used by some western nations as a staging point for evacuation since the airlift began. barbara plett usher is in washington. i'm expecting to hearfrom i'm expecting to hear from the white house shortly? the i'm expecting to hear from the white house shortly?— house shortly? the briefing room does seem _ house shortly? the briefing room does seem to _ house shortly? the briefing room does seem to be _ house shortly? the briefing room does seem to be prepared - house shortly? the briefing room does seem to be prepared to - house shortly? the briefing room| does seem to be prepared to have somebody make a statement, but it has been very confusing here this morning because a number of briefings have been cancelled in the wake of what has happened as the administration has tried to get across what exactly is going on. it looks as though there is preparation for a statement but we don't actually know when that will happen and who it is that will speak. there is some speculat

the abbey gate is here, the baron hotel is a stone's thrown away. this has been used to try to get out many westerners. americans, europeans, brits, and afghans as well. one of the reasons, as you mentioned the military side, this is the military side over here. here's the civilian side. remember the pictures a few days ago of people storming the tarmac? that was happening out here. and that sort of forced the military to take a greater hand over here. but in the end, yeah, this is one of the entry points where they have tried to open it according to the pentagon, rush a few people through, and then close it up again. and they believe that is one of the moments when this blast went off. very interesting to hear what matthew said about somebody being close to the blast because we don't have a sense yet of how big this was. did it reach out and get a whole lot of people over a longer distance or just that everyone was packed that tightly together, including these american troops. >> is there any way really though to keep this from happening again if t

the abbey gate is here, the baron hotel is a stone's thrown away. this has been used to try to get out many westerners. americans, europeans, brits, and afghans as well. one of the reasons, as you mentioned the military side, this is the military side over here. here's the civilian side. remember the pictures a few days ago of people storming the tarmac? that was happening out here. and that sort of forced the military to take a greater hand over here. but in the end, yeah, this is one of the entry points where they have tried to open it according to the pentagon, rush a few people through, and then close it up again. and they believe that is one of the moments when this blast went off. very interesting to hear what matthew said about somebody being close to the blast because we don't have a sense yet of how big this was. did it reach out and get a whole lot of people over a longer distance or just that everyone was packed that tightly together, including these american troops. >> is there any way really though to keep this from happening again if t

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he explained what happened outside abbey gate today. he confirmed the death toll, that 12 u.s. service members, most marines, one navy medic and 15 others were wounded in this suicide bombing attack. he explained the bomber got close to abbey gate, even possibly close enough for the marines to be patting the bomber down. they don't know the size of the blast but clearly to take out so many people with one blast, this was a sizable bomb. it's also clear there was a security failure. what we learned is that the u.s. has been relying on the taliban for their checkpoints and their screenings, if you will, of those coming toward the airport. that is really a very tough visual to imagine. the taliban patting down every person and checking everyone coming to the airport. that is the arrangement that they've made to have some semblance of security. clearly this bomber got through. general mckenzie was asked whether there was any possibility that the taliban were involved. here's what he said. >> you still trust the taliban and is it possible that they let this happen? >> as to whether

tell us about the abbey gate and who has been going through there. >> the abbey gate this location further off from the main entrance, this is where the first blast happened, second at the baron hotel. very short distance away. the hotel was the site of a lot of british evacuations, europeans coming through there but a lot of americans and afghans, too, had been shuttling through this area. when they get here the pentagon was talking about it yesterday, ultimately as close as everyone is, then they get to this point, afghan people coming this way. this is all along that area where at some point they actually have to clear people up close and bring them through. that is clearly what we're -- the fear is the pentagon that's where the terrorists would want to exploit their close contact with u.s. troops as people try to go through. at the abbey gate, that's where the attack happened. >> so it was clearly a vulnerability. does it remain one? >> it remains one as long as you continue to have this crush of people trying to come through that area. if you could have some way that you could diminis

they took this photo outside the abbey gate. the abbey gate is where the bomb went off today that. just must be chilling today to think about that. >> yeah. the girl called me and was crying and i started crying, too, because a lot of people died and the soldier i called. he said people are running and they are telling me there are pieces of people everywhere so my family when they went there, i had them inside, tell them we'll let them. in the picture of them and looking at that crowd. my dad served. he was a senior overs. he served with the u.s. forces and afghan forces and my brother was a colonel and my sister was an officer and my family worked really hard supporting the u.s. government and they are waiting on those gates. i look at my nephews and nieces and the pictures of them sleeping in the dirt. it really leads me to think this is not what we deserve. look, hundreds of sivs, they are calling me. can you help us, and i said i cannot. i can only get u.s. citizen green card because from my back channel that's how we do it right now this. should not have happened. all these g

the abbey gate and a hotel by the abbey gate. >> and then we also heard about gunfire as well. >> so they are still working through that situation. we know that a lot of afghans have already been evacuated out of that country. a lot of them heading to destinations unknown at this point. but a good number of them are expected to come here to the bay area and the bay area happens to be home to the largest afghan population in the u.s.. >> and there's a workshop at the nor islamic cultural community center in concord this weekend. if you would like to help coordinate what's needed for all of the refugees that wind up here in the bay area. organizers are going to put together some care packages and they say it's still unclear. we don't know how many refugees are coming and we don't even know when they'll arrive. >> to but once these immigrants he's refused come for a what could be didn't needs. they're only given a few hours leave the country. they couldn't bring anything with thing of the do not bring so that's why we need to be prepared to help. >> yeah. the shirts on their back. that'

we tried to move closer towards the abbey gate. we heard another explosion there with more heavy gun fly. there was hundreds of people running towards us and there was heavy smoke in the air. we had the sirens coming from the pool and it held on fine to god that southgate were where we had arrived. were pushing everyone back quite frantically. they were panic themselves. a few ambulances, george passed us and, and we've stayed there for about half an hour, and he begun fi continued throughout. we've tried to talk to us military forces over this time, but they are keeping quite quiet about the operations. and i was just on the earlier this week at this exact location at abbey gate. and the tele bonded you film around the airport perimeter. so i use my phone to so me and catch some of what was happening, the one hundreds of people around at the gates. this was just a couple of days ago. they would tell a bon checkpoints around there. and then there's a, there's a post with 3 americans in it at that time. that was overlooking the scen

he says, prime minister abbey is under pressure to do more to resolve the conflict. it said to pay just paid when he released on his social media page, including twitter. choosing the t p level, once again being a terrorist that's colliding with enemies, he called them internal and external. without being specific. he said this fight has nothing to do with the people up to great, but has everything to do as t p i left. so this comes as p p and that says no just in fighting within its own borders, but also going as far as capturing the heads up loudly by which was a significant achievement to them. and the children government was really under pressure to you know, the fighting started in november. the prime minister said is going to be short lived. the mission is going to be accomplished faster than expected. but this is pushing to the 1st year, which is in november a year since this conflict begun november 3rd to be specific. thousands of people have enough faith. now the conflict is not just within the region. it's in the far as you mentioned, 250000 people are bein

one blast happened close to the airport's abbey gate, and the other close to the nearby baron hotel. the hotel had been used by some western nations as a staging point for evacuations since the airlift began. let me bring you the latest line from the british prime minister us confirmed in a statement that us and afghan civilians had died in the attack is at the airport. he confirmed the uk will continue with the evacuation programme according to the uk's timetable and boris johnson condemned the attack as despicable, and he said we are in the final stages of the evacuation. there are the initial comments when the british prime minister boris johnson. here's our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams. it is the attack everyone feared, smoke and gunfire on the edge of the airport. two explosions in rapid succession in an area packed with civilians. shock and panic is injured orferried to hospital, kabul is used to atrocities, but this is the first of its kind since the city fell, targeting the very people most desperate to leave. translation:— people most desperate to leave. translatio

c the abbey gate entrance to the home id cards. i international airport there. cobble and also the baron hotel, which is a couple 100 meters, basically across the street from the airport, adding that it was a quote unquote complex attack. and as you were mentioning, were also hearing that isis k, which is basically splinter group of isis isis, of the course on may at this point be responsible though that is not confirmed. this is a very fluid situation. as we continue to get updates about the number of dead, the number of injured absolutely a catastrophic and her epic situation. we're also hearing. likewise, you reported that as many as 5 us marines may have been among those injured possibly other americans as well. we're not hearing of any fatalities, but again, the numbers are fluid. again, as those numbers, the scores of people dead and injured africans, men, women, perfectly children continue to come in. we also know that president biden has postponed his meeting with israeli prime minister natalie bennett, that was supposed to

from classified calls with top pentagon officials confirming their knowledge of an imminent threat at abbey gate. but they still still decide to keep it open. questions and calls for accountability are growing even louder, especially from republicans. but democrats as well are concerned right now about losing support from their own base over the recent handling of the troop, pull out, and whether or not all should be out by the august 31st deadline. so to give us the $360.00 view we bring in to the credit strategist and army veteran ranger veteran robin to bureau and ed martin, president of phyllis as a shapely eagles. i'm sorry guys, i'm a little choked up right now. i. every time i've seen this has been hard to watch. we're all parents. we know that that is the absolute nightmare we can live through and rob it. i want to start off with you because i'm in the only reason why i think it's important that we talk about this because we need to avoid it in the future. 20 years, thousands of dying. we need to see these images over and over. remind us the next time that our elected officials, one

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that's the last video we have from abbey gate. this was many hours ago. it was in the middle of the night, but what you hear are those surging crowds going up to abbey gate. i'm going to let you hear that. and right there, they were throwing flash bangs to disperse that crowd. this was taken by jericho denman. he has been filling us in on what's going on inside. this is not right now. this is last night, but it gives you a sense of ab give gate and what was happening there overnight, and you can hear those crowds, and we do have reports from today that there was another a gunfight after what initial reporting is there was some kind of suicide bombing that could have been a gunfight. it could have been troops firing on people who were assisting that bomber or whatever else they could find out at the scene. i to know that i believe the u.s. and taliban have actually tried to cooperate ongoing after isis because of this threat, but again, it appears to have failed that they were not able to stop this kind of attack, and their reverberations from this will go

remaining presence in afghanistan which is the gates of the airport at abbey gate. there have been a consistent threat against frankly any target they can find to fit their agenda for years. so given the success devastating as it has been, it is likely that they will try something again if they have the opportunity. so this presents an enormous challenge for the u.s. evacuation operation moving forward. not least because of the desperate need to keep american service people safe there despite the extraordinary high risk activities fwhaecthey have undertaking literally standing face-to-face with huge afghan crowds on a daily basis, but because it also limits the number of afghans that could potentially get on the base. we learned yesterday from centcom a bit more detail about how the attack happened. general frank mckenzie was clear to point out that those doing searches like the searches that happened when the marines were killed by a man wearing a suicide vest require great proximity to individuals. it is unlikely i would suggest that somebody would be searched by

the abbey gate. general mckenzie warned that the pentagon yesterday that to expect more attacks. the m.o. of isis-k is more attacks. not just with suicide bombers, potentially rockets. it's very chaotic,a very high threat environment. the general was very clear. expect more attacks. that's why the pentagon and the u.s. military went on the offensive to kill some planners. we'll see if there's more targets. >> you're right. general mckenzie was open about that can't rule out what the taliban knew what passed the gate. there's no trust there. i'm hearing reports that the perimeter around the airport has been pushed out by the taliban. i don't know what that means. does that comport with what you've heard and is there any increase or decrease of confidence in the pentagon? we're almost entirely reliant on the taliban to prevent isis-k or other groups from having these strikes. any change in their posture of what they think is possible? >> the u.s. military leaders have been telling the taliban to push the perimeter back. it was sunday that president biden in an address to the nation

and uk troops outside of the abbey gate. along that runs a very long sewage duct which is, obviously, full of horrific material and a lot of individuals have been crowding around that and the razor wire, which is used at times to keep people back from the main gate there. it's unclear whether there were marines, at that point, outside of the gate or inside. the extent of the injuries which are, i have to say, extraordinary. the death toll, horrific. might suggest that this explosion occurred in a more densely packed area. there is what's called a search lane within the abbey gate area where people who had been picked out of the crowd are subsequently moved for processing and searching. we heard from general mackenzie, the cent-com chief, that the people who were -- the marines who were searching this individual were so close, they could feel each other's breath on them. so it does possibly suggest to me that he may have been within that inner search lane unless they had chosen to search some people outside of the airport. i

video taken right after that attack at abbey gate yesterday. what we learned at the briefing that is new, the pentagon corrected the record on the fact there was one suicide bomber yesterday, not two. originally during the day we had been reporting based on information we were receiving from pentagon officials that there were two suicide bombers, one jute side the baron hotel. the second bombing was misinformation from the ground. that happens in situations like this. you can understand. we also understand that at that abbey gate there were also gunmen who at least multiple isis gunmen who opened fire on u.s. forces and most likely on u.s. forces trying to come to the aid of those who were injured. >> harris: wow. jennifer griffin, great continued reporting. thank you very much. those images are so hard to see. well, they are calling this the worst day in president biden's presidency. >> it's the worst day of the biden presidency, nora, and the most deadly day for u.s. service members in afghanistan since august of 2011 when 30 americans lost t

the abbey gate, the east gate and the north gate. this one occurred at the abbey gate. the gates into the kabul airport have been constantly opening and closing. it really is depending on how many sivs and people that are inside the airport have to be processed. but, yeah, these are gates to perhaps a better life. and today it's just been an overwhelmingly tragic day not just for majors but the toll that the afghan people have taken today is a toll that they not different from any other day in afghanistan, frankly. i mean generation upon generation of afghans who always knew violence and they've grown up in it. >> yamiche, to jim's point as i said the temple went from chaos to smooth with remarkable speed. over 100,000 people have been able to start that new life because of this air bridge. and then this today. we knew the final pull out was going to be rough. tell us about life in the west wing today. >> well, this is really a devastating day for america. it's a devastating day of course for our service members, and it's a devastating day for president biden who starte

there were reasons behind it that they needed abbey gate. during the day, they believe that the taliban may have kept out a couple of the -- the taliban managed to twice push the surging crowd back from the gate, which they say was very helpful. they think that that may have -- the taliban may have helped to prevent a couple of other -- thwarted a couple other attacks. they're not completely sure on that yet. then the third one got through. at 5:48 p.m. he walked up to the abbey gate, defense officials say he was steely, a lot of times when you're about to do something like this, there's a lot of nervousness. you're very -- it's easier to identify. you can see somebody who looks obviously nervous. sometimes they detonate too fast. this person got up to the marines just before he was about to be frisked. they had not touched him yet, but he was about to be touched. he was about to be frisked. that's when he detonated, that's why the assumption is the casualty count was so high. >> you have to wonder about the depraved mind of someone who can

we know the attack occurred at the abbey gate. it is a place we have seen large crowds gathering over the last week or so. that has been the real security concern. you mention isis-k claimed responsibility for the attack. that was the specific attack that the u.s. was worried about happening, outside one of these gates. they were concerned about the abbey gate in particular because so many americans and westerners were transiting through that gate. the real concern was exactly what we saw, some sort of suicide attack that would target many afghans gathered outside there and the military working at the gate, chris. >> since you mentioned isis-k, let me play a little of what the president had to say specifically about that terror group. >> we've been made aware by our intelligence community that the isis-k, an archenemy of the taliban, people that were freed when both those prisons were opened, has been planning a complex set of attacks on united states personnel and others. >> and just to reiterate what you were saying, the congres