dan hoffman with insight into the potential terrorist attack. griff jenkins live at the white house with new reporting coming in. reporter: good morning. the deadly debacle in kabul continues department of state saying to every american left in country, get away, stay away from the airport. the president issuing a warning in a statement, saying the situation on the ground continues to be dangerous and threat of terrorist attacks on the airport is high. our commanders inform me a attack is highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. pentagon spokesman john kirby echoing that. watch. the threats are real, dynamic and we re monitoring them real time. is it as serious as yesterday. it is deadly threat.
taliban, that they re coordinated, that they re tied at the hip. many experts say that last night on judge jeanine s show. lindsey graham says the taliban is slow walking clearing people to go, to these points and that he believes that they re doing that on purpose to hold them hostage. so my question to you, clearly kabul airport is dangerous, in control by these terrorists. is there any other way for the americans to escape this country, perhaps another region, perhaps by foot or some sort of network through the region held by the resistance fighters? look, the airport has been a kill zone. that is how isis would regard it. it has been that way over a week now. as far as getting out with other means, keep in mind that our american citizens and our afghan partners are being hunted down not just by the taliban which is seeking revenge but by isis as well as al qaeda.
dan, i m focusing in on the language, a specific credit threat and we have tight time frame, 24 to 36 hours give me a time frame what that language means? it definitely means there is a threat out there, an acute threat. remember we ve been tracking these threats sometime. it is possible that isis fighters conducting pre-attack surveillance of the airport. they have been doing that on foot for quite sometime. we may have gotten chatter from some of the isis operatives. what i emphasize. will: i ve been in this position many times in the war zone, there are three things you want to do when you collect this sort of intelligence even if the is not 100% accurate or even not as detailed as you like. you like to get off the x. we know that is not possible. we can t leave the airport. secondly, we re defending at the
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