strike that the president said? i said next couple days. and they were shocked when i said that. because whenever you have intelligence that said there is about to be a strike, it usually means you have a lot more information than your giving out who is conducting it and where they are. so no surprise to you. but just before we learned about the strike against isis-k, general, the u.s. embassy in kabul put out this warning to u.s. citizens to leave the airport gates immediately. they did that warning yesterday or the day before and we had, you know, the explosion at the airport. do you think that s connected in any way? absolutely. i m going to guess, yes. i don t know for sure, don. i m not privy to secret intelligence anymore but that s the way it has always happened in my experience when i was in combat. you have one piece of intelligence. you track it down and start getting more and whether that was coming from signals intelligence, reading their mail, human intelligence on the
they were targeting a specific individual that this specific individual was killed and that no other civilians were harmed. this is a major test for the biden administration, don. as the u.s. troops leave the country, as intelligence capabilities are drawn down, the biden administration needs to be able to show it can continue to carry out these counterterrorism operations against the likes of isis-k and terrorist groups. you have an operation carried out by the u.s. military and a drone strike coming from over the horizon against this isis-k planner. we have been talking about isis-k for days. the likelihood of an imminent attack which then came to fruition yesterday outside the gate and that came following the warning from the u.s. embassy and foreign embassies warning citizens and afghans to leave those gates immediately and don,
tonight, we are seeing yet another warning like that from the u.s. embassy in kabul telling everyone to leave the vicinity of the airport to get away from not just that gate but scores of afghans, 13 american service members. one of the deadliest days during this 20-year war in afghanistan. the biden administration expecting more attacks by isis-k which we said tonight carried out the first strike against since that attack yesterday. we have a warning about possible terrorist attacks. the president vowed he would hunt these terrorists down. what are you hearing from your sources tonight, caitlyn? he s fulfilling that vow on
were, brave they are, willing they are to put their lives on the line to save other people, to save their freedom. we have to remain grateful every day of the year, every day of the week that we see them telling them how thankful we are. yeah. 20-year ryell mccollum who died 20 years old. very young men.l mccollum who died 20 years old. very young men.e mccollum who died 20 years old. very young men.e mccollum who died 20 years old. very young men. , is there is a threat to the airport. how dangerous is this situation now? can you put it into context for us? highly dangerous. we had the same warning a day or two ago now and saw the result of that. part of the challenge is going to be those americans and other afghans who have helped us who want to get out. president biden has made it clear he s not changing the date and if you don t change the date, that means the great
ground with them, overhead intelligence, the very different kinds of intelligence, i m sure the warning of the embassy tonight and that s what peaked my interest when i saw another warning, it told me they ve got the cross hairs on someone who is planning an attack and whereas they want to get people out of the embassy or out of the airport quickly. they re still drawing a beat on the individual that s planning or executing the target. i m glad they got one of the planners. well, i want to ask you because i posed a similar question to kaitlan collins earlier. you have to weigh things when you re planning to retaliate, how much more harm might it put people in who are there? how much might it take off isis-k and upset them and strike out again? so should the u.s. be worried at this point? i m sure the answer is yes but i want to talk about it, reprisal.