of people is not daily, but a weekly reality for so many afghans. and here we have this awful scene which appears to have injured u.s. personnel as well and will have an impact on quite how the next few days the closing chapter of america s longest war plays out but it is horrifying to have this incident so warned of come to fruition. absolutely. it is a true nightmare scenario. nick, we ve been showing as you ve been talking a map that is helpful of the lay out of the airport, and the airfield and what is a corridor, an alleyway that becomes a choke point into the airport as you re getting to a prime target for a terror attack. has been warned an warned over and over again in the last couple of days. it is awful to start thinking about precisely think being
0 works. if the hope is for them to be a reasonable partner for afghan allies, other members of former of the afghan government or the u.s., that one indication there. i m jim sciutto. thank you for being with us. that is flick robertson with me there. at this hour will start now. this is cnn breaking news. hello, i m kate bolduan. we re continuing this follow the major breaking news in afghanistan. there has been an explosion outside of kabul airport. officials also say this appears to be a suicide attack. let s be clear. this is still unfolding and there are many questions and things are still very fluid right now. we don t know who is behind the explosion. but the u.s. officials have been warning about a credible imminent and compelling, that is how they put it, threat from isis-k for days now. the u.s. embassy in kabul just 30 minutes ago issued a new warning to u.s. citizens near the airport. essentially the message is very clear. leave immediately. let s get to it. barbara
constantly tweeting or posting about gang bangers in the streets that are assaulted by police and demonizing the police left and right, now you have two heroes assassinated in the streets and not a single one of them and make any type of statement on behalf of them being heroes and defending our city. this is a direct assault. this is not going to end. not only is it a gang banger problem, it s a political problem in the city of chicago, it s about the party, not about the people. this is absolutely tragic. jillian: when i was watching the news conferences over the weekend i happened to catch it live when lori lightfoot was speaking about this and i had the thought in the back of my head, you know, there are so many elected officials in primarily democratic cities who have been really hard on police, who have been really tough on this whole defunding the police movement and wanting to see this come to fruition. certainly not in every city. but in a lot of them. and you just wonder what
with, we will probably see this come to fruition. a lower level fbi agent or a regular american citizen or another government employee committed this level of crimes, they would go to jail. tucker: that s exactly right, some are facing jail now because it s the starkest example of the double standard roger stone is facing life. you ve covered washington for a long time, is it in general true that the people in charge never face the consequence, that s what i m starting to conclude. i ve always tried to avoid conspiracy theories but when you step back and look at the people like john brennan, like jim comey who were in positions of unquestionable authority and the degree to which so many people in the media blithely wave away a lot of these accusations, it s terrifying to think these were the most powerful people in our country.
probably see this come to fruition, lower level fbi agent or a regular american citizen or another government employee committed this level of crimes, they would go to jail. tucker: that s exactly right and some are facing jail now as i often stand the show because it s the starkest example of the double standard. roger stone is facing life for less than this right now. you ve lived in washington, covered washington for a long time. is it just in general truth that the people in charge never face the consequence is? that s what i m starting to conclude. its money. i ve always tried to sort of avoid conspiracy theories but when you step back and you look at the people like john brennan, like jim comey, who were in absolute positions of their unquestionable authority and the degree to which so many people in the media sort of blithely sort of wave away a lot of these accusations, it s pretty terrifying to think that these are these were the most powerful people in the country.