the airport and to continue evacuation has been ordered. is that going to be good enough for all the americans still there? when you have one facility and it is now a target and you don t have any other options outside of that, if it s this one facility, so now it is, you know, terrorists go for it and we may see more attacks as you heard from the general. the threat stream is increasing. martha: brett, thanks very much. we ll see you in a little while as we continue to cover this throughout the afternoon. the united states military says that isis fighters were behind the two attacks today outside the airport in kabul including one that killed 12 united states service members. jennifer griffin was just in that room and she had questions for general mckenzie. she joins us now. jennifer, your reaction to what we just learned in there. what was significant, martha,
this bomber. obviously the bombers have been trying to get on to the tarmac. that would be a goal of this of whoever was carrying out the terror attack. he described the relationship with the taliban. they set up the perimeter outside the airport back about 500 meters. they were supposed to be checking everyone coming through. we heard abuses of that over time from afghan evacuees, but the u.s. is in constant coordinate with the taliban. that s what somewhat surprising to visualize. but general mckenzie said that they have no indication as of right now that the taliban were involved in any way. he did say they re actively trying to a tribute this attack. there were two suicide bombers. one at the abbey gate at one at the baron hotel. this were no americans at the baron hotel. that s where the british service
martha: yeah, it is a tragedy. you know, there s been a phrase that i keep hearing in these statements from the white house and the state department and the pentagon, as many as we can. i think the bar has been lowered. you know, we re going to see how many people that they can get out by the 31st. clearly general mckenzie has been cleared to keep going with the evacuations and to continue to pull out. when you look at this as a former a retired navy seal, do you have thoughts on a better way to do this, on a better way to run this operation to get these people out safely? i don t have a better way to run it tactically at the airport. what those guys are doing there, they are making all the right moves. they re constrained by the strategy of having a choke point. we re going to have one base, geographically located where the enemy knows it is and set a time
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. thank you, jennifer. jennifer griffin. let s bring in retired navy seal commander, david sears. he served in the military 20 years, deployed to afghanistan twice. he s author of the book smarter, not harder. thanks for being with us, david. when you take a look at what has happened here, the loss of 12 u.s. servicemen today in afghanistan as a result of suicide bombs and you listen to general mckenzie, talk about how they re asking the taliban to close off roads, to prevent what
they re getting about possible attacks or suicide bombers or vehicle bombs so that the taliban can help them screen them on the outer ring before they get to the airport. put that in perspective for a second. just a few weeks ago, we were bombing the taliban. in afghanistan. we have considered the taliban enemies. now we re giving them intel to help protect our forces and the afghan allies, this is the same taliban that has been harassing u.s. citizens trying to get to the airport and also preventing afghans from getting through. to the extent that this administration and pentagon is trusting the taliban is something. he went on to say there s no reason to believe that the taliban is somehow tied to this. but that they don t know that. this is a tremendously dangerous