isis-affiliated fighters in afghanistan and pakistan. the group itself that claimed responsibility today was issued by isis main media unit. isis fighters in afghanistan don t have any way of releasing their own their own propaganda, their own messaging. they don t have the freedom to issue their own opinions. everything that they issue, everything that they say is issued through the main isis central media unit and main isis spokesman. so, you know, there isn t as much independence here as i think some people think. this is isis. this is the islamic state that did this, right? and i think it kind of brings us back to something, which is a bit sad, which is that this group, isis affiliated fighters in afghanistan, they were basically dead. two years ago they were dead. there was no attacks being committed by them. they were gone. all of a sudden in the past year and a half, two years, out of nowhere, they have come back and made a tremendous resurgence. and again, you were right, not
0 can t operate in the same way and the afghans they worked with is not assessable. and now to try to find the people responsible for this attack or future attacks is a much more different position. to our viewers just as i took the baton from alicia mendez, i am going to pass it to ari melber. we thank our guests, peter baker and greg mire. we ll be going live to jen psaki as the president departures from the east room heading back to the oval office. jen psaki will take many, many questions, the press corp will have for her. with that, our forecast with ari melber. thank you, we are giving you this continuous coverage on a difficult day in afghanistan as brian williams just mentioned we are here awaiting this briefing from the white house s press secretary. many questions there. you can see reporters already getting into position. we ll bring it to you live. here is the latest on what we know tonight. two suicidal bombers detonated themselves in kabul. the death toll is high. 12