conventional war can happen again. tanks which we thought were the future may be more vulnerable than ever with one simple man pad. and a shoulder fired missile. adapt to that and recognize you have to spend on defense to deter your enemies like we didn t do in ukraine. brian: right, got to be ready for the south china sea. be ready for a european war. and middle east war. pete: we don t have enough ships can t do anything about it. brian: got to be vigilant war on terror islamic extremism. r and d going continue to vest in weapons we haven t invented yet. pete: that s what they are counting on. so there is 130 billion for research and development on artificial intelligence as well as 5g. yes, can you never quite imagine what is next. and you better have darpa in other places think of futuristic weapons. ultimately, the ability to find the enemy, target them and kill them is critically important. by the way the cia got huge
and other threats to the aircraft? we have not been able to run that information down as far as locations of other attacks in kabul. i can t confirm there have been other attacks in kabul away from h kaya today. i will tell you this. the safety of our aircraft coming in and out is of paramount importance. you have the opportunity for 450 or more people to die. we don t believe they have a man pad capable of doing it. they have taken shots at our aircraft on occasion without effect. we think that s going to continue. as you know, military aircraft have a variety of self-defense systems. what s more vulnerable are the charter aircraft that do not have those systems. with our isr we look very
left to the august 31st deadline and fine it goes beyond that and as general mckenzie said he has the forces he need. he ll readjust based on the number and he ll do different things but what i would point out is general mckenzie also talked about the threats in the remaining days. he looks to continue with the kneel operation and also look to get final aircraft out of there. you know, the big bullets, the man pad, the shoulder-fired anti-air weapons, those are relatively easy things to take care of. always at the forefront of my mind in the dangers as we transition to this was the suicide bomber. that s the most difficult thing to approach. it s the easiest one to get through the lines, you know. general mckenzie moved on the potential of an explosive device. that would have been tougher getting through the gate. that was my biggest fear if they
0 officials believe isis-k was behind the attacks, but they re still working to confirm that. the state department had been warning for days of a terror attack at the airport. we have reporters standing by. let s start with barbara starr at the pentagon. what do we know about these military members who were killed and what we re expected to hear from the pentagon? in just a very short while we are expecting to hear from general frank mckenzie, the head of the u.s. central command which oversees military operations in the gulf, the middle east, afghanistan. we expect to hear from him. i see john kirby there. the general will have some brief opening remarks. we ll obviously address the events in kabul today as well as the evacuation mission and where we are and where we re going. we ll take questions. i will moderate the questions. i will call on you. please before you ask your question identify yourselves and your outlet so the general has an idea who he s talking to. just a remin
do more to beef up security or do you think that right now they re doing what s needed to be done? how do you feel about it? well, i guess i would say there can never be enough security at that airport. it s such a chaotic situation and when you mass that number of people. people can get hurt just being in a crowd that size but makes a very attractive target for our enemies, for isis for example like nothing better than to attack, set off a suicide bomb in that crowd or take out one of those aircraft with a man pad. that couwould be obviously catastrophic and they would love to see that ka at tcatastrophe. it s a difficult dangerous situation. we have the best trained military in the world but this is a first class, first order safety logistics nightmare and