texas, thank you very much for coming back to the sunday show. joining me now is craig whitlock, an investigative reporter from the washington post, and author of the afghanistan papers. craig, great to see you again on this sunday morning. just love you always have your reporter s hat on. but news of another explosion in kabul, somewhere near the airport. is this what the united states has been expecting as the withdrawal winds down to the final 48 or so hours? it certainly could be. their report said it was a u.s. military drone that was attacking a vehicle that possibly had explosives in it that was headed to the airport. it s early and we ll have to wait a little bit to get confirmation from the pentagon, but that s certainly exactly the type of thing president biden warned about. that said, the troops at the airport and the people who are still hoping to evacuate, they re going to be a target for
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themselves to see the last flight, rather, depart. and then once that last flight does depart, what sense do you have of what afghans expectations are from the taliban? well, there s a lot of fear, obviously, especially among people in kabul. people work for the government for the foreigners, but those so far, you know, no evidence of large scale reapprovals or anything like that. and the city has been relatively calm. so i think people are just waiting and seeing. i would say, also, people are most afraid of when i talk to ordinary people on the street, along with the taliban it s poverty that the country will go through an economic collapse and will be abandoned and sanctioned by the west under the taliban. there is talk that, umm, there will be the possibility of
eugene daniels. and helene cooper. tell us what you know about this u.s. strike in kabul. hi, jonathan. thanks for having me. so this morning, well this evening in kabul, the united states military carried out a drone strike just about, you know, a short distance from kabul airport. defense officials tell me that they hit a vehicle full of suicide bombers, who they believe were intent on striking the airport. they say that the strike was successful. that they destroyed the vehicle and everybody in it, but they also say that there was so much explosives in the vehicle that it may have had other
constitutional issues as well. so i ve never asked joe manchin or kristen sinema to walk away from the filibuster. keep it on legislative procedures. don t ever let it apply to constitutional rights, and that s what is being done here and it ought to be exempted when it comes to constitutional issues. all right. house majority whip jim clyburn of south carolina, thank you very much as always for coming to the sunday show. okay, we are we have obviously the breaking news out of kabul. we re going to go to our correspondent in kabul. he s actually in doha, half sanchez. raf, bring us up to speed on that explosion we ve been talking about all morning. reporter: jonathan, we have known for a couple of hours now there was an explosion in kabul
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