the taliban announcing it has a new government and is really sticking it to america. one of the top officials is the founder of an al qaeda-linked terror group accused of planning attacks on u.s. troops and currently holding an american hostage. general jack keane will be in focus. plus president biden trying hard to turn the wheel, change the subject as the afghanistan debacle is crushing his poll numbers. jason chaffetz is in focus, the faulkner focus top of the hour. dana: facing backlash for allowing the taliban for continue using its platform on twitter when conservatives say they ve been silenced. lawmakers on both sides of the aisles. they re appalled at the new taliban government and outcry about allowing the taliban to operate on twitter and other social media platforms.
president biden is receiving a briefing from his national security team as we speak. u.s. forces remain on high alert in afghanistan this morning. another isis-k attack is imminent according to the latest intelligence. the u.s. embassy in kabul issuing a warning urging americans to leave the airport area immediately. biden is doubling down on his promise to retaliate for thursday s kabul attack vowing that drone strikes will continue against isis-k after friday s killed two high-profile members believed to be involve in planning attacks against u.s. forces. joining us in iran, nbc news chief alley arouzi and msnbc reporter gary grumbach. ali, we ll start with you, tell us about the new threat u.s. forces are facing in kabul and how it s impacting the evacuation plan? hey, lindsey, that s right.
surge. even some people inside the levee system have been told maybe should evacuate. that s how worried they are about this system. all right, we ll have more throughout the hour. u.s. forces are on high alert this morning. another isis-k attack could happen at any moment according to the latest intelligence. president biden made that morning warning while doubling down on his vowed to retaliate on the attack president biden also saying the u.s. will continue airstrikes against isis and a hunt down and the people who were involved. friday strike killed two high-profile isis-k members who were believed to be involved in planning attacks against u.s. forces. joining us right now in iran s toronto bureau chief ali. also joining us right now is nbc news pentagon producer ali we re going to talk with you. first, tell us more about this imminent threat that we re talking about and what measures here in the military is taking. they re still trying to get
air strike against an isis-k militant who was believed to be planning attacks at the kabul airport. right now, at the airport, it is a truly desperate race against time to evacuate all americans with just three days before a self-imposed u.s. deadline to withdraw. looking at live pictures coming in from the airport at kabul right now. let s go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara, i know there is a briefing coming up at the pentagon at the top of the hour. we ll get more information. but what more do we know right now about this drone strike carried out in afghanistan last night? reporter: well, the word came here in washington overnight, wolf, that the u.s. military had launched a drone strike from outside of afghanistan. w against a target in nangarhar province, southeastern afghanistan, a long-time stronghold of isis-k. they say they killed the target, the person they were looking for, and no civilian casualties.
afghanistan and looking at that interview that clarissa just had with the commander, what do you think is the biggest threat to the u.s.? isis-k? taliban? well, al qaeda is still in the mix too. there are several hundred al qaeda fighters in parts of afghanistan who are married into the taliban. and now that the borders are open with iran, where there s still a top al qaeda cell there of some of the future leaders of the movement, they can coalesce and start planning attacks on the west. i think isis-k will, for a time, have to consolidate within afghanistan, but, you know, the taliban s got to install a government. it said that its young fighters are untrained. it s got to teach all of its fighters how to be policemen. things they ve never done before. and it s got to convince some of the former afghan bureaucracy to stay and do their job. and you can see from the amount of people fleeing the airport,