transfer of 13 service members killed in thursday s kabul terrorist bombing. overnight the u.s. missile defense system intercepted five rockets fired at the kabul airport. in casualties reported there. fox team coverage with peter doocy at the white house. let s go to lucas tomlinson at the pentagon and hear from pentagon leadership in about 90 minutes. that s right. u.s. forces continue to be attacked at the kabul air fort. five rockets intercepted one day before the august 31 deadline. the blame game over who lost afghanistan has begun. here is sullivan blaming the generals for the decision to close bagram air base. on the tactical decision of which is the right airport to have for an evacuation, of course any responsible president would give significant weight to the advice of the commanders on the ground and their advice was to close bagram and focus on kabul. officials i ve spoken to say sullivan isn t being accurate.
breaking overnight on the danger at the airport in kabul, u.s. defenses actually shot down a series of rockets that were fired at the airport. video shows the car that was believed to be behind the attack, which as you can see here is incinerate and the white house says president biden has been briefed on the situation, briefed overnight as these evacuations continued ahead of tomorrow s deadline to withdraw u.s. troops. this is all coming just hours after the president attended the dignified transfer of 13 service members who were killed in that terrorist bombing while they were there at the airport, screening people coming in. cnn s clarissa ward is live for us in neighboring pakistan with more on this. clarissa, just give us a sense here overnight what we know has happened, this attack on the airport in kabul that actually
it, of course. look, the hours are ticking by at hamid karzai airport, as you say, wolf. we are getting to the point within the coming hours, we should expect, obviously, to see u.s. troops, the 5,000 or so who are there, beginning to board planes, beginning to pack up their equipment. they need to go. it is going to take them some period of time to get out of there, and it is inevitable, at some point in the not too distant future, they will start that packing up and leaving process. wolf? they only have three days left or so to pack up and get out. barbara, we re also learning more about some of these, you know, really brave 13 american service members who lost their lives at that terrorist bombing. first of all, what can you tell us about these men and women? reporter: you know, the work they were doing was so dangerous, and everybody knew it. they were as protected as could be, the pentagon says, but everybody knew, you know, they
president, what the options are being put forth on him, put forth before him now of dealing with this current security mess that we have at that airport, it s obviously harder to get people into the airport, it is not going to get easier, going to get harder. what are the various realistic options to finish the evacuation? option one will be wrap it up right now. stop taking anybody else and get our military out of there. i don t think he will select that. smack too much of lebanon response to the terrorist bombing where we decamped immediately. option two, chuck, continue the mission with a very firm eye toward getting out of here as currently postulated on tuesday, try to push the security perimeter out further, try to work with the taliban to get better security, but effectively option two is continue the
0 karen greenburg, thanks so much. that does it for this edition. chuck todd is up next with mtp daily only on msnbc. well, don t worry, andrea, you re not going very far. we re coming back to you in a moment. welcome back to mtp daily. a pair of explosions rocked kabul, have tloefr the u.s. evacuation efforts into turmoil, just five days before president biden s agreed to deadline to get americans out. u.s. officials tell nbc news at least three marines were wounded in the attack outside the airport. hospital officials are treating about 60 people injured and at least six killed. pentagon press secretary john kirby tweeted there were two blasts in what he calls a complex attack. one of those explosions at the abbey gate and the other at a hotel. the briefing he was supposed to have was postponed by events on the ground as was the covid task force briefing. the administration says the president has been briefed on the situation. it is our understanding he is in the oval office