Hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans specifically. Hurricane ida will be a huge deal over the course of this weekend. You need to keep an eye on it. Were hoping the track turns and that it doesnt end up on the track it looks like its on tonight. Keep your eyes on that. If youre in the path of potential Hurricane Ida, please, please pay attention to local Evacuation Warnings and forecasts. Heed these warnings, this is a big storm. Thats going to do it for us for now. Its time for the last word. Jonathan capehart is in for lawrence tonight. Its a Big Night already, jonathan. It is, you covered a lot of big news. I have to say, i couldnt get ready for tonights show for the first 30 minutes of your show, listening to you break down the people not trusting the cdc but fully taking recommendations from facebook to take what is it, ivermectin . It can cure Head Lice and scabies in people or deworm your cow but it does nothing for covid. It is turning into an epidemic of misuse thats turning out to be dangerous. Its insane. Right already and at a time when Hospital Beds are filling up with covid patients and not having enough Hospital Beds for people who dont have covid. Were going to be talking about a lot of this on the Sunday Show On Sunday but we have to get to the Breaking News that you ended your show with. Rachel, thank you very much. And tonight we do begin with the Breaking News, the u. S. Military has conducted a Counterterrorism Operation against an isisk planner. Initial indications are that the target was killed, according to officials. Isisk is the terrorist organization that claims responsibility for the explosion at Kabul Airport that killed 13 u. S. Service members on thursday. Military officials say the unmanned Air Strike took Place Today in the Nangarhar Province of afghanistan. Tonight efforts continue in the evacuation Of Americans and allies of afghanistan before the August 31 deadline for withdrawal. Today according to the White House another 4,200 people were evacuated from kabul. More than 114,000 have been evacuated from afghanistan since july, including more than 5,000 americans. Nbc news has learned that National Security officials believe another attack outside Kabul Airport is likely and warn that the next days will be the most dangerous yet. And there is new information Breaking Tonight about yesterdays deadly terror attack. The New York times reports at 5 48 p. M. The bomber, wearing a 25pound explosive vest under clothing, walked up to the group Of Americans who were frisking people hoping to enter the complex. He waited, officials said, until just before he was about to be searched by the american troops and then he detonated the bomb, which was unusually large for a suicide vest, killing himself and igniting an attack that would leave dozens of people dead, including 13 american Service Members. Those 13 u. S. Service members killed include 11 marines, one navy corpsman, and one soldier. More than a dozen u. S. Service members were injured. As many as 170 afghan civilians outside the airport were killed in the explosion. None of those killed were american. Another 200 civilians were reportedly injured. Today President Biden once again offered his condolences to the families of the 13 fallen Service Members. Let me begin by once again acknowledging the bravery and the sacrifice that our military makes every single day. And the loss Of Americans, and a reasons and a sailor, army personnel, is tragic. But look, the mission there being performed is dangerous and now has come with significant loss of american personnel. But its a worthy mission because they continue to evacuate folks out of that region, out of the airport. Officials have issued maximum Force Protection measures to counter any possible threat in the final days of the evacuations. Even with heightened security concerns, thousands remain outside Kabul Airport, desperate to evacuate before the August 31 deadline. President Biden Has said he intends to stick to that deadline but talks between State Department officials and the taliban are under way to keep Kabul Airport open beyond the end of the month. Joining us now is michael weiss, senior editor for new alliance magazine, the coauthor of isis inside the army of terror. Michael, thank you very much for being here. For the audience who doesnt know, what is isisk and what is its relationship with the taliban . So isisk was formed in 2014. Many of its top ranking members were actually disaffected members of both the Afghan Taliban and the pakistani taliban. These are guys who think that the taliban who now rules afghanistan was too cuddly for their liking. The taliban has always been seeking to establish a socalled emirate to control the Nation State of afghanistan. Isiss mission is deeply more ideological. They look to establish their socalled caliphate throughout the world. They will not stop, as they have said repeatedly, since even before 2014, when the u. S. Led coalition went into syria and iraq, that they want to see the Black Flag flying over the capitals of rome, london, washington, d. C. So, you know, isis is a transnational terror organization. And isisk, which essentially just became a franchise of the Core Isis that grew up in the levant and mesopotamia, shares the same theocratic ideology. Its true that isisk and the taliban have been at war with each other for several years, ferociously, in some cases. There have been instances were the u. S. Air force seeing both of them on the ground basically bombed isisk knowing the taliban would overtake them on the ground. The problem is, and you can talk to any expert on afghanistan longer than i have, as you mentioned, because the Isisk Fighters come from the former ranks of the taliban, they share Family Members and associations with members inside the taliban. The taliban is not a cohesive organization in the way you might like to think it is. It is an insurgency. As weve seen, their socalled security checkpoints, isisk managed to penetrate them in grimly spectacular fashion in two different places for these double Suicide Bombings this week which killed over A Hundred people including, as you say, 13 or 14 u. S. Service members. The concern among u. S. National security types and intelligence is that if the taliban is somehow infiltrated or compromised by members of isisk, the taliban, which by the way is still not formally in control of afghanistan, right, this is a blitzkrieg into kabul that surprised even themselves. So they dont have a complete sort of situational awareness of whats going on. This is a really dire set of circumstances. Both for the taliban, if you believe their doctrine that theyre at war with isisk and will continue to be, and for the united states. Michael, you just gave me a piece of information that i had not considered. Im sure a lot of people watching didnt consider it, and that is, the taliban itself actually might be weak compared to the insurgency of isis. Michael weiss, well have to leave it there, thank you very, very much for coming to the last word. Gene robinson, Pulitzer Prize winning Editor And Columnist for the washington post, and david rothkopf, host of The Deep State Radio podcast. David, let me start with you and lets listen to something that State Department spokesperson Ned Price said earlier today. They have made very clear to us in our communication, they would like to see an american diplomatic presence remain. Ultimately, of course, its not up to the taliban, its a determination that we will need to make, consistent with the overriding prerogative, and that is the Safety And Security of american officials. It is a decision we plan to discuss and to confer about with our allies and partners as well. And so, david, in answering getting your reaction to what Ned Price just said there, in your answer, factor in what we just heard from michael, and that is this notion that the taliban is not firmly in control in afghanistan, and that the potential of Isis Infiltrating The Taliban and making it weaker is something that has biden administration officials kind of worried. Yes, and i think the biden administration is handling this extremely well. Also stated in the ned Price Press Conference that you were talking about was that the Deputy Secretary of state is hosting daily meetings with 30 of our allies to discuss just how we proceed. He mentioned specifically that the united states is going to be coordinating with our allies. What kind of diplomatic presence they will have, we will have, what degree we will acknowledge the taliban as the government, what the conditions are and so forth. And i think thats right and i think thats prudent. We also have a lot of leverage with the taliban in terms of economic factors. We hold a lot of the assets of the government of afghanistan. Theres a lot of international economic leverage that weve got as well. And i think the united states is trying to use it to do things like you mentioned, including keeping the airport open so that people can get out in the future. The taliban have said they want to keep the borders open. If thats the case, and theyre able to do that, thats also a positive thing. And after all, the objective of the united states is to be able to protect our citizens and also to be able to keep eyes and ears on terrorists like those from isisk so we can do exactly what we did today, which is when we find them and identify them, we can send in a drone or whatever we need to do and eliminate them. Gene, i want to read something from your fantastic column in our paper, the washington post, today. Ill read this to you and to the audience. The problem is that this, quote, Forever War Truly would have had to continue forever. We were never going to outlast the taliban because, and this is an important point, its members live there and want to govern the country. Afghanistan is their country, not ours. The Nations Fate was never going to matter more to us than it does to them, however repulsive we may find their vision for it. So gene, why are so many people surprised with how this ended . Right, i dont know. I dont know. How would you imagine this war would end . Its messy. Its tragic. But it was going to end more or less this way, different event, god willing the Suicide Bombing Wouldnt have happened, maybe more people would have gotten out. But the fact is this was bound to end in a messy, sad, tragic way, because we were going to leave. Whether last year, this year, right now, next year, five years from now, we were going to leave. The taliban was going to still be there. Isisk was still going to be there. And afghanistan was still going to be afghanistan. We gave it the illusion of a secular democracy, but not the actuality of a secular democracy, because frankly, not enough afghans bought into that idea. And thats just the sad fact. I want to bring the audience up on something we just got in, some new reporting from nbc news. The target of tonights Drone Strike was an Isisk Fighter thought to be involved in planning for future attacks according to two u. S. Defense officials. He was riding in a vehicle with one associate at the time. They were driving in an isolated area and the u. S. Military is not aware of any civilian casualties in the strike. David, how surprised are you that the united states was able to find the alleged bomber so quickly . Im not that surprised. The united states has extraordinary resources. I think one of the things we might want to take from this is that some of the criticism that we were hearing two weeks ago about the nature of this pullout is just not true. One of the criticisms was we would not have intelligence assets and be able to control terrorist threats. Well, that was disproven within 24 hours from this attack. We were also told the united states was going to sort of fall back in the view of the world. But in the course of the past two weeks, weve overseen one of the biggest logistical achievements of any modern military ever. I think by the time we get to the deadline, we might have airlifted 150,000 people out of afghanistan. That was also something we were told was not going to be possible. In other words, very early on in the evacuation, there were a lot of people essentially crying wolf about what this meant for the united states. But now that we have just two weeks of perspective, we can see that we remain in a very strong position, able to advance our mission. And the president seems to be exactly right in pursuing this as he had for all the Reasons Gene just pointed out. And gene, on the question of the president , i initially was going to ask you how will this, meaning the bombing and the way the evacuation is going, is going to factor into his presidency. But now that we have this Breaking News Tonight that the alleged bomber from Yesterdays Bombing at the airport has been killed by the u. S. Military, how does this all play into the crass politics thats facing the president . You know, in fact we dont know, jonathan, and we wont know for some time. But the lesson we can take is that the initial lesson, all the conventionally wise, just ignore that. Also ignore the people who might say the opposite and realize that when big events like this happen, we dont know on day two or week two or really month two, what the ultimate impact is going to be. It always takes time. What was the political impact on Franklin Roosevelt of Pearl Harbor . You know, you could imagine twitter the next day saying this is it, its over for roosevelt. And we all know how that played out. So, you know, were going to have to wait and see. And i know that sounds like a cliche, but its just simply true. Gene, that is actually good advice for all of us, in this profession and also for the american people, wait and see. Eugene robinson, david rothkopf, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Coming up, more Breaking News. 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Covid hospitalizations of children have overwhelmed hospitals in the state, just as Hurricane Ida is forecast to make landfall On Sunday as a Lifethreatening Category 4 storm, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina hit louisiana as a category 3 storm. The mayor of New Orleans has ordered mandatory evacuations for residents in lowlying areas outside the citys levy system. Shes also called for voluntary evacuations inside the levy system. Our next guest is the Chief Physician at New Orleans Childrens Hospital where the surge in hospitalizations was so intense this month that the state called in a federal Surge Team of doctors, nurses, and paramedics. Louisiana is among the states with the lowest vaccination rate. Just 40. 9 of people in louisiana are vaccinated. On Tuesday Louisiana set a new record for coronavirus deaths in a single day with 139. The day after, louisiana reported 110 covid deaths. One of them was a baby less than a year old. It was the first time in six months that a child had died from covid in louisiana. Since the pandemic began, 11 children under the age of 18 in louisiana have died from covid and right now, about 31 of new covid cases in louisiana are among children younger than 18. The picture across the united states is just as bad. Across the country, more than 100,000 people are hospitalized for covid19. The highest number since january. Daily covid deaths have increased by 53 in the last two weeks. Dr. Mark klein is standing by in New Orleans. But first, lets get the latest on Hurricane Ida with meteorologist michelle grossman. Hey there, jonathan. So were expecting a category 4 storm. This is a terrible situation by itself. And with a pandemic, its obviously even worse. So were looking at category 1 storm now. As it makes landfall, well see a category 4 storm. This is ida, Crossing Over cuba now, were looking at winds over 80 miles per hour. Over the next 36 hours it will go over the waters of the gulf of mexico. Its so warm, theyre so deep, thats really all it needs to blossom. So it will quickly become a category 2 storm. And then a category 4 storm early sunday morning. Now, look what happens. Were mentioning New Orleans. The coast of louisiana. We are expecting a landfall now of a category 4 storm with 140mileperhour winds. Its not out of the realm of possibility to see this blossom that we Category 5 storm. Well see in the advisory thats coming out in 40 minutes. Well watch over the next 36 hours. When you think of hurricanes, you think of water, of course. Torrential downfall will fall On Sunday, well see 20 inches of rain. Well see the levies tested, Pumping Stations tested as well, 24 purposeful stations. Were looking at tropical alerts spanning from Lake Charles to the mississippi alabama border. Where you see that red, and that includes New Orleans and Baton Rouge and morgan city, were under hurricane warning. If you have not heeded those warnings, you want to do so tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow afternoon. Sunday will be too late. Well see tropical winds picking up late tomorrow night. These are the rainfall impacts. This is a dire situation when you see these numbers. Generally eight to 15 inches. We could see up to 20 cinches of inches of rain and a Storm Surge of up to 20 feet. Joining us is dr. Mark klein, physician in chief of Childrens Hospital, New Orleans. Hes a pediatrician and infectious disease specialist. Dr. Klein, thank you very much for being here. Whats your hospital doing to prepare for a possible category 4 hurricane and how devastating could this hurricane be for hospitals already struggling with covid patients . Thanks for having me, jonathan. Hospitals are stretched really thin. The staff is exhausted. The nurses, the doctors, and the Respiratory Therapists and social workers have been working overtime for a couple of months now with this Delta Surge of covid19. Our own hospital had its busiest month in 66 years in the history of the hospital in july in terms of the average daily census, the census in our critical care units and the census in our Emergency Center. Our Emergency Center visits were up 77 in july compared to june. So people have worked as hard as they possibly can and the last thing in the world that we need right now is a category 4 storm impacting us. But thats what weve got. And were going to pull together and work as a team. And well get through this like we have everything else. You know, dr. Klein, ive been wondering this, what are you saying to parents who are unvaccinated and their children are hospitalized with covid . What im saying to all parent, whether they have a child hospitalized with covid or not, is get the vaccine. Adults have to take responsibility for this. Young children are not eligible for the vaccine just yet. And so if youre under 12 years of age, youre not going to be vaccinated. And even for adolescents between 12 and about 17 years of age, the rate of vaccination has been very low. As adults weve got to step up, show responsibility, and get vaccinated to protect the most vulnerable among us and thats young children. This pandemic is heavily impacting children across the Age Range in our own hospital, were seeing children as young as 7, 8, 9 weeks of age hospitalized in our pediatric intensive care unit. And those cases are entirely preventible if we simply do what we need to do which is to mask up, distance, and above all, vaccinate. Dr. Mark klein, thank you for being here. We hope you and your hospital stay safe this weekend. Thank you for joining us tonight. Thanks, jonathan. Coming up, tonight, in the middle of a pandemic, millions Of Americans are in danger of losing their homes after conservatives on the Supreme Court ruled against the biden administrations Eviction Moratorium. 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And two, studies have shown that evictions could further accelerate the spread of the virus as people congregate together in communal housing situations. Justice breyer, joint by Justice Sotomayor and kagan, wrote in their dissent, The Public Interest is not favored by the spread of a disease or the courts secondguessing of the cdcs judgment. Congresswoman cori bush, who Led A Protest earlier this month, sleeping on the capitol steps, tweeted, we were outside the capitol for five days. Rain, heat, cold. If they think this partisan ruling is going to stop us from fighting to keep people housed, theyre wrong. Congress needs to act immediately for every unhoused or soon to be unhoused person in our districts. Joining us now are democratic Congressman Mondaire jones of New York, deputy whip of the deputy progressive caucus. And tara ragovir, founder of a tenants Rights Organization in kansas city, missouri. Thank you both very much for being here. Congressman jones, why isnt the rental Assistance Funding getting to the tenants who need it most . What are you hearing from your constituents who are most affected by this ruling . Im hearing from my constituents what the new governor of New York has said, which is that the Status Quo is unacceptable. New york, my home state, is sitting on more than 2 Billion of money that congress, people like myself, have already appropriated through legislation for this purpose. And yet the Government Agency in New York state responsible for disbursing those funds has been slow to do so. I think with new leadership, kathy hochul, the new governor, well see a change in New York state after the departure of governor cuomo. We have to do as members of congress what we failed to do, which is to make it easier for landlords to be made whole. No one is trying to deprive them of what they are owed. We just want to keep as many as 11 Million people from becoming unhoused in this country in the midst of a deadly pandemic. The court is increasingly using, quote, Shadow Docket cases, cases often decided without oral arguments. And often without a majority opinion, explaining the Courts Reasoning to issue significant rulings. What does this say about the future of the Supreme Court . I think it is the latest example of how the 63 hyperpartisan conservative majority on the Supreme Court is out of touch with the realities of Working Class people in this country. Again, this is something that should not have happened. There was a statute that very clearly gave the cdc the authority to reinstate the Eviction Moratorium recently. In the midst of a pandemic, i think it is at its strongest in terms of the justification in doing so. And what we see is a court, in the same way it has been hostile to Voting Rights, in the same way that it has struck down statutes or dismantled statutes that were duly enacted by congress, is again putting itself ahead of the interests of the american people and elevating itself even above congressional Action And Action by the White House in the form of Executive Action that it is authorized to do in this case. And tara, were you surprised by last Nights Court Ruling . I wasnt surprised. Im a tenant organizer, and we have known since March Of 2020 that an Eviction Moratorium was going to be temporary and it wasnt going to save us. We knew that the courts were going to challenge the biden administration on the reinstatement of this moratorium. And the courts are partisan, as Representative Jones just pointed out, they voted or they made a decision along partisan lines Last Night. And the implications are going to be devastating for tenants. Tenants were already in a bad position to begin with. So no, i wasnt surprised. And now were buckling up for what is going to be a really, really hard period for poor and Working Class americans. Your organization, peoples action, is proposing a national Tenants Bill of rights. What does a national Tenants Bill of rights entail . What does that look like . Its all about power, jonathan. So in todays housing market, the landlord has all the power over the tenant. And thats because there are no national eviction or any other tenant protections. So im a tenant in a state like missouri, and in missouri, this is one of the most tenantunfriendly states in the country. Tenants in Representative Jones state, New York, might have more protections. But that patchwork is really killing us. And the Power Dynamic makes it such that a tenant has to deal with conditions that no person should ever have to deal with in order to keep a roof over their head. So a national Tenants Bill of rights would address this by banning source of income discrimination, making it so that landlords dont get to discriminate against voucher holders. It would put controls on rent so that rents arent hiked to unbelievable Rates Year after year after year. It would make it so that Landlords Cant Evict for no cause. Were in the process right now of talking to millions of tenants across the country about what they want and need out of this national Tenants Bill of rights. This is the only way the problems were facing now will be truly addressed. Congressman jones, to that point of systemic fix, how likely is it that congress will act in the way that the court demands, that Congress Fix this . I think youll see the house continue to do the Lions Share of the work to build a place where everyone in this country can live. But when it gets to the senate, youre still going to have this issue of the filibuster, which i have very publicly called on the White House to help us get rid of, because so long as you have people like Manchin And Sinema saying we need ten republicans of good conscience to sign onto any legislation outside of the reconciliation process, you are going to continue to have a situation where as many as 11 Million people face Housing Insecurity in this country. And that is simply untenable. So weve got to continue to push obviously for congress to do its job, for the senate to get riveted filibuster. But we also have to call on the states to get this money out. In total congress has allocated over 46 Billion for this purpose between the c. A. R. E. S. Act legislation passed in december of last year and the american Rescue Plan passed this year. We have the funds to get Rental Assistance out. We just need the political will at the State Level to get it out. 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Debate on the bill ran for more than 12 hours yesterday, with republicans adding several provisions that make the legislation even more restrictive, including imposing criminal penalties and civil fines on Election Workers and requiring large texas counties to livestream the ballot countying process. Republicans shot down all but one of the amendments suggested by democrats. The most shocking and illustrative moment of Yesterdays Debate came when the republican speaker actually asked members not to use the Word Racism while Debating Legislation that will disproportionately impact voters of color. Republicans dont want to be called racist for passing racist legislation, fancy that. Our next guest, a state representative, explained in detail to texas republicans how their election policies have targeted people of color. Courts have pointed out over and over and over again, intentional discrimination against africanamericans, intentional discrimination against latinos, intentional discrimination against people of color. These are not my words. These are three federal courts across this country making ten findings of that intentional discrimination. Intentional discrimination against people of a certain race, is that racism . Ms. Hinojosa those words i think can be fairly characterized in that matter. We can talk about racial impacts of this legislation without accusing members of this body of being racist. I mean, come on. Tonight the Texas Senate decided to send the voting Restrictions Bill to conference committee. Joining us now is democratic texas state representative, chair of the mexicoamerican legislative caucus, and brittany cooper, associate professor of womens and gender constituents and africana studies at rutgers university, author of eloquent rage. Let me start with you, state representative. Republicans seem oh, so uncomfortable using the word racist. But as you pointed out, the policies of the texas republican legislature have a history of discriminating against people of color. And this isnt oldtimey newsreel stuff. This is digital and this is contemporary, all happening in the last decade of Voting Rights patterns. Go one step further, look at the discriminatory effect. The courts have said, you meant to discriminate. Thats a damning record. Its against that backdrop that we debated the bill over 13 hours Last Night. We knew this day was coming, we broke quorum twice, went to washington, made the case for the federal government to act. You heard the groans from my republican colleagues in the background. They prefer to talk in the language of, and you probably remember this, purity of the ballot box, that was a famous change that we had on the House Floor that went viral. We have to call it what it is. Intentional discrimination against people of color is racism. And thats the bottom line. It was an unfortunate statement, and again, it was not me saying it. These were federal judges that were appointed by republicans and democrats across the country that made these findings over and over and over again. And brittany, many Republicans Campaign on this type of Dog Whistle around issues involving race, whether its voting or social safety programs or especially emigration but then they bristle if someone calls it racist. Yeah. I mean, look. Its not racist if you dont say its racist, right . This sophistry that goes on on the right where they want to be they are being brazenly, intentionally racist and they dont want to be called that. But i think that that exchange where there was this discourse about the difference between intention and impact, is really important. Most of us who Work On Studies of Race And Racism have said for a long time that we actually should be looking primarily at desperate impact. If you can prove that these policies make it harder for people of color to go vote, we dont actually need to know about your intention. What we know is that you act in ways that make the world harder for black and brown people to participate in democracy. But what is also true, and i think what is most infuriating, is that in this case we also know that they meet the intentionality standard. They arent just acting in ways that are having bad impacts. They actually are intentionally doing so. And we have a real problem in this country where most of the folks who are racist want to brazenly, openly be racist. They just dont want to be called racists. And you dont need to be a federal court to know what racism is. We all know what it is. And these folks who are being called out, they know exactly what it is. They just want us to have this air of civility that says that we can act in ways to use power to devastate people and then we dont want to be held accountable want to be held accountable, and then described by what dictionary gives us to describe it. I will call it out. If they are going to act it. How are you feeling tonight . Now that this bill that you fought hard to block, is inching forward to becoming law . How do you feel about the impacts of the workers and Election Workers. We take rights seriously. My mother grew up in mexico where, they had one Party Rule for 70 years. When you talk about Voting Rights, we take it seriously, the fight is not over. It shifted to the House Floor. This bill will not become law for 90 days, it wont be effective. I look at the camera today, and i looked at our friends in washington, i looked at the united states senator, including the texas senators, now is the time on the Voting Rights act. There is the john lewis act, we need federal protection. Republicans in the state of texas have shown themselves incapable of protecting the freedom of millions of texans. That is where i am. I am hopeful we will get something done in texas. We met in the roosevelt room. She asked us to hold out, give congress time to act. A special session, now, 90 days left before this law goes into effect. The clock is ticking. We need action. 90 days, the clock is ticking. Texas representative, and brittany cooper, thank you for joining us tonight. Joining us tonight. We will be right back. You need an ecolab scientific clean here. And you need it here. And here. And here. Which is why the scientific expertise that helps Operating Rooms stay clean is now helping the places you go every day too. Seek a commitment to clean. Look for the Ecolab Science certified seal. As someone who resembles someone else. I appreciate that Liberty Mutual knows everyones unique. 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This attack was this strike was a direct retaliation for the attack at Kabul Airport yesterday. It was against someone who is believed to be involved in planning for future attacks by isis. This is one individual. He was isolated in a vehicle, at the time of the Drone Strike. U. S. Military doesnt believe that there were any civilian casualties in the strike. It occurreded in the eastern part of Afghan Starngs along the border with pakistan. It is an area that isis, they had a safe haven in, when there was a large offensive, and the taliban fought against isis at that time as well. Largely driven out of the area. They lost the ground that they were holding there. The reality is, jonathan, there have been isis fighters there. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 to A Thousand exist in afghanistan, they just dont hold the land that they used to. The u. S. Carrying out the strike for the attack on Kabul Airport yesterday. How worried are there about future attacks . They are concerned. There is incredible intelligence what isis trying to carry out additional attacks in kabul. Against Kabul Airport. They are concerned about the threat of suicide attacks, by an individual. They are worried about a potential vehiclebourne explosive device. Getting on the airport and detonating, and worried about in many in afghanistan of rockets. They are worried about Someone Firing Rockets on the runway, stopping the evacuation effort. And in a worst case scenario, taking out a civilian airliner. How can the military protect against an attack without slowing down the evacuation . Which is now in the waining days . Closing days . Reporter that is one of the biggest challenges, they have to maintain perimeter skusht. The job that many of the Service Members are doing are screening civilians. They are patting them down. Checking them for weapons, that is how we saw the Suicide Bomber get close to the u. S. Military members. They were screening the person, checking them as they were coming on the air field. It will be a constant challenge, while the u. S. Military is at the airport. Until August 31st. Thank you for joining us tonight. Dont forget to tune in to the Sunday Show this week. I will be joined by house majority whip. 10 00 eastern on msnbc. That is donts last word. That is tonights last word. Day 220 of the biden administration, we are following dramatic developments out of afghanistan. Following the deadly attack. The u. S. Military retaliated for that Taechblth A spokesman for u. S. Central command released a statement. U. S. Forces conducted an over the Horizon Counter Terrorism against an Isis Planner. It occurred in the province of