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Gate to the kabul airport. just hours earlier the u.s. and several other western governments had warned of an imminent islamic state attack and indeed urged their citizens to stay away from the airport for good reason. a group called isis-k has claimed responsibility for the bombings. late this afternoon at the white house during emotional remarks that the included a moment of silence to remember the victims, the president vowed retribution. for those who carried out this attack as well as anyone who wishes america harm know this, we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down to make you pay. i will defend our interests and our people with every measure at my command. this evening the flag atop the white house has been lowered to half staff as were the flags ....
Rescue afghans who were left behind. i think the reason for that, trace, we will not do anything. we are going to leave on the 31st and leave thousands of americans behind and we are not coming back. spilling the attack at the airport, fred, they knew about this threat for a week in the present keeps talking about over the horizon and intel, surveillance, drones, their equipment and yet the attack happens and we couldn t stop the attack. what do you make of not having eyes, i really, eyes on the ground in afghanistan? i think it is a big problem. we gave up a lot of capabilities. we just had the airport left. this over the horizon capability really doesn t it s a bit of an exaggeration given that we don t have any basis in afghanistan except for this airport. everything we are doing is coming out of the airport. on the horizon a set of eight hour plane ride for male craft ....
Started again, another civil war in afghanistan? i don t understand taliban and isis, are they friend or enemy? i think that there is clear historic evidence that they have been enemies in the past. i don t have any assessment beyond what we have said over the last few days about the fact that we have no information to suggest that the taliban had knowledge of or engagement in the isis-k attack. all i have available is or to speak to is the historic. hello, okay. what we have and we have not done this in a while is blake patterson from the advocate in baton rouge, louisiana. thank you for having me. tropical storm ida is on the doorstep of louisiana and ....
Others are still fighting to get out? thanks for having me, michael. it s been really rough. it s been a rough 48 hours actually. we were anticipating attacks, and that created challenges getting people safely to the airport. then of course when the attacks went off, we lost a lot of lives today. a lot of afghans lost their lives, marines, and service members lost their lives and were wounded. that pretty much shut down the airport, and then there was no movement. and fortunately for, you know, the one case that you and i were following together, we had warned them of the attack, and they were in a safe house when the bomb went off. yeah. i know you re working hard on that as well as many others. what are these applicants telling you they re doing right now? i manage hiding, destroying documents, erasing their previous lives. what are you hearing from them? ....
That s something that i ve been talking to defense officials, of course, ever since this happened because one of the big questions immediately after an attack like this is the u.s. going to respond? i think that our viewers may be surprised to find out that ever since the u.s. military began the withdrawal, which really began in april or may of this year, with the military withdrawal comes a withdrawal of a lot of intelligence assets. so the u.s. military has much less of a clear picture of where some of these fighters, potential isis fighters may be and the potential to strike back is clouder now than it was six months or a year ago, and it will only get worse as the u.s. is gone. since this evacuation mission began on august 14th, most of those efforts are fixed on kabul and, particularly, on the airport. because the biggest concern is ....