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victims, the president that retribution. to those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes america harm, no this. we will not forgive. we will not forget. we will hunt you down and 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 where the flags over the u.s. capital, they are now just five days left to complete the evacuation, the drawdown in afghanistan. earlier this week, the president announced the august 31st deadline would not be extended, precisely because of security concerns surrounding the operation at the crowded airport. the white house says that despite today s bombings, neither the nda nor the mission has changed. i would note that more than 700,000 70,000 people were evacuated over the last 24 hours. that includes members from coalition partners. this is what the president is focused on, getting as many people on the ....
alerts. a lot of lives are on the line. the pentagon is stating today according to the information they have now which is different from some of the reporting basically the chaos of yesterday, the pentagon states their findings of one explosion and not two which was widely reported in our breaking coverage yesterday. 12,000 people now additionally have been evacuated at the airport over the last 24 hours. president biden speaking today about the continuing mission. the mission being performed is dangerous and is now come with significant loss of american personnel. it is a worthy mission, they continue to evacuate folks out of that region out of the airport, we ll keep the mission. taliban insists that people with valid documents are able to get in and out of the country they claim any time. white house officials confirmed to nbc news today, places where they may go after isis for retribution for these american deaths. as the president stated in that somber address to ....
the u.s. military and taliban tried to expert what authority they could. militants with rifles kept crowds away from the airport gates guarding checkpoints with trucks and at least one humvee by the roads. many with bags at their sides numbers in the hundreds, not the thousands of previous days. the security situation turning the united states and the taliban into strange bed fellows. seth moulton went on a controversial and unauthorized trip to kabul this week described the scene before the bombing and how the marines are working with the taliban. it s an impossible task we ve given them to literally sift through a sea of humanity, thousands and thousands of afghans to try to pluck out our allies, our friends and their families, their husbands, their wives, their little girls and boys, literally pull them to freedom. i expected to see a gate with marines on one side and afghans on the other. that s not the way this could work. we have to go out in the crowd. so these ....
you are onto something, jason. we are not competitive here, that s what busta trying to teach us. amen to busta-bust. thank you for someone who always have us all in checked. woo-hah. give me some more. we can keep going but we ll stop. i want to thank you jason and nicole. two people that we always love to chat with. i am ari melber on the beat. the house investigating with evidence investigating on the rioters. house investigators going further on donald trump. what he knew and what he did, pulling on a thread and we talked about this. it seems both obvious but has not been formally legally proven yet. the threat is this. did donald trump plan the storming of the capitol as a premeditated part of his failed sloppy coup? today the house committee determining seven agencies will go towards what trump did and knew. they want to know about the insurrection. they re asking trump s knowledge of the election results and what he communicated to the american people a ....
full troop withdraw from afghanistan, flying in the face of our allies who want us to stay longer until all friendly forces are safely out of the country. in a group of gop lawmakers rippinging into president biden over that decision. it will be a stain on this presidency, and particularly after the decision made today and what we heard today, he will have blood on his hands. our allies no longer trust us, and our enemies no longer fear us. everything about this situation that we re in now i wills joe biden s fault. it s reckless for our country and it s disastrous taking place. it s his responsibility. this is not politics. nobody wants to be standing up in front of you talking about this. this is a failure. and talk about gas lighting the entire country. the white house says americans are not being stranded in kabul, but take a listen to this account. we are stranded. we can t get to the airport. when we try to get to the airport we get beaten up or are afra ....