To this position . Joe biden is to blame, i think Robert Gates said it best, there hasnt been a foreign Policy Decision Joe Biden has made in the last 40 years thats been any good. When you project weakness from the Oval Office as Joe Biden does, bad guys do bad things. Shannon former President Trump Tonight offering his condolences to the fallen Service Members and their families. These noble american warriors laid down their lives in the line of duty. They sacrificed themselves for the country they love, racing against time to rescue their fellow citizens from harms way. They died as american heroes and our nation will honor their memory forever. Shannon we have team coverage tonight. Phil keating is in miami taking a look at the implications for Homeland Security here in the u. S. Jeff paul standing by with reaction from Capitol Hill. Kevin corke here in washington casting a critical eye over the president us remarks this afternoon and Friday Morning donning now in kabul, a City On
18 u. S. Service members. Gunmen and two Suicide Bombers targeted the thousands waited near the Airport Yesterday who were hoping to Escape Afghanistan and the talibans rule. The first blast came outside The Gates and then another attack at a nearby hotel where people were waiting. Isisk, the islamic State Terror groups Afghanistan Affiliate has claimed responsibility for the blast. Earlier in the day the u. S. Embassy warned americans to stay away from the airport, citing an attack. As we showed you, President Biden spoke at the white House Yesterday where he condemned the attacks and vowed to make the terrorists pay. Chief white House Correspondent Peter alexander has more. Reporter days after president Bidens Deadline to end americas longest war, the commander in chief addressing what is one of the deadliest days for u. S. Troops in the entire 20year conflict. These american Service Members that gave their lives its an overused word but its appropriate here were heroes. Heroes engag
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. Its an impossible Task Weve 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. Thats not the way this could work. We have to go out in the crowd. So these marines were out th
Against traveling to the airport unless specifically instructed to by a u. S. Government representative. This follows cnn reporting earlier of a, quote, very specific Threat Stream from isisk against crowds. Cnns Orrin Leiberman joins us now with the latest on this. Reporter anderson, this is specific warning to u. S. Citizens to get away from three gates to the international airport. The North Gate, the East Gate and the Abbey Gate citing security threat. We know the pentagon believes they could well target the crowds around there as an attempted target for them whether that would be through Suicide Bombing or vehicle improvised explosive devices, the pentagon, the u. S. Government, the biden administration views this as a threat and we now see how seriously as the administration races to get people out as quickly as possible. In the span of ten days the u. S. And its allies have moved the equivalent of a pack of a giant stadium out of Kabul Airport. There are possibly as many as 1,50
Aftermath of the attacks. Parents may want children to leave the room before we show this to you now. The videos were about to show are graphic and difficult to watch. The grim aftermath, an apparent Suicide Attack went off outside the hamid karzai international airport and another explosion at the Baron Hotel nearby. Its said that isisk is responsible according to a senior taliban official. The situation on the ground remains volatile. Weve been reporting the threat for an attack from isisk that the u. S. , australia have been warning people to immediately leave several gates into the airport yesterday. Buses full of american citizens, American Green Cardholders and others fleeing afghanistan were sitting for hours and hours outside the gate, not permitted to travel those last few yards into the airport. The culmination of what the president and his top aides had been warning about all week. Every day were on the ground is another day we know that isisk is seeking to target the Airpor