clint watts to cover that. jack, let me start with you. now you're dealing with a known security, clearly a security problem there, getting folks that get cued up to get evacuated. what kind of military options is the president being offered by military advisers to finish the job here? is it more reinforcements, is it change in how we get folks inside the airport perimeter? what are the various options he is being handed by military advisers. >> typically what happens, chiefs will give him as many options as they can think of, including sending lots more troops to secure the area. accelerate the withdrawal with more planes and other people inside afghanistan. a wide variety of options from the ridiculous to sublime. and then they'll make a recommendation. recommendation is likely can't send more troops, that will make the final evacuation of troops much more difficult, but we'd like to see, joint chiefs talking, we'd like to see an extension of deadline of the 31st of august because we're not going to be able to get everybody out by then.

spencer ackerman, clint watts, thank you both for your insights this morning. appreciate it.umar is sitting in for ali tomorrow. you can find me on msnbc every sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. tomorrow i'm joined by mary trump and climate activist greta thunberg. "the cross connection with tiffany cross" starts right now. >>> good morning, everybody. lots of breaking news this morning. but we begin "the cross connection" with that frantic exodus out of afghanistan. now, we're expecting an update from the pentagon shortly and we'll bring it to you here live. new this morning, the u.s. embassy in kabul is warning american citizens to not travel to the airport unless specifically instructed to do so. now, this is due to potential security threats outside the gates. this latest alert comes after president biden responded to questions about security yesterday. >> the military has secured the airport, as you mentioned, but will you sign off on sending troops into kabul to evacuate americans who haven't been able to get to the airport safely? >> we have no indication that they hav

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we still have clint watts with us. clint, to me, this also highlights how much more difficult this air lift is going to be as we get into the final days, as the pentagon starts to, in the term of art, retrograde the forces that have been conducting this air lift, protecting this airfield, to evacuate your rear guard, as it were seems even more dangerous than what they've been doing the last week or so. >> that's exactly right, garrett. from now until the last u.s. force are out, we're in a very precarious situation. admiral tsvaridis was talking about that on "morning joe," and he is absolutely right. we are one moment away from blackhawk down scenario. what we forget is while we hear terms like the taliban is taking control or taking over, they do not control all of kabul. they do not control all of afghanistan. there's many competing interests on the ground. since the u.s. showed up there last week, undoubtedly extremist groups that want to attack u.s. targets on the way out or foreign actors that might want to embrac

clint watts, thank you. >>> there were already calls from the usual war hawks in the republican party for an increased military presence in afghanistan. sabre rattling that not only is the war not over, but now is the time to ramp it up. >> it will take troops on the ground but the military can do it. >> congratulations. the endless war just got fired up again. because if isis and al qaeda's job was just simply to get us out of afghanistan and then we can all live in our respective corners peacefully, you know there would not have been a suicide attack a couple of days prior to the u.s. leaving. >> we are going to expand this operation. i'd put more military in there. i'd get every single american out. and i'd start killing bad guys. >> add to those voices one of the men who is conspicuously silent during and after four years of donald trump stomping all over our allies and international reputation. a man who had a front seat for the surrender deal with the taliban that set the stage for the collapse of the afghan government. the former president's second national security advisor, h.

clint watts. clint, what do we know about the suspect and his motives at this point? >> zerlina, he's a pretty interesting character. you can tell from watching the footage that it was a mix of political grievances, specifically in that livestream talked about president joe biden many times. he seemed to be talking about it, not being a political issue but talking about nancy pelosi and the president. clearly, he picked this location for a reason. the other point is that it speaks to the power of the insurrection. many months later, this is not a second it incident around the -- this becomes a magnet essentially for people who have anti government views. that's clearly what he. had separately, the one you could also seemed to tell from his rhetoric and when he was talking about was that he was a troubled individual. he clearly is under a lot of stress. talked quite a bit about getting back and speaking with his family. his thoughts were often rambling and incoherent. so he's under some sort of mental stress, he did not have an actual device even though he was making l

clint watts is back, now a fellow at the policy and research institute. three are contributors. betsy, let me start with you. i know you have fantastic reporting i want to get to, but elizabeth newman is a lifelong republican who came to her criticism of donald trump in a very painful way. she talked about it on this show often. it really came down to her life's work as a person working around the policy of extremism. to hear her articulate that the threat is exacerbated, violence against all of us is exacerbated by the seemingly sanctioned conduct of one of the two political parties is harrowing. >> that's right. and she really had a front row seat to this in the final months of the trump administration. she gave me an on-the-record interview shortly after leaving the department of homeland security where she detailed the unsuccessful efforts, largely unsuccessful efforts she engaged in to try to get the trump white house to take this threat seriously. the way she laid it out was that trump and the folks around him didn't want to talk about it, didn't wa

joining me now is clint watts.s on a lot of these things particularly in the digital space. after we saw the incident yesterday, it was a bulletin of this, and we have a situation in afghanistan where there is fear of the rise of international thunderstorm and a domestic threat. what concerns you? what is concerning to us right now? >> chuck, absolutely. it is domestic extremism at this point. if you went out today on social media you would see calls for anti-mask protests, anti-vaccine protests. people being told they have to get a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate. this is the third incident that we have even at the capital just this year. this is really the tipping point as we head into fall. part of the reason we didn't see mass shootings or mass attacks last year. that dynamic is changing and we have intense political partisanship and you have elected officials like mo brooks last night seems like they're denying that this is siding wit. >> it is a surprise. and i want to make a comparison to what bernie sande

i want to bring in clint watts, distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute we need to understand about isis-k? >> i think the most important part is that they are one of the remnants after the islamic state, as we knew in syria and iraq, actually stuck around, and if anything, maybe grew a little bit. this is going back to about 2017, '18 as the islamic state was being pushed out of mosul and into syria and ultimately being dwindled in syria. what we also need to know is that they have many enemies, meaning, yes, they want to harm the united states, but they also want to harm the taliban, but it's a very fluid and dynamic space in terms of these extremist groups. in afghanistan and particularly with isis-k, many of the members are former taliban, particularly from the pakistan side. this is a chaotic stew. allegiances vary. and there are different generations there. al qaeda is more the older generation of what we know from 9/11. isis-k is much younger. and by being much more young, they are also more violent. >> air strikes from the u.s. and afghan governme

as a former fbi special agent, clint watts is at the foreign policy research institute. r of "messing with the enemy, surviving in a social media world of hackers, terrorists, russians and fake news." clint, what do we know about the suspect and his motives at this point? >> well, zerlina, he's a pretty interesting character. you could tell right away just from watching the footage it was a mix of political grievances, specifically in that live stream talked about president joe biden many, many times. he seemed to be talking about it not being a political issue but only talking about nancy pelosi and the president. so clearly he picked this location for a reason. the other point is it speaks to the power of the insurrection. many months later, this is now the second incident around the capitol where we've seen people show up. this becomes like a magnet essentially for people who have anti-government views. it's very clearly what he had. separately, though, what you could also seem to tell from his rhetoric and what he was talking about is he was a troubled individual. he

thanks. >> and clint watts, i know you're standing by. they know who he is and they know according to pete williams something of a criminal record in the past and we don't know details on that. they said according to pete that he was antigovernment in his affect and from north carolina. what are they trying to do now in terms of figuring out how best to negotiate with him? >> andrea, i think some of the good news is they do know a significant amount about this individual this gives ability to negotiate something else and it's very difficult if you don't know anything else about the person to try to engage them in a way to de-escalate. if you know that this person has government views you can start to address those and try to build some sort of a bridge to de-escalate the situation. separately, though, we need to be asking why did he pick today? is this just a random act or i'm sure the fbi is very focused right now on if it is an anti-government view, is this part of a larger collective group in north carolina or elsewhere that's watching

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terrorism analyst and retired atf special agent jim cavanaugh and msnbc national security analyst clint wattsbi special agent. pete, bring us up-to-date with the latest you've learned from police. >> so this has been going on for about an hour and a half, andrea. it happened when the driver of a black pickup truck stopped the vehicle in front of the library of congr

. >> the former fbi agent clint watts was called to testify before the committee. >> follow the trail there is been more dead russians in the past three months that are tied to this investigation, who have assets in banks all over the world. they are dropping dead, even in western countries. >> so much of this intrigue and violence may seem very far away. that when nbc news consultant paul joyal was shot just a few miles from the capitol, he and his wife immediately thought it was a hit. a big reason? the timing. >> it's four days after of accused the president of being responsible for the horrible murder of litvinenko, on your network. >> in early 2007, joyal appeared in a dateline report on the litvinenko case. >> did putin ordering? >> did he know it. can't say that. i would find it hard to believe that this information would ever, has not filtered its way to the top. >> just four days later, he was almost murdered himself. do you think the related? >> i don't think there's any doubt. >> people out in the general public say, oh, that's russia, it's never going to happen here. >> bu

and clint watts, former fbi special agent, and a distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute. good evening and welcome to you all. jim, i'd like to start with you, as someone who never misses any of your posts, i am a ardent follower of yours. i start with my condolences to the core and military families. military friends of mine have been having such a hard time even before today's news hit, as i know you have. i hope we can stress that there are so many souls alive today because of these marines and service members, who were there for us and on duty. and to you, having served multiple tours, talk about where this happened, if you would, and talk about the mission from here. >> thank you for having me. there is a saying in the marines, there is no better friend and i think that is what we are seeing now. with what these service members have been displaying for weeks and days, that there is no better friend. especially when you see them on a humanitarian mission, like we are seeing now. the reports on the attack on the hamid karzai international airport are

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so here with us to talk about it, clint watts, west point army veteran, former fbi special agent ando let's do what you do best. that is threat assessment. tell us what you know about this new isis k that we're just starting to hear about. it sounds like a fat burning dietary substitute you see on instagram. it is indeed very serious business. biden is working about them attacking the airport. are the taliban worried about them and other sub terrorist groups within their nation? because after all, at some point they have to join what is called the community of nations. >> that's right. when we think about the taliban versus u.s., you're looking at two parties that have a shared interest in the u.s. leaving. with that, that's why we're seeing basically some peaceful negotiations at this point. the taliban are playing somewhat nice. the wild card in all of this is isis. when we've heard of isis, the islamic state picking up in iraq, we see the affiliates branch out in a similar way we've seen al qaeda perform. isis and afghanistan was one of those stronger ones that emerged at the time

ken delanian has been digging into this story, and also john brennan, and clint watts who worked as consultantthe fbi counterterrorism vision. good to see you all. ken, i want to start there. the taliban security chief is a u.s. designated terrorist, and yet we are relying on them for security. >> it is an awful situation, chris. the united states doesn't have a lot of good options now. it is not that we are relying on the taliban, more that the u.s. will take good intelligence about terrorists anywhere spies can get it. it may be in the taliban's interest to provide information about isis-k. now, the irony is you mentioned and we have been reporting, the taliban head of security in kabul is himself a terrorist. kalil hakani, he has a $5 million reward on his head from the state department. he is the brother of the founder of the hakani network, extremist brand of the taliban that runls an organized crime family. unlike the taliban, the hakani network is designated a terrorist organization. they kidnapped and held americans, have ties with al qaeda and pakistani intelligence. chris, this under

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. >> joining me now is clint watts, msnbc national security analyst and distinguished research fellowrch institute. welcome to you. what is your reaction to what you just heard from lieutenant byrd? >> alex, one of the most interesting things having watched january 6th unfold live and then having watched since those officers, if someone hadn't shot earlier, knowing from my own training when you see a model of people rushing you like that and your mission is to defend the members of congress, that someone wasn't shot and killed earlier in that, that they showed such restraint, i think at that point where you listen to the lieutenant there and he is talking about his experience, he did rely on his training. i think he did exactly what his training would have taught him to do. anything else in terms of these excuses you sometimes hear from those trying to defend what was going on there is absolutely ridiculous. there were direct death threats against the vice president of the country, the speaker of the house. you know, to think that he did anything other than what he was supposed to do

joining us now clint watts, former consultant to the fbi counterterrorism division and msnbc nationaln levinson, a reporter and producer for oregon public broadcasting who was on the ground in portland in the middle of it all yesterday. jonathan, i want to start with you before we get into these longer-term big picture questions. just give us a picture of what happened this weekend in portland. >> there was a rally on the outskirts of the city. the proud boys were branding it as the summer of love. counterprotesters showed up and they moved throughout multiple blocks of the city. exchanged volleys of mace and paint balls. one reporter was thrown to the ground. her phone was smashed. the proud boys trapped one man in his truck, destroyed the vehicle, maced him, physically beat him. it was very violent over the course of about an hour and there was no police intervention. >> i want to ask you about that because there were questions in portland yesterday. they appeared to take a more hands-off approach with the exception of the firearms arrest that we mentioned. was it a concerted strate

senior washington correspondent for "the washington post," and co-author of "i alone can fix it" clint watts, former consultant to the fbi counterterrorism division and now with the foreign policy research institute. all msnbc contributors. but first let's go to nbc pentagon correspondent courtney kube. courtney, you asked general mckenzie about what the u.s. is doing to prem for future attacks. here is what he said. >> the forces we need to protect ourselves there, i'm always in a constant dialogue with the secretary. if i needed anything else, i would be talking to him immediately. i think we have what we need to protect ourselves. let's talk about the threat streams. very real threat streams, very, very -- what we would call tactical. that means imminent could occur at any moment and they range from rocket attacks. we know they would like to lob a rocket in there if we could. we have pretty good protection against that. we have our anti-rocket and mortar system, the gun systems that those of you who have been out there are familiar with effective against these kinds of attacks. we are wel