so joining me now the legendary journalist sam donaldson, and cnn military analyst and retired general. general, of course i'm going to start with you. cnn reported earlier today there are concerns about security around the airport in kabul have increased based on, quote, a very serious threat stream from isis-k about planned attacks against crowds outside the airport. now this ominous warning tonight. what's your assessment of what's happening there on the ground? >> yeah, it's something i've been talking about for a while on cnn and various programs. this is all part of a neo operation, you're going to have different phases of the operation. we saw the first couple of days being the chaotic phase and it moved out and we were starting to get a lot of folks out. we're now in the time when the enemy is about to get a vote or they're trying to get a vote. and that's why the embassy issued this warning tonight. i don't think this is the end of the evacuation, but we're going to go into another phase here pretty soon if we can contain any threats to the airfield. we're going to go into a p