whirlwind visit to taiwan, meeting earlier today with the island s democratically elected president, in defiance of provocative live fire drills from china s military. and also this hour we ll talk to kentucky governor andy beshear about the search and rescue efforts as the death count rises from this week s historic floods. i ll speak to senator kirsten gillibrand about the passage of new medical benefits for burn pit victims finally. and we are on sinema watch, waiting for that 50th democratic senator to signal whether or not she will support the democrats new compromise bill to cut prescription drug costs and combat climate change. but we begin with politics. joining us now, nbc s dasha burns in kansas. nbc s vaughn hillyard in aarizona. and nbc s yamiche alcindor in st. louis. the dream team. dasha, first to you. this amazing turnout. the defeat of the amendment, the kansas state constitution. it s now becoming a rallying cry for democrats and abortion rights supporters
led to what biden called a precision strike targeting the most wanted terrorist. we make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. zawahiri s death comes 11 years after the u.s. killed osama bin laden. at one point he was bin laden s personal physician. jasmine wright has more on biden s decision to take him out, and ben wedeman joining us with the details on the strike itself. let s start with the strike. it was months in the making. what more do we know about the operation itself? reporter: basically it was done by a drone that fired two hell fire missiles on to the balcony of the building that ayman al zawahiri and his family were living in in kabul, it happened at 6:18 a.m. local time in kabul. and this obviously, yes, as we ve heard time and time again, this was an operation long in the making. but what is interesting is that until now it is
doesn t go far enough. my conversation with the parns of austin tice. this mark marking ten years since the american journalist banished in syria. their new plea to president biden. a u.s. drone strike in afghanistan is believed to have killed one of the world s most notorious terror masterminds wanted in the deaths of hundreds including americans abroad u.s. officials say ayman al zawahir laden was successfully targeted in a weekend drone strike in afghanistan. to this day he has been on the fbi s most wanted list for his role in the 1998 bombings of u.s. embassies in tanzania and kenya that killed 224 people including 12 americans also a key figure in the 9/11 attack. president biden addressing the nation tonight about the operation. kelly o donnell is at the white house with late details lester, the past saturday night 9:40 p.m. eastern saturday night the u.s. government used an unmanned drone and hellfire missiles to target the third floor balance coney in down on i
bill barr. during his deposition, the former attorney general told the committee that he repeatedly told trump that there was no credible evidence of election fraud. i made it clear that i did not agree with the idea of saying that the election was stolen. i told the president this was dumb. i did not want to be a part of it. this is what led me to decide to leave when i did. even though a number of his own top administration officials debunked election fraud conspiracies, trump hospice persisted. weeks following the election, he lashed onto the idea that pence would be able to overturn the results of the election by choosing to certify the votes of certain states. this was an illegal plan that was spearheaded by john eastman, who also played a role in the pressure campaign to get the vice president to delay the certification of the 2020 presidential election. this pressure campaign and intense focus on what the vice president would do on january 6th, resulted in the viol
the padres playing great as well. such a great division. can you believe the angels collapse? yankees initiated that and sent them into a tailspin. really? they lost 12 or 13 in a row before they finally won. loaded with talent but struggling a bit. stock futures are on the rise as investors anxiously await the federal reserve s action to tame surging inflation. this as president biden lashes out at republicans for blocking his economic agenda. msnbc s stephanie ruhle will join us to break it all down and the challenges ahead. and we walter isaacson with us. we were talking about presidents and inflation before. jimmy carter, i mean, you know, he had volcker, volcker tamed inflation. right. but there were so many global forces, external forces, you know, we like to think in america that presidents control the economy. there s so many external forces right now. especially now. especially now with two years of covid, the pent up demand. i understand bi