on this new day, justice has been delivered. president biden announcing the leader of al qaeda, the world s most wanted terrorist has been killed in a drone strike. and nancy pelosi is set to visit taiwan amid escalates threats from china. and dozens of people are dodd and hundreds more missing in rising water on the way. plus, a january 6 rioter who was turned in by his son handed down the longest insurrection sentence today. his son joins new day, ahead. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is tuesday, august 2nd. one of the master planners behind the 9/11 attacks is dead. president biden said ayman al zawahiri was killed by a precision drone strike in afghanistan. he was bin laden s trusted lieutenant and took over al qaeda s leader after bin laden was killed in 2011. biden said the strike that took out al zawahiri was the result of extraordinary persistence and still by u.s. intelligence. zawahiri was targeted when he stepped out on
you tell us, did they mess up by not including her? thank you for having me. i don t know if they messed up by not including her. the strategy on senator schumer and the senate leadership part is a little perplexing to me in how they rolled it out and allowed the caucus to learn about this via a press release. with some provisions that were not included in the house-passed bill or the white house framework last year. that said, i know senator sinema, i know the metrics she s using to analyze this proposal, and i think it should be perhaps both annoying to some in washington, but heartening that she is not going to give into pressure from either side. she s going to take a substantive look at what this proposal would mean for everyday americans. when you look at this proposal, i mean, from a revenue standpoint, it raises more than it spends. through corporate minimum tax, prescription drugs, the interest loophole and energy security climate change, affordable care