no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. there are hundreds of unaccounted for people minimum. it was all water surrounding us. it was very scary. dramatic warning from china after sources confirm that nancy pelosi will visit taiwan during her trip to asia. there is no reason for beijing to turn a potential visit consistent with long standing u.s. policy into some sort of crisis of conflict. it is tuesday, august 2, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington. joe biden claiming a major win in the war on terror after a drone strike killed ayman al zawahiri. the 71-year-old took over as leader of the terror group after u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s killed bin laden in 2011. he was involved in planning the 9/11 attacks and as well as the u.s. embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania. the drone strike happened sunday morning local time in that afghanistan after months of surveillance and planning, two hell
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
that s something we ll see if he addresses more clearly. can you do this out of the kabul airport? some people are saying you need to retake the bagram air base or someplace us to have a second processing facility. the big one for me is whether and how you get americans from all over afghanistan to c karzai international airport. that s a question. parts of kabul that are not safe, how do they get to the point of evacuation? one of the repeated messages from the u.s. embassy is they can t guarantee safe passage. why are the french, brits and germans able to get into kabul and get their set zens to the airport and we re not? the line from the pentagon is we don t have the the real line is we don t have the authority
guys down and get them the first time and put them into gitmo and the determination for president obama to empty gitmo. we re down to 39 now. and we said we said we are going to let you out. but they promised to stay in qatar. i m pretty sure they broke their promise almost right away. they were hailed as heroes. and who knows what intelligence they were able to pick unjust a little on rouhani the guy in the second picture we showed. he was called one of the very worst prisoners at gitmo. he was there for a while from 2002 to 2007. he was released after promising authorities he was returning to afghanistan to, quote: care for his sick father. he said he was just a shop keeper. he spent four years in the intelligence service in kabul. he got 26 left. tell me if i am wrong here. i fear if we want our it americans back in country they are going to say we need a few more from gitmo out in average if you want those arteries open. and if you want that airport to
we set out to do to keep america safer from islammists were not accomplished. we have seep islammic forces become more powerful than before. and we re seeing results, even in cases where we did have a militarily necessary response to 911 and afghan. but when afghanistan to, yemen, we have seen results i don t think many americans are pleased with. so with washington to be a repeat of iran, while criticizing the president is totally incongruous to me. tucker: isn t this is the same people, pushing us to war met middle east. and we have to accept the populations coming to our country. it s a very strange concept, where we can enforce our own boards but redraw the borders of every country in the middle east and create democracy in the