safe house. the president stressed his death sends a message. 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. administration is now warning that the taliban could face consequences for harboring al say al-zawahri. president biden meeting the situation room discussing the operation to kill al-zawahri. let s bring in john harwood at the white house. this was in the works for months and months, remarkable intelligence gathering operation given it had to be taking place largely from outside the country since the u.s. doesn t have boots on the ground there. tell us what you re learning. reporter: meticulous plan very tightly held. it began when they began to point tort ayman al c-zawahri being in kawabul. he was known to be there in april. they began to build a profile of his movements and how they could strike him. you saw the photo from july when they finally had taken to biden
rhetorical aggressions and threatening language, there are concerns of course, as salina is saying china could take action here whether military or in the economic sense. the other thing the biden administration is doing right now is trying to publicly bring the temperature down a little bit with the secretary of state saying yesterday, look, there is a former speaker of the house who has visited taijuan, albeit that was 20 years ago, jim, so ping wasn t even president at that point and this is a very significant trip for house speaker pelosi to be making of course, given these concerns but what the biden administration is trying to say here is that this isn t unprecedented. lawmakers have visited taijuan, the one china policy is still in place and they are calling on china to not escalate the situation with the secretary of state saying very clearly that if there is a crisis here, that