sandra: begin with house speaker nancy pelosi arriving in taiwan, it happened a short time ago for her trip there, raising concerns of how china could, and could still respond. and already beijing issuing a series of threats. hello, welcome, everyone. john, great to be with you. john: happy tuesday to you, i m john roberts in new york. chinese fighter jets flew nearby, the speaker arriving safely but the u.s. and taiwan remain on high alert, as four u.s. warships have been repositioned east of taiwan in an effort to deter chinese action. sandra: chinese state media is reporting beijing will conduct live fire military exercises surrounding taiwan over the next few days, and is warning of severe punishment to the united states. congressional correspondent. china is coming out with really strong words, they are calling this trip by speaker nancy pelosi to taiwan a serious violation of the one china principle, and they are saying it infringes on china s sovereignty, and t
is on this, a lot of fate of this lies in her hands. john: i m puzzled as to where manchin is these days. he said absolutely it s an inflation reduction act, pen wharton said not even close, and then whether he wants democrats to win back control of congress in november he ducked the question and wouldn t say. really weird. sandra: highly suspect. sounds like a suspicious john roberts, it was a fascinating interview with harris, really was. john: and she clapped back at him, too, when he suggested that she didn t want anything good to get done for this country. good on harris. back to one of our top stories. u.s. taking an al-qaeda leader al-zawahri, president biden is being lauded for the operation, but as predicted, afghanistan is
al-zawahri is dead, following a drone strike over the weekend. he had a $25 million bounty on his head, and was sheltering among the civilian population in the capital of kabul. reports indicate he was killed with an rx9 hell fire missile meant to minimize unintended casualties, the first over the horizon strike for the united states since the taliban takeover amid concerns u.s. officials would have difficulty conducting counter terrorism operations in afghanistan. the compound where the strike took place is being roped off by the at all been, with local journalists being denying information on the killing of the leader. he joined al-qaeda in the late 1990s and served as osama bin laden s deputy until he was killed in 2011. he was part of the decision making process from 9/11 to the u.s.s. cole to american embassy bombings. a significant counter terrorism,
says madam president. i mean, generally for dreaming big, you need to express what it s going to take to get there, but i guess i m getting older, i kind of think a little sensational sometimes, maybe they need a push up, other times maybe need to be told they are not the greatest in the world. the grades have to back up the hard work. thanks to everyone, here is america reports. sandra: one of the world s most wanted terrorists is dead. killed by two missiles in the first successful airstrike since the u.s. left afghanistan. al-zawahri was osama bin laden s right-hand man and architect of september 11th attack. john: he was living in kabul, and chuck grassley and general keith kellogg how this impacts the overall war on terror.
al-zawahri, ending a two-decade long manhunt. he took over the terrorist network following osama bin laden s role in 2011, and helped plan september 11th. it took out him without harming anyone else or the building. not in a remote tribal region in the mountains of afghanistan, but in a wealthy district in the capital city of kabul. chuck grassley in just moments, but first trey yingst in jerusalem. run back over the events of the last few days and what happened on the balcony in afghanistan. trey: john, good afternoon,