zawahiri in afghanistan. happened over the weekend. the news is breaking, confirm now. i can tell you what you may know, the president will be addressing the nation if about 90 minutes. the white house saying president biden will speak out on this. it is a fast moving late-breaking story, and for that reason we go directly to some of our experts on this. kristen welker and retired four-star army general barry mccaffery. wristen, what are we learning from the white house about something that apparently already occurred but is breaking news tonight? it certainly is. first we learned that president biden was going to speak at 7:30 eastern time to announce an operation against a senior al qaeda leader, and based on conversations with two sources familiar with the matter, my colleague and i have been able to confirm that that leader was ayman al zawahiri, the leader of al qaeda, took over after osama bin laden was killed. this is significant. this is a raid that was conducted ov
whatever one thinks of that particular president, the fact does congress does not typically question or subpoena presidents. this ain t england. the legislature does not question the president the way you would see in the sessions they hold with the legislature. but tonight the news is that might change. there s solid reporting that the house is eyeing trump himself as the january 6th committee is meeting behind closed doors, weighing what you see here the certainly costly potential clash over trying to make trump testify as well as pursuing an interview with pence. now, going to trump would surely take a subpoena and then a court battle over it. the wall street journal reporting all this. and trump spent his whole career resisting these kinds of moves. we know that. sometimes he prevails. sometimes he loses. there have been court losses that forced him into the taped deposition see here on your screen. that only came after he was forced into that situation. that was also
leadership, not criminal law, to be clear, and these hearings covered a lot of ground, from bizarre unhinged meltdowns to a president throwing dishes with ketchup dripping down the wall, leaving some americans reflecting on how sloppy it must have been whenever trump came through dripping. drip drip. now, those details admittedly offered some color. they did get people talking, and that happens by the way in real trials, too. you have to prove the elements of the crime, but over the course of the trial you tell a story and try to appeal to jurors with true factual detail, some of which are important, and some which are just memorable. but the hard evidence here is of something much more grave. a multiprong coup that looks to have been proofed up with a lot of damning and significant testimony, not from critics, witnesses who were in a different city, not from people in washington, d.c. who heard