major-league baseball announcing the 2025 all-star game will return to atlanta two years after pulling the game from the state in response to the voting law that the governor signed into place, something he noted today, is still in place in the state of georgia. thank you for joining us tonight. cnn newsnight with abby phillip starts right now. a perfect storm of anger and ignorance, that s tonight on newsnight. good evening, i m abby philip in washington, go to tiktok right now and try searching letter to america or osama letter or osama bin ladenand you won t get any hits but if you search those terms before midday yesterday, you would have seen something strange and something hateful. americans, reading from a two decades old screen from the terrace behind the 9/11 attack. influencer types saying their entire worldview had changed. 14 million people watched other americans essentially say, a homicidal maniac sounded like he made sense. the letter was warehouse on the gua
it i saw this up close. it changed my life are. i ve been involved in national security and foreign policy because of 9/11. when i left the army, i stayed on top of it, i immersed myself in it. i m only on television because of that commitment to keep america safe. but i am concerned about going forward and as are other people in the military and in our intelligence services. we have the wherewithal to still deal with this. what we need is vigilance and the kind of resolve and determination that was reflected on 9/11. it was absolutely amazing. as you mentioned, bill, the national resolve and resiliency that this country displayed, ma bin laden didn t osama bin laden didn t understand america. he thought this would crush america. that s why he attacked our symbol, our economy, our military strength, democracy at the capitol which failed, of course. he thought we d be crushed bit. little did he know that we would
the s.e.a.l.s made the decision to withdrawal. more information is certain to arrive in the coming hours. we don t know, for example, to what extent the s.e.a.l.s were moving through the village. did they have to lev equipment behind? were they able to get back to either helicopters or small boats they came in on? there s no indication at this point of any s.e.a.l.s wounded or killed in the incident. all indications are they got out of there. we talked about this a little bit earlier when they go in on dangerous missions. their biggest issue really is getting in as fast as they can and getting out as fast as they can. they are at significant risk the whole time they are on the ground. when they practice for these missions, as we saw on the raid to capture osama bin laden, you want to spend as little time on the ground as possible. the most important thing after
shabaab? caller: it s hard to say. killing osama bin laden didn t end al qaeda but if you kill a lot of bin laden s people, you have a case where the bench is it s hard to replace people in their 30s or 40s with a lot of experience and certainly with al qaeda central, a policy of decapitating the leadership is being devastating to the actual al qaeda central group in pakistan. similarly with al shabaab, take out leaders, one of them was an american citizen who was killed probably by al shabaab itself in september. you are seeing the group is losing ground, they are having signs of quarrels that led to the death of one of their leaders now you have this
many groups in libya and syria. what you are dealing with around the world since 9/11 is, you know, al qaeda 2.0 is what a lot of people call it. back in 2001, you had osama bin laden, you had the group of men around him. they have largely been dealt with. you can see the eruption of al qaeda organizations throughout the middle east, throughout africa, mainly in areas where governments are poor and people are not looked after by their governments, there s a lot of poverty and ability for them to recruit constantly a new population of young men to their movements. getting the al shabaab guy, it will do something for awhile. i don t think anybody is predicting it s the end of al shabaab or al qaeda in syria. special operations are working around the world every single day and missions being carried out. the reason these two are