this evening. justice has been delivered. and this terrorist leader is no more. after carefully considering the clear and convincing evidence of a location, i authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield once and for all. one week ago, after being advised of the conditions were optimal. i gave the final approval to go get him! biden described al-zawahiri, as a terrorist to quote, carved a trail unquote. of violence against u.s. citizens, reminding that he was the mastermind at the bombing of the uss coal in 2000 which killed 17 u.s. sailors. the fbi just now updated its most wanted terrorist status for al-zawahiri with the word deceased. al-zawahiri was killed in a precise strike as the president on a balcony of a safe house with two hellfire missiles according to a u.s. official. no american personnel were on the grounds in kabul at the time of the strike. no civilian casualties either according to the president. the death of al-zawahiri comes
Justices seem divided as they debated trumps Immunity Claim for his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Youll hear their remarks with one justice raising concerns that shielding president s from prosecution could turn the oval office into a seat of criminality. Plus, this morning, former National Enquirer publisher david pecker is set to return to the stand in the hush money case with Defense Attorneys continuing their crossexamination. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, april 26th. With us, former white house Director Of Communications for president obama, jennifer palmieri. Cohost of the podcast how to win 2024. Rogers chair and the american presidency at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham. And our legal analyst, former litigaor and msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin. Former u. S. Attorney and msnbc contributor barbara mcquade. Good morning to you all. Lets dive right in with yesterdays historic day at the Supreme Court where the justices he
Greenlighting an investigation into biden without any evidence of wrongdoing. And in moments, ill speak with the throne and mccarthys side, that is republican Congressman Matt Gaetz who is threatening to oust the speaker, in part over this issue. But first, some context. Republicans want to know if President Biden benefited from his sons business dealings. And that is a legitimate question. But the doj did spend here is investigating hunter biden, and so far there has been no evidence that his father did benefit. Meantime, House Republicans and their investigations have presented zero direct evidence to contradict that. Also, mccarthy is to invest now unilaterally without even a vote, even though Kevin Mccarthy himself from 11 days ago disagreed with that method. Quote, if we move forward with an Impeachment Inquiry, it would occur for a vote on the floor of the peoples, house not for a declaration by one person. And just four years ago, mccarthy attacked democrats for doing the same.
Thank, you abby. That is it for me here on cnn prime time. Cnn tonight with laura coates starts right now. Great discussion, abby, as always. Good evening everyone, im laura, coates and welcome to cnn tonight. The man hunt is continuing. We are about to, weeks yes two weeks in and continuing to heat up even tonight. That is a prisoner now armed even more dangerous, so what is happening, tonight we have a live report with all the up to the minute development coming up. But i want to begin with Kevin Mccarthy, or should i say speaker mccarthy. Unilaterally ordering an Impeachment Inquiry into president joe biden. Even as republicans have yet to actually prove any allegation that he directly profited from his sons foreign Business Deals. It comes as the speaker is under enormous pressure from farright members of his own party, threatening to kick him out of the speakership if he does not move fast enough. These are allegations of abuse and power, obstruction, and corruption. They warrant
[laughter] but we know by the time that it s all said and tone, iowa, you have shocked the nation. by all indications we are going onto new hampshire victorious. [cheers and applause] i imagine that at some point the results will be announced and when those results are announced, i have a good feeling we are going to be good doing very well in iowa. we are going to walk out here with our shared delegates, we don t know exactly what it is yet but we feel good where we are right now. look, so it s onto new hampshire. our union is stronger than donald trump s and it s been a year, our union will be stronger than ever when that one man is replaced by one very persistent woman. we know there s delays but we know there s one thing we are punching above our weight. maria: officials have said they expect to release the results chaos domestic party reporting later today but have not given a time frame just yet, joining the no official results due to conversation is pollster