zawhahiri is stomach churning.ch he was the ideological master behind behind the turn of al qaeda andnd groups like that toward indiscriminate mass murder of civilians anywhere, including muslims, all in the name of islamic piety and how he got there, we now, looking back at it, it seems like a straight shot, but if he dropped in at any time of his biography, you wouldn t have known, trained as a doctor, as a surgeon, a respected family in egypt, born and raised in cairo. by the time he was 15 years old he was a committed radical who wantedic to impose islamic theecacy by force all of 15 yearsfo old. when islamic militant disassassinate egypt s president anwar sadat at a military parade in 1981, he was one of hundreds ofe islamic radicals who was tried and imprisoned and tortured for years in egyptian prisons. while there he became an informant, supplying information on hisin comrades, and released fromra prison in egypt in 1948 d even more radical than when he had gone in an
speaker. at home we re watching a major test of former president trump s influence over the republican party. in the five states where voters are headed to the polls today to vote in primary elections, all eyes will be on the slate of candidates who the former president endorsed and have embraced the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen. will that message resonate with republican primary voters? today will also be a big test for these three house republicans who were among the ten who voted to impeach the former president. will they survive after taking a critical stand? one of today s biggest tests will happen in kansas where abortion rights are on the ballot for the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. we ll have the latest into the massive implications of that vote. let s get right into it with nbc s steve kornacki at the big board. steve, what are you looking for this morning? a couple things, jose, you touched on. i think this referendum in
another countdown, five days until the senate s scheduled august recess, about a week for democrats to stick to leader chuck schumer s stated goal of passing a monumental health care and climate bill, including key components of president biden s legislative agenda. just a week. now schumer could always slide his schedule to give democrats more time, time to figure out if he actually has the votes that he needs because we still don t know where kyrsten sinema stands. she s been silent on the issue so far. our best insight to her thinking comes from joe manchin, far from a guarantee. manchin says there is lots for sinema to like. she has a lot in this bill. she s the one who negotiated basically and no one changed the medicare negotiations. and they thought that wasn t. and she got involved and that was great. i support that. she s been very adamant and clear on no tax increases. i take that very seriously. i feel the same way. so i m hoping that when she reviews and sees it
familiar face calling the investigation a witch hunt and kept up the attacks on the fbi and serve of mar-a-lago. we re gting new details and a clearer picture of the timeline around what happened there. sources tell nbc news the fbi agents arrived at mar-a-lago on monday at 9:00 in the morning. the secret service was given a heads up 45 minutes to an hour before the search and agents left around 6:30 p.m. the former president s legal team said they were in discussion with the doj as early as june about records stored there. one trump attorney said the fbi removed a dozen boxes from a basement storage area and say a search warrant indicated the fbi was investigating possible violations of laws related to the handling of classified material. politically, we re seeing the republican party coalesce around the former president. a source close to trump called it a complete circling of the wagons. we ll start with the mounting legal troubles for the former president. ken is back and
help ves rans sickened by toxic burn pits. i m used to the lies. not used to the cruelty. can the bill pass this week? veterans secretary denis mcdonough will be here. with some world leaders falling short, will it be too late? i ll ask the new australian prime minister, anthony albanese, about his ambitious plan in his exclusive first u.s. interview ahead. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is wondering if political tides may be turning. president biden is back in isolation this morning after testing positive with a rebound case of covid after being treated with paxlovid. though his doctor says he no longer has any symptoms. this time biden does have some good news to mull over. first, the bipartisan passage of a bill to boost competition with china on the manufacturing of semiconductors. and second, a sudden possible deal in congress on a massive plan to begin to tackle the climate crisis, high drug prices and address big companies tha