safe house. the president stressed his death sends a message. no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. administration is now warning that the taliban could face consequences for harboring al say al-zawahri. president biden meeting the situation room discussing the operation to kill al-zawahri. let s bring in john harwood at the white house. this was in the works for months and months, remarkable intelligence gathering operation given it had to be taking place largely from outside the country since the u.s. doesn t have boots on the ground there. tell us what you re learning. reporter: meticulous plan very tightly held. it began when they began to point tort ayman al c-zawahri being in kawabul. he was known to be there in april. they began to build a profile of his movements and how they could strike him. you saw the photo from july when they finally had taken to biden
china into seeking reunification by paril of the peace and supplier of semi conductors that just referenced it s a chinese nationalism and considered taijuan a part of china forever except when occupied by japan. that s a position never disputed by the united states. the objective is not the american objective is to prevent conflict, not to adjudicate further between about taijuan s status unde st status understood. we re watching the plane landing, the american flag on the tail is nancy pepelosi s ple
house. that was seen earlier. she will in a second set foot on tiawanese territory. the first time a speaker of the house visited taijuan since 1997. that was newt gingrich at the time. will ripley, he is in taipei for us. tell us how taijuan has been preparing for this. reporter: well, they certainly haven t been telling us anything publicly on the record reportable that we can site. we have piecing together checking information in various local media. here is how we can kind of assume and believe based on our reporting, we have the foreign minister greeting pelosi and she may do a few more things at the airport.
rhetorical aggressions and threatening language, there are concerns of course, as salina is saying china could take action here whether military or in the economic sense. the other thing the biden administration is doing right now is trying to publicly bring the temperature down a little bit with the secretary of state saying yesterday, look, there is a former speaker of the house who has visited taijuan, albeit that was 20 years ago, jim, so ping wasn t even president at that point and this is a very significant trip for house speaker pelosi to be making of course, given these concerns but what the biden administration is trying to say here is that this isn t unprecedented. lawmakers have visited taijuan, the one china policy is still in place and they are calling on china to not escalate the situation with the secretary of state saying very clearly that if there is a crisis here, that
that just arrived in the chinese capitol. it s understood tiawanese officials will greet her as she lands. quick question for you before we go to capitol hill. does taijuan want this visit? do taijuan officials welcome the speaker s visit? that s a great question, jim. i think overtly certainly welcome it. taijuan has almost no diplomatic partners and the u.s. is the most important partner so any sign of support by the united states for taijuan is welcome in principle. on the other hand, they do not wash to bait the bear. they understand that choir dma ha china has a particular proserspective with taijuan and caused a crisis in the taijuan straight 25 years ago and so there are i think given the