important moment for the u.s. to tell viewers what you are learning. this is about to be a major announcement that we hear directly from president biden. we expect that president biden will be addressing the nation around 7:30 tonight. is senior administration official told us this was a counterterrorism operation of a significant al qaeda target. we are learning this was in fact, ayman al-zawahri. the senior official also noted that the successful operation did not result in any civilian casualties. keep in mind, this comes about one year after the u.s. withdrew fully from afghanistan. of the last military plane leaving afghanistan in august of last year. this will raise questions that perhaps, the president, himself, will address on how the operations were conducted, given no u.s. military prison in afghanistan. also, what the assurances are that we hear from the president, himself, on the note that there was no civilian casualties. the president has been isolating becaus
very clear, too, that no one, no one, including a president of the united states, is above the law. by the way, today is the six-year anniversary of that speech in indiana. happy anniversary to the president, as the fbi goes through his documents this morning. what a long road it s been. you know, he actually, i guess, in 2018, willie, he passed a law. he signed a law that actually made the protection of classified material even stronger. that is a good thing to do. it is a good thing to do. he said in the campaign law and order party. he was going to protect all classified information. so says it in the campaign. willie, he actually passes legislation. kept his word. he signs it, comes into law. that the penalties for not protecting classified information going to be even tougher because of hillary clinton s emails. yeah, remember the context of that speech six years ago was all about hillary clinton and the emails and the private server that she had.
and the school district police chief pete arredondo told dispatchers that they didn t have the firepower to confront the gunman. but at that point there were 11 officers, two with rifles at the school. all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, everyone the ones that didn t have the ballistic shields, they should have just gone in. that is what their protocol suggests. children were left in a room scared to death, calling 911 and yet no one went in. let s bring in law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow, former secret service agent to president obama. i want to get your reaction to the new images of officers standing in the school hallway with rifles and ballistic shields, just 19 minutes after the gunman entered. their protocol was to rush and take out that threat and that didn t happen. what is your sense of what happened there? listen, it is actually inexcusable that ever since this incident almost every single thi
and the supreme court on guns and with the supreme court going one way and congress going the other and we will tell you what it means for gun safety in america. and breaking news overnight from ukraine, after weeks of fighting, the ukraine officials say the forces have to withdraw from a key battleground in the east. we ll have the latest. all right. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, june 24th. i m sam, in for jonathan lemire. hearing number five into the january 6th, focussed on donald trump s efforts to get the justice department to legitimize his bogus claims of voter fraud, that includes his relentless pursuit of an attorney general who would go along with his election conspiracies. the pressure top leaders faced when they refused to do so and how those leaders band together and then prevailed. and pardons for the roles in the election scheme. first, trump s nonstop efforts to get the department of justice to sign off on the big lie. here
it take to get formula on store shelves? good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, may 17th. i m jonathan lemire. we start in buffalo, where president biden is expected to renew calls for national gun reform legislation during his visit there today. according to a white house official, the president will ask congress to take action against quote weapons of war, and curb access to guns for people with serious mental illness. this trip comes as information continues to surface about the alleged shooter in saturday s attack. a review of hundreds of pages of internet posts, nbc news reports the 18-year-old suspect was planning the attack for months and intended to continue the violence at other locations had he not been arrested. two possible plot, a black church in buffalo and an elementary school in the city. the author of the posts wrote that they were targeting the school because of its predominantly black student body which they found by looking up tes