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so alex, did the u.s. have any help on the ground from sources who were not americans? reporter: well, alisyn and victor, that is a terrific question. it s one of the many that we still have about how this intelligence was gathered and of course how this culminated in the killing of ayman al zawahiri. it s certainly possible that there were afghans acting as intelligence assets or agents on the ground, but for now, the administration is not detailing what they call the sources and methods that helped them gather this intelligence. it s very safe to assume that much of this intelligence was gathered from the sky through visual methods, drones and satellites as well as through what s known as signals intelligence, basically intercepting communications. but this was a months-long process. the white house saying today that this took most of the year, and president biden was first briefed in april when there were indications that zawahiri had moved not just to afghanistan ....
Neighborhood of kabul, but his family did, and his family was tracked, despite the fact that they were using what are being called terrorist techniques to hide their pattern of life. that was not successful. they were tracked. zawahiri was spotted on the balcony of that home, and that is eventually where he died. there was the final green light was given by president biden for a very precise strike on july 25th. that strike happened sunday morning, kabul time, when a drone fired two hellfire missiles. now, the white house is saying that they have visual confirmation of his death, but they do not have dna confirmation. take a listen. we do not have dna confirmation, brianna, we re not going to get that confirmation, and quite frankly, brianna, based on the multiple sources and methods that we have gathered the information from, we don t need it. we have visual confirmation, but we also have confirmation through other sources and methods. reporter: they got that ....
sean, just last week the former acting secretary of homeland security, kevin mcaleenan warned of the specific threat of white supremacy as a growing dangerous element in our society. take a listen to what he had to say. one of the most significant emerging threats over the past years has been domestic actors adoption of terrorist techniques to inspire and direct individuals often via the internet to carry out acts of terrorism and targeted violence. of specific concern has been an increase in racially and ethnically motivated violence, particularly the threat posed by violent white supremacist extremists. sean, how dangerous has this resurgence in pro-white racial rhetoric become? look, this has become one of the most significant and most dangerous threats to american citizens that we ve seen in quite a long time. you know, don, in the previous administration, toward the end of the administration, we began to see a slight rise in the instances of white supremacist groups and t ....
Agents, they conducted that arrest on friday, thwarting again this very dangerous threat to the community, don. shawn, just last week the former acting secretary of homeland security, kevin mcaleenan warned of the specific threat of white supremacy as a growing dangerous element in our society. take a listen to what he had to say. one of the most significant emerging threats over the past years has been domestic actors adoption of terrorist techniques to inspire and direct individuals often via the internet to carry out acts of terrorism and targeted violence. of specific concern has been an increase in racially and ethnically motivated violence, particularly the threat posed by violent white supremacist extremists. shawn, how dangerous has this resurgence in pro-white racial rhetoric become? look, this has become one of the most significant and most dangerous threats to american citizens that we ve seen in quite a long time. you know, don, in the previous administration, towa ....
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