great to have you with us. we begin with some news from the war in ukraine. russia says its troops have fully captured the ukrainian city of bakhmut. kyiv has denied those claims, but if true, it could mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15 month war. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last hours, the russian news agency interfax has said president putin congratulated his troops and the paramilitary wagner group for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine had said its units were still fighting in the city. meanwhile, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has been on a whirlwind tour in an effort to drum up support and weapons for an expected counteroffensive against russia. it s been a busy few hours for zelensky, touching down injapan on saturday fo diplomatic talks touching down injapan on saturday for diplomatic talks with many of the gathered heads of the g7 nations. that includes prime minist
good morning, and thanks for being here. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes today on the southern border with title 42 set to expire tonight. tens of thousands of migrants are already waiting to enter the u.s. once the covid era restriction ends at midnight. u.s. troops at the border setting up our wire. we ll have a live report from mexico about the situation coming up right up. and later, trump taking center stage yet again, this time in a prime time town hall, and it feels like we ve seen this script before. will you commit tonight to accepting the results of the 2024 election? yes, if i think it s an honest election absolutely i would. plus, congressman george santos fighting both a legal and political battle. the house speaker now saying he won t support santos for re-election. santos has pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges. does santos have any future in the gop? and the nearly 20-year-old case of natalie holloway s dis
patalings and his son hunter s business dealings. earlier today, the house oversight committee issued a subpoena for an fbi documentbr . according to a whistleblower, the document links president biden to a, quote, criminal scheme involving, quote, money for policy decisions when he was vicee wa president . we still don t know what other countries were involved, but sources say it was not china.wht what s als io interesting is thm document is from june 2020. that means months before a presidential election, the fbi may have known of joe biden s potential involvemens joet in his son s business dealings. so did they bury this story?d we and if true, n we now havend the several examples of democrats in the media moving the goalposts to protect joe biden. t to prote so first it was the laptop. wasn t real, then it was . but there s no connection to joe. what will be their excuso e? g s now, a man a has been following this all as highly is a u.s. senator from the state of missouri
delivered and this terrorist leader is no more. people around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer. al zawahiri, the second in command to osama bin laden during the 9/11 attacks as well as the attack on u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1998 and the uss cole in 2000, killing 17 service members, took over the terrorist organization after bin laden s death in 2011 and was killed on the balcony of a taliban-linked safehouse in kabul, afghanistan. to those around the world who continue to seek to harm the united states, hear me now. we will always remain vigilant and we will act and we will always do what is necessary to ensure the safety and security of americans at home and around the globe. i ll be joined this hour by white house homeland security adviser elizabeth sherwood randall and intelligence committee chairman senator mark warner for more on this major national security development and the future of al qaeda and the taliban. a
killed in a safe house in kabul. it was carried out by a cia drone strike. and president biden met with his national security team to discuss the operation. you can see in this photo, just by the president, a wooden box on the table that contains a model of the safe house used by al zawahiri. national security council john kirby spoke about the intelligence that led them to find al zawahiri, after a two decades long time. yeah, just an incredible amount of painstaking work went into this. and i want to be careful about the intelligence stream. but basically, we were able to track the movement of mr. zawahiri s family to kabul. trying to understand both the habits of this individual, but also confirming that this individual was in fact mr. zawahiri. and once we had that in place, then it was really a matter of presenting the case to the national security team and to the president, of course, for the president to make a decision and then, he obviously made that decision. it