americans with president biden declaring the mission a total success. we will explain how it was carried out, also, china is now threatening a military response over how nancy pelosi s expected visit to taiwan, the u.s. is warning beijing not to turn the trip into a crisis. we will go live to the white house to speak with john kirby. it is primary day across five states with major implications for abortion rights and election integrity. meanwhile donald trump stirring up confusion in missouri after an endorsement that has leading candidates in the senate primary both claiming the former pete president is supporting them. good morning and welcome to morning joe on tuesday, august 2. good to have everyone with us. good to have you with us. every september 11th for 20 years we have reflected either personally or on air about what was lost on that day, who was lost and you talk about people on the street, you talk about loved ones that you knew, it was deeply personal for me
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
residential health in the area of kabul. he was in the capital of afghanistan. he spent time in united states, and in 2021, released a video to celebrate america s withdrawal from afghanistan. people have been saying he was dead. but here he is. in his video, he is heard being fake, quote, let us not forget the warriors of islam stabbed america in its heart. which america had never tasted before. today, making his exit from afghanistan, broken, deceased defeated, 20 years of war. in the years to follow, he continued to lead al qaeda he prays terrorist to targeted americans. he prays the second lieutenant of the saudi air force who shot and killed three navy s.e.a.l.s in pensacola just in 2019. according to zawahiri wanted poster, the reward for the most wanted terrorist with up to $25 million. there are things we do not know tonight. details of how they found where he was, how they got it. we do know, 25 years on the list, $25 million, they say, the ward. outside the white ho
there could be more classified documents after the national archives already retrieved 15 boxes. so, the fbi was reportedly tipped off by someone who led them to execute the search warrant. attorney general merrick garland faces increasing pressure to say something publicly about why the fbi conducted the search. the calls are not just coming from outside the justice department. cnn has learned some officials within the doj believe the department should provide a public statement. they argue internally the silence is harmful to the department and the public s interest. that s in part because donald trump and his allies have filled the void with angry speculative rhetoric. to that point, the ex-president puts out baseless accusations today that the fbi, quote, planted incriminating material before searching his residence, trying to cast this as some sort of conspiracy against him. trump or his team have a copy of the search warrant. normally it does list the items to be seized
after he became the first current or former president ever to be hit with a search warrant. and just hours after becoming the first ever to invoke his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination, which is a pillar of civil liberties, but which he used to say only mobsters do, until he took the fifth and saying what only mobsters say when ever they re searched, in this case suggesting without anything at all to back it up, that federal agents planted evidence when they searched mar-a-lago on monday, which then quickly became a republican talking point, or in the case of lindsey graham, senator graham, who sits on the judiciary committee and who clearly should know better, just another toxic idea to smile and not along with. we know they doctor evidence. we know they plant evidence. sure. we know they hide evidence. we know they lie. we know they leak. i mean this is not anything new. this has been this has been years they ve been doing this. we can t just say, oh,