♪♪ hey, everybody, good to be with you, i'm yasmin vossoughian in for katy tur. we have so much news on this primary news both at home and overseas. house speaker nancy pelosi ignoring threats from china and landing a couple hours ago in taiwan. we'll have more on that coming up. also today, we're learning new details about the u.s. drone strike that killed the mastermind hind the september 11 attack. al qaeda's top leader ayman al zawahiri.

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 really came down to timing. to making sure that all the conditions were right. >> wow. >> that we could get him and that we could do so without hurting any civilians. >> just so you understand, al zawahiri co-founded al qaeda, assuming leadership of the terror organization back when bin laden was killed back in 2011 during the obama administration. really for the last decade, he's continued to call for attacks against the united states and its allies. joining me now nbc news chief correspondent peter alexander. and a schedule council and also a special assistant to george w. bush, michael allen. peter, let me start with you, brings up to date what we're learning about the planning that went into carrying out this mission. >> so, yasmin, you detailed this well, that photo from july 30th

is significant because as you say that wooden box on the screen demonstrated the model presented by the cia to president biden. on the left is williams burns, the cia director. the president ultimately giving the green late, making the final decision to go ahead with this operation last week. it took place late saturday night here, early sunday morning there, in kabul. zawahiri had been living in this apartment building, he was hit when he was on the balcony of his third floor apartment. one of the most upscale neighborhoods of kabul. really just blocks away from the presidential palace there. the u.s. said no civilian casualties came about this operation. the bottom line, though, this was a major victory for the administration. one they're touting right now because they say it is further proof the u.s. does not need to have its troops on the ground in afghanistan, because of the capabilities it has with the technology and drones.

over-the-horizon capabilities, as they describe them to target terrorists in afghanistan. but the new questions raised by why the top leader of al qaeda was right there in the heart of kabul. >> right. >> his family having moved in, according to senior officials earlier this year, just a matter of months after the u.s.' chaotic withdrawal from that country. there was an agreement made in february 2020 between the united states and the taliban leaders, what's called the doha agreement, where in effect, the taliban said they would not allow -- would not provide any safe harbor to terrorist groups. the facts that these folks weren't there, that this man was there at the time as describeded by the secretary of state antony blinken as a gross violation raises questions whether or not their other leaders on the ground as we speak. >> we're going to address that in our conversation straight ahead, an interesting point in all of this, michael, i want to get your reaction, we know about al zawahiri, and the history, he

co-founded al qaeda from ahmad, one of the masterminds, both here and overseas as well terror attacks. i mean, we have been tracking al zawahiri, each president and thereafter, have been tracking al zawahiri, for more than two decades at this point, dating all the way back to the bush administration which you worked in. give me your reaction? >> what a triumph for the united states and for the central intelligence agency, our officers have been worked steadfastly for decades, as you correctly say, looking through topography, trying to listen in on what terrorist conversations indicate about the whereabouts of senior al qaeda leaders. and so, this is really a tribute to the united states that we will stay on a particular matter, and we will find you, we'll track you down.

>> leif, address for me the point that peter alexander just brought up, and that is this idea that kabul now under taliban leadership was essentially a safe harbor zone for a killer, really, the leader of a major terrorist organization that killed thousands of americans, living in plain sight in the captain capital city of kabul, in a safe harbor in an area that is for the fortified and protected. >> absolutely, i think this is one of the points that had the united states concerned when it conducted its withdrawal back in august of last year, and the idea that al qaeda would revive and flourish again after it had become quite fragmented as a group. so, the fact that he was there in kabul, under potentially -- or under the protection of the taliban and with association

haqqani network which is now part of the governing body in afghanistan, i think first things first, nobody ever said that the taliban were honorable. i mean, they are still a terrorist organization. >> right. >> that is now back as a de facto governing body. but, two, i think what the united states has demonstrated here, that while they did withdraw from afghanistan, that they kept their finger on the pulse. and that they are sending this demoralizing strike for al qaeda to say, no, you cannot revive whether now or ever. so, i would say that the united states sending a pretty powerful message we do not forget and we do not forgive. >> yeah. you certainly bring up really good points, michael, i want you to weigh in on what laiht had to

say, and it was a similar conversation with the terrorist found in pakistan. that the pakistani new about the whereabouts of the osama bin laden, and yet, did not share those whereabouts with intelligence. so, we're in such of a situation now with the taliban now. should they be held accountable? >> i think they should, president bush said, famously, after 9/11, if that you are harboring a terrorist, we're going to treat you just as if you are a terrorist. i think that's been broadly accepted through the administrations. and if i had to bet, having worked on the national security council what we're going to do about afghanistan, how we're going to respond to the taliban apparently sheltering this particular al qaeda terrorist is got to be one of the top things on the agenda. i don't think we'll do an air strike, but it would certainly be among the options the

president would consider. you mentioned tony blinken's statement yesterday, this is certainly completely contrary to all of the understanding that we had with the taliban regarding our withdrawal. they cannot be a safe haven for terrorists of an international renown like al qaeda. so, they have to hear from us on this particular item, so that they just don't become emboldened over time. >> peter, any plans that we're hearing from the biden administration as to how they may act when it comes to taliban learning of them now harboring someone like al zawahiri? >> that's a good question, i asked that very question of senior officials here over the course of the day and for now they're going to let the strike speak for itself. as you heard from laith, hevery

effectively communicated this is demoralizing, this should be rattling both al qaeda and to the taliban at this time. >> and, laith, one final point, it brings under the fact that united states pulled out offage afghanistan, they certainly have eyes and ears on the ground. when you take out someone like al zawahiri, it speaks for the air but also the human intelligence on the ground until afghanistan. >> yeah, let's remember when united states was withdrawing from afghanistan, isis-k, launched a pretty powerful bombing killing americans and others and the united states vowed they would be brought to justice and held accountable. so the understand had to deploy its intelligence resources and employ whatever it has in its toolbox to keep its fingers on

the pulse in regards to al qaeda, but also to the rising threat that is isis today since most of its enemies, quote-unquote, aren't in the picture today so the united states absolutely has to keep the finger on the pulse. but i say one final thing, this is not a victory dance for us just yet. al qaeda has established pretty powerful groups in places, and on the continent that will work on targeting u.s. personnel overseas. so this is only just a small win. >> peter alexander, laith and michael allen, appreciate it. we're going to live to kentucky where more than 30 people died and a major disaster. and arizona voters going to the polls to cast their ballots. one donald trump candidate is

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welcome back, everybody. we are seeing a sharp response from china to house speaker nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan. her delegation landing in taipei just a couple hours ago. state-run media now reporting china's military will in fact conduct more military drills encircling taiwan later this week. the chinese minister of foreign affairs in a statement, it impacts the diplomatic relations between china and the united states. pelosi's trip comes after specific repeated warnings from china, the self-proclaiming taiwan of its own. the latest visit by a high-ranking official in

decades. nancy pelosi writes this, we cannot stand by as the ccp proceeds to threaten taiwan and democracy itself. joining me to talk more about this, admiral james stavridis, he's the author of a new book "to risk it all: nine conflicts and the crucible of all this decision." admiral stavridis, great to see you. talk about the trip that speaker pelosi has made to taiwan. >> well, first and foremost, china is a little unpredictable at this moment, the good news with the 20th party congress coming up this fall, president xi who will certainly be annoyed coming up in the five-year term ahead for china. he's not looking at the bad news

for a fight for this point. the bad news, this would give him cause to do something and countervailing technology is he needs to look strong. it could be in the air, at sea, in cyber. they have a lot of latitude to make things very difficult. the visit comes at a time when the u.s. is trying to focus on ukraine and russia. why we would want this moment to be one where we set a high-level delegation at this level. once every 25-year level delegation, i don't think it was perhaps the best use of this speaker's time. >> so, it's interesting that you bring up ukraine, right, kind of a full-circle moment as we've been coming ukraine for the last six months or so, and the war there. and the fact that china hasn't necessarily gotten involved as of yet. we know they're the main producer of drones, and they

have not handed over those drones yet to russia. something that russia needs with the war. "the new york times" with this op-ed, and want to the have you weigh in. this ukraine war is so not over, so not stable, so not without dangerous surprises that can pop out on any given day, yet in the middle of all of this we're going to risk a conflict with china over taiwan. provoked by an arbitrary and frivolous visit by the speak of the house. and by an urged xi, in any phone call with him, say doing not get involved with it and could the visit push him over the edge. >> unfortunately, i think it could, because in the list of options of the chinese responses i gave you, and now you're asking me enlisting military,

which would be aviation, more jets, more exercises at sea. combat wide fire exercises, units of near the united states seventh fleet, but also the taiwanese navy. cyber, there is broad against the electric grid in taiwan. or go against is something very specific, say, the air control computer right about the time that the speaker's aircraft is lifting off from the airport. but in addition, they could make, if you will, a more diplomatic response would be, yes, president putin, we'd love to sell you very high-end drones. i think friedman has it about right in sketching, the downside is pretty apparent. i just don't feel the upside here. what the taiwanese need, i'll close with this, not a high-level as admirable as

speaker pelosi is in every regard. but that's not what they need right now. they need more technology, more training, more weapons. we need to try to think of getting ahead of the potential military actions here. that's what's required right now in my view. >> admiral james stavridis, as always, we thank you for joining us on this. we're going to have to wait and see what happens, of course, over the next 24 hours during the speaker's visit in taiwan. it's likely to be an incredibly eventful one. thanks for joining us, sir. as always, good to talk to you. majority leader chuck schumer said he will put the pac back on the floor, the burn bill that veterans have been pushing. and now we have mitch mcconnell telling nbc news that he expects it's going to pass. we're still waiting to see what is going to happen with the reconciliation bill between chuck schumer and joe manchin. and the only hold out kyrsten

sinema. and joe manchin planning to speak to her this afternoon. are you going to be in that room, ali? >> i'd be happy to. >> tell us first, reconciliation, and let's talk first, manchin saying he's going to be speaking to sinema. where are we? >> that they are set to speak, but this is not the only thing in the senate. yes, we're waiting to see where this comes down in the legislation but there's also the parliamentarian piece of this. and senator schumer gave an update a few hours agatha all of the relevant pieces of the legislation are with the parliamentarian, including the budget, and they're working for the legislation and that they are at this point, on track to take up this bill at a later point this week. that's the schedule they've been

on. there are a lot of senators here and, frankly, reporters who are expecting a bit of weekend work to descend. and it's two-pronged where is sinema on this and how quickly can they work through pass. >> the weekend work. let's talk pac, they're trying to sink the legislation of people who could help save this country and now he think it's going to get through what do we know? >> well, look, senator mcconnell told me this yesterday, yes, it's going to pass. but specifically the idea of when it's going to pass. we've been told that this bill could come up as early as this afternoon. there's a holdup right now in terms of how they're actually procedurally getting on with it. effectively, that need all 100 senators to agree that they can

do this in expedited fashion. and the only with if senator schumer if he wants a simple majority threshold, only passing with 51 votes required. it's unclear who's going to get their way here. it's part of the process. it's the hold justifyholdup tha upsetting. >> what if there is no vote today, what's the reaction of these folks out here? >> in -- i think they're framing in terms of their ability to withstand this. i think this is cruel and unusual punishment going on and they've got to end this. >> stewart will talking about veterans outside the building for days now. some of them sleeping on the steps of the capitol or shadow of the capitol keeping the

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when you need it most. ♪♪ all right. some breaking news, everybody, that we're following just motels ago. a major step from the justice department in the fight to protect abortion access in this country. attorney general merrick garland announcing the doj has challenged the abortion ban. >> the united states therefore seeks a declaratory judgment that idaho's law violates the supremacy clause of the united states constitution and it's preempted by federal law to the intent it's in conflict. united states also seeks an injunction prohibiting idaho from enforcing its law against health care providers that provide emergency treatment. >> this is the first justice

department ruling filed since roe v. wade was overruled. from gardner, kansas, dasha burns, and mary ziegler, he's she's one of the leading authors on "the abortion debate." welcome to you both. i want to start with you, mary, first and foremost, if you could lay out what we're learning from this lawsuit, secondly, why idaho. why they're focusing first in idaho. and do we think other states will be following? >> yeah, i think that's quite likely. so idaho is one of the states that has a very narrow exception for allowing a abortion care in medical emergencies. and i think the justice department has taken that and

what is narrated. and we've seen the federal law that look here for patients in emergency situations, rather than them being passed off because of their inability and other reasons. we've seen the reverse side of this in texas. texas has sued the biden administration, because texas sees a conflict between its emergency medical rules and now we see the justice department on the defensive. >> do you see that, mary, happening with other states, they're starting here in idaho and then following. you with other states, other lawsuits to come? >> there's no reason not to. because many states like idaho have narrow exceptions. and some states are thinking about eliminating emergency exceptions altogether. this may be the first step of this kind. >> let's take it local, dasha, you're seeing it play out on the ground there, the announcement

from the attorney general versus what's happening today in the state of kansas. residents are going to vote on this constitutional amendment that could determine the future of abortion rights in that state, talk us through this amendment and what's happening there. and how folks are feeling about it. >> well, yasmin, this is not just significant here in kansas, but those folks voting behind me today are among the first in the nation to actually cast a ballot on this abortion issue. and people here feel that those stakes are incredibly high, whichever side of the issue they fall on. what they're voting on is the value of both amendment. this amendment would strip protections from abortion rights from the kansas state constitution. the power would then be in the hands of the republican super majority in the state legislature to take action going forward so they could potentially enact more restrictions or as many abortion rights activists here fear, a

total ban on abortion. it's not clear what's going to happen if this amendment passes, but what we're lacking for closely here, not only what kansas decides here but how many people turn out. this could be a huge bellwether, yasmin, when many other states are putting this issue on the ballot. here in kansas, they see this in other states as well, there's been a lot of confusion, a lot of confusing information and just straight up misinformation that voters have to navigate in order to get to the ballot box and figure out whether they're voting yes or no on this amendment. and i want you to hear some of the conversations about this from some of the folks we talked to today. what do you think is at stake here today? >> my daughters, their lives, their choices. >> that women have the right to make a choice and work with their doctors to make the right medical decision for themselves. >> lives are at stake here.

i am totally for the amendment, i voted yes. i want babies' lives to be saved. >> i voted yes, i just want my children to always value life. >> reporter: and i'll tell you, yasmin, in terms of just this location here, they tell me, typically, they see about 300 people on a primary election like this. they've already surpassed that. and we still have several more hours to go. so, at least in this polling location, we've seen turnout incredibly high. we've seen that early vote numbers are 200% higher than 2018. people, as you heard there, they're passionate, they're engaged and they want to have their voice made, yasmin. >> a lot to watch when it comes to abortion rights in this country. dasha burns and mary ziegler, thank you as well. we have this long awaited endorsement by president trump. last night, trump threw his

support behind eric. yep, just eric, in a race by, by the way, three erics, two of whom are on top of the polls, eric greitens, and attorney general eric schmitt have both claimed the endorsement, saying, no, it's me. both say they have spoken to the former president by phone to thank him for his support top to make matters worse, trump's team is refusing to provide clarity on this saying the endorsement speaks for itself. and as voters head to poll, the state attorney general who is running for u.s. senate has dismissed what he called this absurd suggestion that hundreds of dead people voted in the 2020 election. in a later to state senate

candidate burn bernadette sand. and with the same accusation, an audit of more than 2 million ballots of maricopa county was led by the cyberninjas, and conducted by supporters of donald trump who believed the election was stolen from them. to be clear, trump had endorsed venture capitalists like masserts. joining me to talk about this, from our affiliate in phoenix, arizona, kpx-12, graham, thank you for joining us, whoa, you've got a busy few hours ahead of you, maybe through the night as well. i know you've been tweeting extensively, kind of the timing of the release of this investigation there. walk us through the timing of it. and this investigation to

cyberninjas, finishing on the eve of this election. >> so, this feels like the big untold story today that is getting buried the primary election which clearly was mark brnovich's attempt. he released the report on the eve of the primary when everybody was running around talking about it. it pops the balloon. it's basically the end to the criminal investigation to what cyberninjas alleged in their report 11 months ago. brnovich gave an interim report. and sands, the ultimate of the cyberninjas, her on her own allowed that so-called audit, prior to the election year to go forward. she declared the end of the investigation. karen phan is going off in

retirement in january. her political career is over. and it appears mark brnovich's political career is also over. polls have consistently showed him in third place in this senate race so he doesn't lose anything by doing this but gets it off his plate. >> so, i'm wondering with the follow-up there, if any of this is trickling down to voters, right? because you've got a lot of folks in the running here, leading their races it seems, get be traction endorsed by the former president, who are election deniers when it comes to 2020. and then you have this report released, saying the exact opposite, essentially saying there's nothing there. and that arizona voters are picking up on it. >> well, i don't know if voters are picking up on it because it kind of got lost in the coverage of the primary yesterday. it just came out of nowhere, he dropped, as he's often done in the past, buried significant

investigations when it suits his purposes. but the thing is now, you have a basically trump slate of candidates up and down the republican primary ballot who are all election deniers. now, they're going to have to find a way to answer that question. so, do you still believe the maricopa county vote was stolen from donald trump in 2020? because there's absolutely no leg to stand on here. and tonight, at the victory parties, those questions will likely be asked. >> i want to play you sound real quick here and have you react, is this our own vaughn hillyard interviewing kari lake that the election is painted. >> you're contending there's irregularity in this election and what point does kari lake say i'm undermining -- say i'm u-

>> all right. so, some back and forth there to say the least. what do you make? front-runner for the governor of arizona? >> i think we've seen this all before in 2020. donald trump doing the same thing, suggesting the election was stolen. dirty tricks can't trust early ballots. kari lake has been talking out of both sides of her mouth for weeks now, ripping the election. it's rigged. it's going to be stolen. and on the other hand telling folks, hey, don't forget to get your ballot in the mail or show

up at election day and vote. a lot of mixed messages from kari lake. i think she's giving herself a little loss insurance if it turns out that she's behind come 8:00 arizona time she can offer the excuse already, right, stolen, can't trust it. we have seen this before, i will just add that maricopa county board chair bill gates, saying what she told me is it's beyond irresponsible. if you have evidence, show it to us now but she hasn't done it. >> graham reznick, good luck. coming up, extreme weather out of southern california where a massive wildfire that began on friday continues to burn out of control. and an update from kentucky as the state braces for yet another deadly round of flooding

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welcome back. so right now, rescue efforts are still under way in eastern kentucky where at least 37 people have died in historic floods. that number expected to rise. governor andy beshear saying rescue crews have saved more than 1300 people so far but there could still be hundreds missing. >> it is absolutely devastating out there. it's going to take years to rebuild. people left with absolutely nothing. homes that we don't know where they are. just entirely gone. and we continue to find bodies of our brothers and sisters that we have lost. >> meanwhile, heavy rainfall, it's not letting up, most of kentucky remaining under flash flood warning, rising temperatures making situations worse.

nbc news correspondent george solis has been there. you've been there george, i wonder how this community is coping with all of this. >> reporter: yeah, it's a one-two punch, right, you have the devastating floods. now you have the heat setting in, water is only receding which is giving away more the evidence of destruction left behind for the people, people just now getting to what's left of their homes, many finding they have nowhere to go. as you heard, the governor say, there's people still unaccounted for. there are people waiting to hear if their loved one has made it through the devastating flood. on the upside, right now, there are cooling centers around the region here to help with people still struggling to get their power back on. there's thousands of outages to help with the efforts here on the ground. you also have volunteers providing food and water to people around the clock which are still displaced.

which, by the way, were in the hundreds earlier. we did speak to a couple people who are displaced, lucky to be alive, including a grandmother who made it out with her grandchildren, take a listen. >> with the water, we had like five minutes to get out. five feet, everything we had. >> it's just you and your two grandchildren? >> yes. >> where are you staying now? >> we've been sleeping in the car. >> reporter: in her car. just lucky to be alive. we expect, we hope to hear more of the stories in the coming days, yasmin. >> yeah, we certainly do, george solis, thank you so much. over to california, crews there battling the raging wildfire near the oregon border which has killed four people so far, the siskiyou county

sheriff's office found six people in a home just hours after firefighters discovered two bodies inside a burned out car. it appeared people inside that car were trying to escape to get out but could not. the kenney fire is taking over the largest so far, burning over 55,000 acres and threatening more than 4,000 structures. it's still zero percent contain. all right. up next, the new evidence obtained by congress that is raising fresh concerns of a dha cover-up of the new deleted secret service texts. we'll be right back. who doesn't love "open"? offices. homes. stages. possibilities. your world. open. and you can help keep it that way. ♪♪

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although uncommon, up to 1 in 5 survivors of meningitis will have long term consequences. now as you're thinking about all the vaccines your teen might need make sure you ask your doctor if your teen is missing meningitis b vaccination. house committee chairs investigating the insurrection a are asking questions after uncovering an e-mail from the security watchdog agency. the inspector general requested all text messages from a around january 6th only to then retract that request five months later. for weeks investigators have been trying to track down those text messages and wondering why the secret service would allow a phone systems migration during such a crucial time period. this latest development

complicating the story even further. the inspector general withheld this knowledge of the missing messages from congress until just last month. joining me now is homeland security correspondent julia ains lee. a lot of questions in here. walk us through the sequence of events. >> sequence of events. even before january 6th, we know that secret service agents were told to hold on to all records that could be consequential to archives and try to store those so they could be archived later. then you have january 6th happen. so reminded to save your text messages. but committees and the inspector general after the text messages too late. there's been this systems migration and they weren't archived. that's what we knew going into this. now we just learned about a new wrinkle in this and maybe the investigatorers aren't able to give as much information or

didn't investigate as well as they could have. because just yesterday, the democratic chairs of two committees in the house said that the deputy i.g. actually stood down on the request for text messages at all. in a july 2021 e-mail, he told a dhs staff member he no longer needed the secret service text messages. the same deputy i.g. then in december said text messages were crucial. you can see this is what he said in july. use the e-mail as a reference to our conversation. we no longer request phone records and text mess anxiouses. in other words, we won't be coming for those. then they reupped that request saying they need the text messages in december and flash forward to just last month telling the committees, we think there's a real problem here because now we can't get the text messages. if anything this does hand a break to secret service. you can see why they might be

confused when they went through the whiplash of whether they needed to provide these text messages or not. one other piece. in between this time, we understand that right when the text messages were lost, there could have been a forensic process that would recover these. instead the inspector general stood down on that and merely asked for the list of what was lost and why it might have been deleted. so it seems now that there could have been more steps taken to recover text messages and to require secret service to hold on to what we now have deemed necessary information to understanding the events of that day. >> i have a sense that you're going to be bringing us more on this in the days to come. thank you so much. appreciate it. that does it for me today. i'll be back in the chair tomorrow. hallie jackson picks up our conch after a quick break. hallie jackson picks up our conch after a quick break. p naturally with an optimal dose of melatonin. and a complementary botanical blend. so you can wake up refreshed.

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