-led strike carried out by a c.i.a. drone and c.i.a. intelligence who led them to al-zawahiri. >> bill: jen and steve and trey you wonder who steps up next. al-zawahiri stepped up when we took outlawed laud in 2011. john kirby was on the brian two hours ago and said it proves that our over the horizon capability can work, meaning we're not in the country, we're looking from afar but still in the region. how well do you know or how well should we understand what and how intense our over the horizon capability is at the moment? >> i think you are making a good point, bill. this strike really but rests the argument for over the horizon war. you can do war remotely like you can do so many things in our world now remotely and successfully. what you can't do remotely is rebuild a country. aid groups have left afghanistan. veils are coming back on. professors have left the country. you can't build a nation remotely. a victory for remote war but the boots on the ground to build the country, aid groups are not going back to afghanistan. >> steve

c.i.a.ors about president putin's belange." and as far as we can tell meas blank. >> his virility. >> sanity. >> sanity. why do you say that? >> he seems crazy to me. >> describe this body to me. >> it looks built. >> built? >> yeah, i feel like he hits the gym. >> describe vladimir putin's body. there are a lot of rumors about president putin's blank? >> i want to say penis, but that wouldn't work. >> i guess his health. >> his health. why did you say that? >> because i heard people think he may have some type of disease and he's not being shown anymore. >> wow, where did you dig up this? correct answer! there's been a lot of rumors about president putin's health. but as far as we can tell, he's entirely too healthy. that's what the c.i.a. is saying. does this guy look entirely too healthy to you? >> no. >> why not. let's move on to our celebrity round. ryan gosling is playing ken in the new barbie movie. when asked about the part he said, "it's the role i was born to play, i have this blan

documents labeled "h.c.s.," referring to "human confidential sources," stood out to former acting c.i.a. director mike morell. >> the ones that are most concerning to me are the ones that were marked h.c.s., which is a marking that indicates that information was derived from c.i.a. spies overseas. >> reporter: the affidavit underscores the alarm about the possible vulnerability of trump's waterfront property. a secret service source tells cbs news that it is a private club, with protection, but limited background checks. the affidavit goes on to provide a glimpse into the justice department's sources, and who might have witnessed potential criminal activity at mar-a-lago, noting the department spoke to a "significant number of civilian witnesses." in order to protect them from intimidation or from being publicly outed, the florida federal judge and federal prosecutors agreed on the extent of redactions. the f.b.i. agent who wrote the affidavit also said there was probable cause to believe that "evidence of obstruction will be found" at trump's property, as well as "contraband, fruits of

let's bring in cbs news senior national security contributor and the former acting director at the c.i.amike, how significant is this in course of the history and in terms of terrorism right now? >> john, from an historical perspective, this is very significant. zawahri was one of the individuals behind the 9/11 attacks so this is another significant blow to those individuals who attacked us more than 20 years ago. from a current day perspective, this is the leader of one of the two largest terrorist organizations on the planet, al quaida, the other being isis. so while they don't pose the same threat as a decade or 20 years ago, this does take a leader off the battlefield and will, you know, will to some degree disrupt that organization and force them to come up with new leadership. >> dickerson: and what does this tell us about the relationship between the taliban and al quaida? >> so this may be the most interesting point here, right -- he was in kabul, he was evidently at a significant kind of housing complex. so, for me, it underscores that the relationship between the taliban and a

the c.i.a.arge. we're a global service tracking threats all over the world. iran's nuclear program or north korea, terrorism, china. whatever the threat of the day is we have to be there globally detecting the threats so they won't visit our shores. policy is a different matter. there is a bandwidth with this administration with deal with only so much. they wanted to pivot from a policy standpoint to china. the threat with the shortest fuse continues to be terrorism. we left behind a failed terrorist state in afghanistan. al-zawahiri strike, as important as it was, it just demonstrated the extent to which al qaeda and taliban are intertwined. safe haven exists in afghanistan since 9/11 and a clear and present danger to our country. >> dana: thank you for your thoughts this morning. we appreciate his expertise as always. >> bill: al-zawahiri was removed. >> dana: a little thing. nancy pelosi got a lot of attention last week because she went to taiwan. a lot of questions that were posed to her abo

and then searched his home that number has climbed to more than 300, containing documents from the c.i.a., the national security agency, and the f.b.i. trump, who is considering a 2024 presidential run, continues to attack the probe, and cast it as politically motivated in a motion earlier this week. the justice department has respond bide saying it had probable cause for the search. >> presidential election is more than two years away. this doesn't immunize him into a criminal investigation into this mishandling and unauthorized retention of properly marked classified documents. >> reporter: the political fallout remains uncertain. many republicans rallying to trump's side, others far more muted about trump's legal fate. today, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said, "this is an unfolding episode. we are all watching." norah. >> o'donnell: interesting. robert costa for us, thank you. tonight, communities in texas are slowly beginning to recover following the historic and deadly storms that caused massive flooding across much of the region. the storms have moved into the lower missi

meanwhile the c.i.a. is up in a tree, "with a shark's body. did you get that, boys.." razor blade missile-- that's especially genius, because if it hits, you kill the target. but even if it missed him by a little, he gets a really shitty haircut. ( laughter ) that's just as good. no one is going to be loyal to a guy with a bowl cut. i will say, when you see stories like this, when you see stories about what america is capable of, this is where you realize there is really no excuse for the amount of domestic terrorism in america. plbecause al-zawahiri lived all the way in afghanistan in some random safe house in the middle of nowhere, and america knew what time of day he liked to go out on to his balcony. but when a white supremacist posts on facebook he's going to murder everyone and buys an ar-15, everyone goes, "there was no way to stop this. if only he liked balconies." and i know some people are saying, "who cares? america killed al qaeda's leader, but al qaeda isn't even in the game anywhere. this is like take out tom from myspace." that's not the point. the poi

for more on this former c.i.a. chief of station dan hoffman fox news contributor.t i want you to talk about. coming up soon is this big international meeting where the two leaders, biden and xi, will meet. and you wonder what could happen between now and then especially as xi fights for a third political term? >> i think part of what we're seeing right now is to set the stage for that meeting between president biden and xi in november. what china is trying to do with regard to taiwan is isolate taiwan diplomatically. they've been trying to do that for years by denying taiwan any sort of recognition and trying to induce other nations around the world to avoid economic and strategic ties with taiwan. that message that china is delivering an aggressive response to a delegation of peace is one designed not only for the united states but for the region as well. china wants to make it clear there is a major price to be paid for any commercial or strategic links with taiwan. >> bill: markey leads this groou. it happens all the time. it is not announced. it just happens. s

he was from the c.i.a. >> how does maga and trump fit into all this? >> well, trump, '88, j.merica is in a bad place." >> 146. >> what does 146 mean. >> "let's go brandon, 146." "let's go brandon" is 146. >> and so is "america is in a bad place?" >> yeah, let's go brandon. >> do we want to connect those two? >> well, we are connecting it. that is connected. >> it does feel connected. >> does it feel good. do you have goosebumps yet? >> the boys magaites were turning the conspiracy talks up to letter "k," which is 11, but all that talk made me hungry. hello! good! i'd like to get a slice of pizza, just a-- just a slice of pizza, no symbolism in that, just a regular old slice of pizza. do you have any square slices. >> are you anti-triangle. >> if you get rid of that trianglal corner that would be great. see you at the midterms. i have goosebumps already. i can assure you, this is my lunch. it has nothing to do with pedophilia. >> trevor: thank you, jordan klepper. stay tuned, because when we come back, akin omotoso will be joining me on the show. you don't want to miss it. ( a

doctored documents from the c.i.a. indicating that carter page was a c.i.a. asset and they changed it to carter page was not a c.i.a. asset. i know the people at c-span will believe the ridiculous story that some low-level lawyer at the f.b.i. decided on his own to change it, but when you have people like eric swalwell who is sleeping with a chinese spy and talking about the dangers to law enforcement, i have a question about that. if people are really out there threatening f.b.i. agents online, why don't they just track down the i.p. addresses of these people that are doing this and go and arrest them. or is this just something else that the f.b.i. is pretending and making up? host: tony on our republican line, bedford, texas is next. caller: hey. really love c-span. just still can't get it in hd in texas. first thing, little off topic. i'm sorry to do this but people need to stick to the topic at hand and not just vent. we are trying to have a discussion. anyway, back to the assault weapons. i think you have a loot more cases -- a lot more cases of assault

state department is warning americans overseas to be on high alert after the c.i.a.al-zawahiri over the weekend. it was a drone strike that took him out. also reigniting debate over president biden's strategy of afghanistan. it appears the taliban was once again sheltering a big time terrorist. a new op-ed titled al-zawahiri evidence a tactical win but also a broader strategic loss. here is senator chuck grassley. >> we know not only president biden was wrong a year ago, but he -- we also know the taliban is not keeping their word that they won't be a safe haven for al qaeda. with his killing, we know that they are a safe haven for al qaeda. >> harris: senator grassley and others had warned us they won't keep their word, they are oef the taliban. biden believed them. john kirby trying to walk back the statement biden made last year to justify pulling the u.s. out of afghanistan. watch. >> president biden said what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al qaeda gone? >> in a major way al qaeda was not playing -- let me finish. they weren't playing a ma

president biden is tapping a former c.i.a. official to serve on his intelligence advisory board.yst and among former officials to disputed or down played original reporting about the laptop story during the weeks leading up to the 2020 elections. listen. >> this looks like russian intelligence. this walks like russian intelligence and talks like it. this effort by rudy giuliani and the "new york post" to cook up dirt on joe biden looks like a classic russian playbook disinformation campaign. >> gillian: let's bring in jimmy failla host of fox across america on fox news radio. let's talk about facebook for a second. they're insisting to anybody who will listen they have this amazing plan to keep disinformation completely out of the run-up to the mid-term elections. please assess for us, jimmie. you have deep expertise on social media. express to us in percentage terms the possibility they are going to get this right. >> i have a better chance of winning the miss universe pageant. that's probably a bad analogy. these days i could compete technically speaking. >> gillian: i think yo

lists of c.i.a. sources. the alien technology that keeps paul rudd from aging! ( laughter ) now, in order to conduct the search, the f.b.i. had to present a search warrant and in order to take anything away, they had to give mar-a-lago an itemized receipt of everything they took. the former president could release both of those documents, and the mystery and intrigue might be cleared up. but, evidently, he doesn't want that, because as long as we don't know anything, he's free to say anything. so this afternoon, attorney general and elf on the shelf who has seen too much... merrick garland, announced that he has asked the court to release the ex-president's search warrant and the receipt. ( cheers and applause ) yeah, release it! he wants to release it all. the ex-president has till tomorrow to file in court to stop that from happening which would mark the first time he's ever declined the offer of a full release. ( audience reacts ) really... really... we found the line. ( laughter ) here's a bit of good news. after republicans like ted cruz had tried to block

reportedly, the c.i.a.m with a drone strike while he was on the balcony of his house at 6:18 a.m. on sunday. that's so early. he was drinking from a mug that said, "don't talk to me until i've had my hellfire missile." ( laughter ) and not just any hellfire missile. it looks like al-zawahri was taken out by a hellfire rx9 missile, which is unique for not having any explosive material. okay, that sounds humane. what does it do? evidently, right before it reaches you, it deploys six retractable blades, earning it the nickname the "flying ginsu." al-zawahiri did not survive, but the potato he was holding... julienne fries. ( applause ) and this-- this isn't the first time our government's used as-seen-on-tv technology to thwart our foes. i mean, if you've seen "zero dark thirty," then you know our boys got bin laden with a slap chop. president biden confirmed the strike in a special tv announcement last night and he made it clear how meticulously it was planned: >> this mission was carefully planned to rigorou

c.i.a. drone strike on a house in afghanistan has killed al-zawahri, ending a two-decade long manhunt. he took over the terrorist network following osama bin laden's role in 2011, and helped plan september 11th. it took out him without harming anyone else or the building. not in a remote tribal region in the mountains of afghanistan, but in a wealthy district in the capital city of kabul. chuck grassley in just moments, but first trey yingst in jerusalem. run back over the events of the last few days and what happened on the balcony in afghanistan. >> trey: john, good afternoon, al-zawahri is dead, following a drone strike over the weekend. he had a $25 million bounty on his head, and was sheltering among the civilian population in the capital of kabul. reports indicate he was killed with an rx9 hell fire missile meant to minimize unintended casualties, the first over the horizon strike for the united states since the taliban takeover amid concerns u.s. officials would have difficulty conduc

.-6, the c.i.a., and this leonardo group. >> stephen: it's as simple as that!e on the night of the murder because he was with-- i don't know yet. it will come out at some point. anyways, i blame the leonardo group. or donatello, michelangelo, or raphael. their pay-off was pizza. their codeword: cowabunga. heroes in a halfshell." (classic italian melody) ♪♪ ( cheers and applause ) kinzinger summed up how ridiculous the former president's conspiracy theories were: >> this is one of the best examples of the lengths to which the president trump would go to stay in power-- scouring the internet to support his conspiracy theories, shown here, as he told mr. donaghue in that december 27 call, "you guys may not be following the internet the way i do." ( laughter ) >> stephen: on the toilet, with the safe search off? ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) when acting attorney general rosen refused to interfere in the election, the former president turned to assistant attorney general for the environment, and high school principal who's had it with this rap music, jeffrey

. >> stephen: so what dedo you think pompeo, head of c.i.a., secretary of state, before that a congressman, okay. what do you think they're most interested in talking to him about? >> i know what i'm most interested to hear from him, so i assume it's where they are. it's discussions of the 25th amendment. as you remember, i reported in the book that he had-- you've got that. "betrayal." >> stephen: "betrayal." let's move some paper. there you go. >> i reported he and steve mnuchin, the most senior people in the cabinet -- >> stephen: state, treasury. >> yeah, had a conversation on january 6 about the 25th amendment. the 25th amendment, which basically means that the cabinet can remove the president by declaring him mentally unfit. that's quite a conversation for mike pompeo, who has been totally and thoroughly loyal to donald trump and steve mnuchin, same thing, to have. so i would suspect they -- >> stephen: so, you broke that they had the conversation? >> yeah. >> stephen: in here. what would you like to ask him as a follow-up about that? >> well, maybe why didn't you do it? would be one

this was a c.i.a. drone. they were able to spend weeks if not months loitering.don't know if they had help on the ground at that point as they were beginning to hone in on the target over the previous weeks and months. but they certainly had overhead drones, overhead surveillance, possibly even satellites may have been intercepting communications. so the real lesson is they didn't need the boots on the ground. the u.s. had always said it would be difficult, but they could go against a target, a terror target inside afghanistan even without having soldiers on the ground there. difficult but not impossible. and, of course, with this mission proved is that it was very possible. >> absolutely. jeremy diamond, kylie atwood, barbara starr, thank you all. >>> just ahead the chairman of the senate intelligence committee gives us assessment of pelosi's trip and the potential risks for the united states and mark warner joins us up next. ♪m boston. ♪ it means, “ok-to-beer-fesest”. another sam octotoberfest? nein. make it ten! i like this guy. (cheers) >> tech: when you have

let's bring in former c.i.a. station chief dan hoffman. of concerns about the nuclear deal with iran starting with the fact that this deal doesn't address iran state sponsorship of terrorism which includes their attempt to assassinate our former national security advisor john bolton. it doesn't deal with their ballistic missile program and the fact that we found uranium at three previously undisclosed facilities in iran as the president refuses to discuss as part of this deal. but the overriding concern is that there is no chance that any such deal could be incorporated into a treaty. democrats and republicans oppose it. that means the deal in and of itself is unlikely to produce what we want. iran is a nuclear threshold state right now. even if a deal were signed with the nuclear sunset clauses it would increase the time before iran could have a nuclear weapon to a couple of years. there is a lot of concern out there and mostly also from the israelis who happen to live in the backyard in the middle east and rightly so. >> trace: nobody is

and the c.i.a. people don't understand that. this is what happened during the civil war.e are taking over. this is why the second amendment is in place because of tyranny. people need to have half a brain. i know that people on the other side who are the communists, who are the democrats, joe biden, hillary clinton. you could go down the list. they are not democrats. host: what evidence do you have that this is a conspiracy? caller: what evidence do they have against donald trump with russia, russia, russia. nothing. where's the due process in the january 6 committee? cheney is not a republican. she's a communist. two republicans on this committee. it's unbelievable that people in washington, d.c. that don't understand what the people of the united states -- you got a guy that got on there, a black guy, could tell with his voice, he said red next. where's the racism from the black people that call other people names? host: john, in roswell, new mexico. democratic caller. caller: yes. i don't know what's going up there in albuquerque. your last caller. there are consequenc