joining us now mark hertling retired air force lieutenant george clapper, cnn national security analyst and former director of national intelligence clarissa ward. clarissa, can you describe the regional global significance of the u.s. taking out not just the current head of al-qaeda but someone so deeply involved with september 11th, even if some of it's just not necessarily operationally that significant? >> there's no question that this is a hugely symbolic significant moment. this is a man as president biden said in his eighth minute address, who had literally spent decades targeting, killing americans, calling in other people to kill americans, praising those who attacked americans. he was osama bin laden's trust in japanese, right hand, he had been able to continue even while living in a sort of pakistani hinterland's to release audiotapes, occasional videotapes to try to keep coalescing support for al-qaeda, keep calling for those attacks, and so when you think of this now what are we almost 21 years after the 9/11 attack. it shows how far the reaches of u.s. justice. it's clearl