May 1 2011 News Today

andrew. teddy joins his brother wilder in keeping his mom and dad sleep deprived. we congratulate all of them. thanks so much for that and for joining us. "anderson" starts now. good evening. as ukraine continues to prepare in ways to launch a counter offensive today russia launched more missile strikes against civilians including one of the deadliest strikes of the war this year. the missiles hit residential buildings in two cities. ukrainian officials say at least 23 are confirmed ...

dissent? we had three of us writing a dissent. we thought it was for many, many reasons harmful to the court and we thought for many reasons it was generally a harmful decision. we thought it was wrong and five people thought it was right. >> so the truthful answer is, at this moment i dont know exactly. there are people who spend a lot of time on this matter. i can say it is a very important thing, this right to abortion, and i think casey is a better opinion from a legal point of vie...

endorsed the big lie that donald trump should somehow still be president. again, thats a lie. so lets get right to it. you know who im talking about, steve kornacki back at the big board. where do things stand right now? >> the biggest story of the night this one, kansas. constitutional amendment that would say the constitution in the statet of kansas does not provide for the right to abortion goes down tofo defeat, goes down to defeat, overwhelmingly. this is a tremendous surprise wha...

Bit of a slugfest over the last couple of months, but its still that case. within the next cup of weeks youre going to see russia turn to the defensive, and theyve been preparing that for months, and youre going to see you crane go on the operational offense. theyll pick the time and place of their choosing in terms of attacks. theyll look for seams in the russia defensive belt, which russia has been preparing. and they will take the new equipment theyve received from the west and conduct that c...

He said the action was necessary because of the presidents withdrawal from afghanistan. is that fair? >> well, al zawahiri, of course leading the organization since may 1, 2011, when bin laden was taken out the worlds most notorious terrorist. >> either way. >> i think there is a question of whether or not al qaeda will reasirt itself in afghanistan with the taliban in charge. they invited al zawahiri in. they have an over the horizon counterterrorism strike capability. they developed the intell...

The building was made and they -- this is all part of the rehearsal that special operations forces do. we saw it in the bin laden raid, a model made of the compound, and they tried to assess, using military engineers, whether the building would withstand exactly what happened, which is one of the isis people in the building blowing themselves up, blowing up explosives, and they made a calculation that the building could withstand that, so think about that. what a tidbit. because what it really m...

You is that we did do a lot in these 20 years in afghanistan, and maybe the best thing we did is on may 1, 2011. we did what we originally came to do which is to take down osama bin laden to protect this country from a terror attack from afghanistan for 20 years and as badly-handled as the biden withdrawal has been this operation was flawless. the cia, the white house and the military community all worked together flawlessly to bring those off. steve: thats right. chris new book "countdown to bi...

Just saw. do you worry about a terrorist like him being able to now thrive in afghanistan since our troops got out? >> absolutely, absolutely. you know, when you consider the fact that the reason we went in in 9/11 the taliban gave safe harbor to al qaeda. al qaeda has been seriously degraded. as bad as the withdrawal was we did something important on may 1, 2011. we degraded al qaeda. never a terror attack on the homeland. but the group that was in charge on 9/11 is back in charge now. al qaeda...

Subject from afghanistan. they can read those polls, too. but on the other hand, you know, these are legitimate subjects. in the generally talks about the job numbers going down to louisiana today, and the fact that more than 50 of our fellow americans were killed whether down in the gulf coast or in the northeast, and of course you have the texas and the abortion law, supreme court. those are all legitimate subjects. would the white house rather than talking about them than afghanistan absolute...

2011, we took down the mastermind of 9-11, severely degraded al-quaida and we protected the u.s. homeland from an attack like 9-11. there was none for 20 years. now that possibility raises again because of the fact that al-quaida is there under the taliban, isis-k is there under the taliban. for 20 years, we protected the homeland and we brought justice at the end of a rifle held by rob oneill, a seal to osama bin laden. >> neil: you know, its weird. when im reading this and i got the book -- yo...