defined by the defeat of this man, incumbent congressman peter meyer. one of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach trump. and the victory of this woman, tudor dixon, former actress and conservative media figure and now a republican nominee for michigan governor, who scored the last-minute backing of the former president. meanwhile, in arizona, nbc has just projected the republican nominee for attorney general will be abraham hamaday, who was endorsed by trump. trump s pick for arizona secretary of state, mark fincham also sailed for victory, as did his pick for the senate, blake masters who will face democrat mark kelly in november. and arizona s republican house speaker, rusty bowers, who was a star witness for the january 6th committee, lost his state senate race to his trump-backed opponent. but the most closely watched race there is still too close to call. the showdown between trump-backed election denier, kerri lake, and karen taylor robeson. our team is cove
questions so to be answered on that front. a lot of questions still to be answered. and in a new column for the washington post, ruth marcus writes, quote, a select committee has performed a vital public service by amassing the record it has, amidst the place to continue. especially for those who doubted that this enterprise was worth the effort is the critical role of congressional oversight, for posterity as well as the president. but another lesson, one manifested during watergate, is that oversight has its limits. federal prosecutors possess unrivaled power to assemble evidence, and about testimony overcoming bogus assertions of privilege, and granting immunity when warranted. our justice department officials preparing to deploy that authority, when it comes to the events surrounding january 6th? joining me now to discuss, msnbc contributor and former u.s. attorney, joyce alene joyce vance. she is now a law professor at university of alabama. also with us, national co
led to what biden called a precision strike targeting the most wanted terrorist. we make it clear again tonight that no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. zawahiri s death comes 11 years after the u.s. killed osama bin laden. at one point he was bin laden s personal physician. jasmine wright has more on biden s decision to take him out, and ben wedeman joining us with the details on the strike itself. let s start with the strike. it was months in the making. what more do we know about the operation itself? reporter: basically it was done by a drone that fired two hell fire missiles on to the balcony of the building that ayman al zawahiri and his family were living in in kabul, it happened at 6:18 a.m. local time in kabul. and this obviously, yes, as we ve heard time and time again, this was an operation long in the making. but what is interesting is that until now it is
his death sends a clear message. this mission was carefully planned, rigorously minimize the risk of harm to other civilians. and one week ago after being advised the conditions were optimal, i gave the final approval to go get him. no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. the white house has just released this photo from july, president biden meeting with his national security team in the situation room, discussing the possible operation to kill al zawahiri. reminiscent of the photo from the operation room during the bin laden operation. we re learning about the planning behind it, it was intricate, months long. u.s. intel agencies were tracking down the al qaeda leader going back well into the beginning of this year. cnn s arlette saenz joins me now from the white house. what more do we know about the planning behind this, because what is remarkable, it seems, they first a
that s a quote. they view it as part of their territory. that s why it s a big deal. will ripley is there. tell us about what you re learning. so i ll start with the response because that s the new information we re getting from the chinese side. they have actually put out a map showing a number of different military exercises that are going to be happening at various locations that encircle the island of taiwan. some of these locations are very close to the shore line of taiwan. so we don t know exactly details yet about what these military exercises are going to entail, but theoretically, if they re loud enough, there could be some people living in taiwan along the coastline who can actually hear the sounds of this. and that will be incredibly escalatory and exactly the kind of point that beijing is trying to make to express their fury over nancy pelosi visiting home to 25 million people who elected their president, a president beijing does not feel is legitimate. he does