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ayman al zawahri, al qaedas leader and a former deputy to osama bin laden on 9/11, was killed by a cia drone strike in kabul. the administration has not confirmed al zawahri was the target ahead of the presidents re, ma. the senior administration official said there were no civilian casualties in the mission. al zawahri has been on the run for year, and his history of violence extends well beyond his role in planning 9/11. the egyptian doctor was at one point arrested in connection wit...

a source saying after one instance in which justice department officials were in contact with mr. trumps team, boxes were moved in and out of the room. were also monitoring the former presidents evolving response to this search. he now says the documents taken fall under attorney client privilege and that he wants them back immediately. >> lets begin with cnn senior crime and justice reporter kaitlin. a lot of developments and things that moved quickly since last monday. tell us what t...

Natasha joins me. this was a real concern that the taliban would welcome al qaeda back and they would regroup. something of a surprise, i suppose, they have not at this point. >> it is because senior biden administration officials said a year ago that they believed that al qaeda could regroup in afghanistan in one to two year. clearly something changed here. the biden administration would say that the intel shifted because they have been watching over the last year about what the group has been ...

House. >> joining me, senior reporter for business insider and josh g g gerstein. josh, you covered the death of osama bin laden, all the fallout of that. what are some of the striking differences in president trumps announcement about this killing versus that of barack obamas? >> well, i mean, the announcement that the president made, it was pretty curious how he seemed to be insisting this was better than what happened with bin laden, this was a bigger, more important terrorist figure than bin...

But in that is what it takes to get him off of the dime, it is going to be in the courts, and we will fight it out in the court system for sure, but we can basically put people back to work and take care of the services that make the country strong and feed our children and take care of our responsibilities. >> the president is for the first time going to the address the nation from the oval office or for first time tonight, and the president and his advisers have used sometimes misleading and s...

Of the intelligence haul. theyre describing it as the largest cache of intelligence theyve gotten from a senior terrorist figure ever. theyre going through it. handwritten documents, videos, dvds, thumb drive, all of it to get any clues thatthy can. the videos theyve distributed are very much a product of what the u.s. government has decided to show the world. lets be very clear about that. there is no audio of them. thats been stripped off. they said they dont want to be in the business of dist...

Story the defection of the foreign minister. tell us how significant that is. >> reporter: i think one of the ways to judge how significant it is at the moment, nobody in the government here has given us an official response to this. last night, they were really scrambling, denying that it was happening. the deputy foreign minister was telling us the foreign minister was there on an assignment for the government and he would be back very soon. in fact, back within a few hours. they were complete...