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what was going on, what the response was going to be. and, look, china s one of our biggest adversaries, so to see this, you know, when people look up in the sky and i was driving around earlier, people were pulled over on the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones. a lot of intrigue about this. you know, this is an interesting, you know, interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this. and for me, i m incredibly concerned about where, you know, where this was headed and why it took so long to address. mike: a sense of relief as a south carolina congressman that this has been successfully shot down, apparently over the atlantic ocean? i think so, and i m super proud of the men and women at south carolina s shaw air force base for doing so. i think that shows our resolve and that we re able to take any task. it was really interesting to the watch this spy balloon go over my house and to see fighter planes really circling this balloo ....
concern. 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. a lot went into the drone strike and a lot may follow from it. we begin tonight with new details how it all came together and with chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. anderson, remarkable details coming out from a senior administration official tonight which speaks to a months long intelligence operation preceding this strike from a drone on saturday. we re told the president was first alerted to his presence in kabul in april, the start of april this year. but that had followed months where u.s. intelligence agencies had been tracking him, that he had moved to kabul ostensibly it seems to stay with family there, a downtown villa. in the course of those months cia and other intelligence agencies developed patterns of his and his family s behavior with intention of fili ....
But absolutely china. this is a wake-up call for the united states. arthel: so then vladimir putin is watching this as we know he is, what is his takeaway? and is it possible that invest e part of china to raise the skirt of the united states and signal to putin how far he can go in terms of ukraine and just in terms of timing of it all? well, the timing is very interesting. let s go all the way back to august 30th of 2021, that debacle of a u.s. withdrawal out of afghanistan. what did that show our allies and add adversaries? and february 24th you ve got putin invading ukraine. now fast forward to china just, again, it seems to be a relatively smaller act of a balloon going through the southern united states air space, but it shows the fact that, i believe, you know, ukraine shows this, but putin and russia and china vis-a-vis ....
Fire missiles struck him, killed the al-qaeda leader but did not hurt or threaten the lives of anybody else in that building, which the administration says was a key concern. following the u.s. withdrawal a little less than a year ago, august 30th of 2021, there had been a very open question as to whether the u.s. would be able to carry out counter terror operations to the degree it had while it had boots on the ground in afghanistan. in fact, the cia director had said publicly they would not have the same capability to do so. over the horizon operations, they re more difficult. you have to rely on eyes in the sky, not eyes on the ground. but this is an operation that was successful doing just that, and that s a remarkable intelligence feat. it s a remarkable operational feat for this man who helped lead, you know, the greatest terror threat that this country has ever faced. ....