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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 f ....
Using this terrorist trade craft, those women were, to try to prevent anyone from tracking them to that house, where al zawahiri was staying. now, officials had started to determine and identify some patterns of life there at that house, including al zawahiri spending extended periods of time sometimes on a balcony there. they analyzed the construction and the structure of the building that was located in downtown kabul. that was in a residential area, there were a lot of concerns during the planning of this operation about possible civilian casualties. this work played out over the course of may and june and then president biden on july 1st convened a meeting of his national security team in the situation room. you see in that photo there, the cia director, bill burns, also his national security adviser jake sullivan, white house chief of staff ron klain and other officials on hand as the president was briefed on this proposed operation. there were a lot of questions from president bi ....