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offers more threats nearby. state side a number of critical republican primaries have the attention of washington and bedminster. looks like we already have winners if you can believe it or not inner missouri and michigan and the polls have just closed in arizona. now this hour s going to be a high wire act as we bring you all of these breaking stories but we begin tonight with threats and truth. that is the focus of tonight s angle. five years ago, speaker visit taiwan. it was completely wrong. the u.s. draw a lesson from it instead of making repeated mistakes. laura: it s now, well, let me just tell you one thing. 10:00 a.m. in taiwan and, to her credit, nancy pelosi didn t back down when china essentially threatened to shoot her plane out of the sky. now she s been the ground for what, about 12 hours or so landing here just after 10:30 a.m. eastern today. we re going to bring you news about the specifics of her meetings at any moment. now, remember, trip details ....
touch bringing the metaverse to life and 15 years after we first took you onboard this magic school bus, how it has inspired america s next generation of scientists announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone in a trip the white house fears is fraught with risk and viewed by china as a challenge to its sovereignty, house speaker nancy pelosi is beginning a new day in taiwan, arriving overnight aboard a u.s. military vip transport to the self-governing island, which china considers its territory. the speaker defying strong warnings against the visit from china s president xi as well as white house concerns about potential military confrontations speaker pelosi becoming the highest ranking member of congress to travel to taiwan since 1997 in an op-ed just ahead of her short notice visit pelosi calling out china s accelerating aggression and affirming that america stands with taiwan as it defends itself and freedom andrea mitchell n ....
house speaker nancy pelosi is in taipei. china is lashing out. nearly two dozen war planes crossing into taiwan s air defense zone. just after 7 a.m. local time in taipei as i m speaking. speaker pelosi is getting ready to meet with taiwan s president and to visit taiwan s parliament in just these next hours. as we await the meetings and await to see the speaker leave her hotel, chinese president xi has placed them on high alert and launched military exercises around taiwan. the red boxes that are going to pop up, each indicate a place where chinese exercises are now taking place. tonight the biden administration is warning china. there s no reason, as i said yesterday, for beijing to turn this visit, which is consistent with longstanding u.s. policy, into some sort of crisis or use it as a pretexts to increase aggressiveness and military activity in or around the taiwan strait now or beyond her trip. now the biden team has been struggling to separate biden from pel ....
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 ....
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 at a lot may follow from. it will begin tonight with new details on how it all came together, cnn correspondent jim sciutto, one more have you learned about this mission? anderson, remarkable details coming up from a senior administration official tonight that speaks to a months long intelligence operation proceeding the strike from a drone on saturday. we re told that the president was first alerted to al-zawahiri presidents in kabul, start of april this year but that had followed months of u. s. intelligence agencies have been tracking ham, he moved to kabul extensively it seems to stay with friends there, downtown villa. and then over the course of the months, cia and other intel agencies developed patterns of his and his family s behavior with the intention of finding an opportunity to kill al-zawahiri in t ....