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Inside the situation room, intelligence officials brought in a small scale model of the safe house. they brought it to the president to describe to him, how exactly, they can conduct a strike with a drone and ensure that the building would remain structurally -- that the structural integrity of the building will remain. but the people inside the building, the civilians, including al zawahiri's family would not be killed. and ultimately, that is exactly what u.s. officials say happened here with these two hellfire missiles striking al-zawahiri while he was on this balcony. and u.s. officials sa...

Really incredible hard to do. because we have boots on the ground you've got people who can tell you certain things. everything from the wind direction, on a given day, and with the weather patterns are. like from that perspective as well as what the pattern of life of an individual's. they could be following that individual and finding out what the routines are. if you don't have people on the ground. you can do those kind of things, but it is a lot harder to do them. because you need to rely on technology. you need to rely on satellites. you need to rely on perhaps, instruments that are a li...

One of the world's most wanted terrorist. taken out by two american hellfire missiles. hitting the balcony of a home right in the middle of kabul. joining me now the former defense, secretary twinkle. and secretary, thank you, i really appreciate you joining us. i should say. ambassador >> good evening don. >> it has been nearly 21 years since 9/11. an attack that changed united states and the world. tell me how significant a moment this is? >> this is a really historic moment. and as you pointed out merely a new generation has grown up since the 9/11 attacks. many of those who were serving in...

Obviously, it's not impossible. >> talk to us more about these hellfire missiles. to strike a balcony without destroying the rest of the building, how does that work? >> that requires precise targeting intelligence, don. what they did with these whole fires was they gave them the coordinates. they gave them the exact location where they need to be. they decided exactly what's the impact points would be. that means, where they're gonna be heading that particular structure. as jeremy mentioned, they talk in detail about how they would hit the building so as not to make the building collapse on t...

Al-zawahiri. saturday night eastern time, sunday morning kabul time, an unmanned aerial vehicle, a drone, fired two hellfire missiles at the building where al-zawahiri was living. he was on the balcony at the time. he was killed and no one else we are told by the administration was hurt, just a remarkably precise strike against the most wanted terrorist in the world. >> let's talk about some of that intelligence. what kind of intelligence would president biden have needed to ultimately give this operation the green light? >> we need a don lemon special on this. let me talk about different cate...