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wanted terror list with the word deceased. good evening, gentlemen. appreciate you joining us. alex, what are you learning about this mission and how it went down? >> this was a remarkable and complex mission. we got a lot of details from a senior administration official who spoke with reporters before president biden spoke with the nation. april president biden was briefed on the fact al-zawahiri was believed to be in the afghan capital of kabul living in that city and living there he was told with family members, his wife, his daughter, his grandchildren. now the intelligence commu...

Alex was talking about, the fact that al-zawahiri said, "i can live in relative comfort in a rich area of kabul." what does that tell you? it tells me al qaeda people are saying i have not only sympathizers, but supporters within the taliban movement that now owns afghanistan. what i would be thinking in government is that in an area that we would call safe haven back in the counterterrorism business, that is an area where al qaeda and isis-k feel relatively safe operating, where will we be in a year, two years, three years? to close two pieces of this, one, you got to worry that leadership in...

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...

Even isis is much lower. there still is some of it in places like syria where you have these no man's lands or bad lands, places that have no government. so you have thugs who take over and these thugs often have an islamic flavor, but i think we should be looking -- we should begin to think to ourselves, you know, this is a chapter in american national security strategy that is coming to a close. did we overreact? we built a massive security apparatus between the homeland security operations outfits, the huge increases in intelligence and defense spending. we invaded two countries. i think it...

Without significant jeopardy to civilian lives. incredible intelligence, don. that is incredible. >> phil, alex -- >> don, if i can add to that. >> yes, general. >> what phil just said is critically important. comfort leads to complacency. what you've seen al-zawahiri do in kabul and in the fatah area between pakistan and afghanistan, you've seen the traveling of individuals, the connection with the taliban government, but in addition to al-zawahiri there's several other senior leaders residing in afghanistan and the american people don't know these names, but you've got guys like safa adele, ...