Happening now, China's military is mobilizing after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan

defying Beijing's threat of retaliation.

We are tracking this risky test of U.S. relations with the

communist regime. And also this hour new images show the hideout where Al Qaeda

leader Iman Alsawari was killed by a US Hellfire drone strike,

stand by for new details about the high stakes mission

to finally take out the world's most wanted terrorist.

And CNN has learned that the Pentagon wiped the phones of top defense officials at the end of the Trump administration,

deleting any text from key witnesses to the events surrounding January 6th.

I'll get reaction from a member of the January 6th Select Committee.

Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world.

Will Flitzer is off, I'm Pamela Brown and you're in the situation room. And we begin with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's controversial trip to Taiwan

and the added strain it's putting on already tense

U.S. relations with China.

See then Selina Wang has a report from Beijing.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi staying overnight in Taiwan, ignoring relentless warnings from Beijing that there would be grave consequences.

Speaker Pelosi touching down in Taipei just before 11 PM local time, becoming the most

senior U.S. official to visit Taiwan in 25 years.

But the high stakes, high risk visit also comes at a delicate moment for Jewish-China relations.

Speaker Pelosi expected to meet the Taiwanese president and members of parliament on Wednesday

and an op-ed she wrote, we cannot stand by as the CCP proceeds to

threaten Taiwan and democracy itself by traveling to Taiwan we honor our

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