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If hed given a satisfactory answer to my bin laden question. i made clear he hadnt. at wasnt point senator specter asked why cuba didnt have free and fair election. and he replied oh you mean like you had in the year 2,000. he fully understood that anyone running for president needed to court florida, and to do so meant appealing to the then monolithic cuban american voters. and he acknowledged how the embargo was a unifier among his people. he criticized the embargo and claimed he wanted it dis...

All think that was terrific. lets face reality. were a bunch of hypocrites. and thats probably necessary when you live in a real world with the terrible people. you want to comply with the highest standards but you also want to achieve the ends. you cant do that. >> except for the rule of law thats always been our strong suit and for the last decade weve run from the law to avoid it. this is an opportunity to reset and get back on the right track with living in fear. >> so let me ask you a quest...

Going to be a lingering question and i have no indication that we will get an answer to it any time soon. the intelligence service has said so far that they didnt know anything is an embarrassment but insist it wasnt because they were not looking or inend. its just that they missed it. >> president zardari saying that its muir speculation that they were at all involved. nic robertson, thank you from abbottabad. and now this. other law enforcement agencies are contributing people and machines t...

>>erer were you debating how the release of a photo would go over given the gruesomene nesness ve the need of people all over the world to demand proof of death. >> there is no question that there were concerns and questions that had to be debated about just exactly what kind of impact would these photos have, but the bottom line is that, you know, we got bin laden, and i think that we have to reveal to the rest of the world the fact that we were able to get him and kill him. >> so, dan, given w...

Extremist. >> i described him not as a muslim leader. >> and yet, you say that showing his dead body will incite -- >> we have no need to publish those photographs to establish that osama bin laden was killed, and it is not in the presidents view necessary or prudent to do that, because of the possible inflammatory nature of those photographs. >> why is it inflammatory if he is -- >> well, there is a long history of images like that being used to rally opinion against people to turn the people i...

Course getting out of hand, and potentially endangering americans here at home and abroad. dan lothian is at the white house for me this afternoon. dan, not in our national security interest, and according to carney and the president to make these photos public and quoting the president, this is not who we are, so dan, my question, was there ever a time when the president considered releasing one of these photos? >> you know, that is a good question, and in fact, jay carney was asked that at a b...

Sort of internal deliberation as to whether or not it should be done. and i asked jay carney if it was the majority opinion of those advising the president that the pictures should not be released, and he said yes shg. we do know that the cia director leon panetta had been public about suggesting that the pictures would be released, but again, most of those around the president advising him according to jay carney were telling him that the photos should not be released. >> let me jump in, becaus...

Involved to sit down and negotiate a lasting peace. the president believes that and has made that clear. >> and just a different question. the electric company sony was never authorized outsiders and they were that more than one -- all right. they have officially switched gears and we will as well here. welcome to "cnn newsroom." im brooke baldwin. you have been listening to jay carney briefing the members of the media for the past hour because of the big decision that we have learned coming o...

Human being but "forgiveness doesnt mean forget what happened. if something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures. the bin laden question came up yesterday during his appearance at the university of southern california. we are a couple of minutes away from the blitzer in "the situation room." wolf, you are going to hear from the chair of the homeland security, peter king. and i remember him speaking yesterday. hes seen the pictures and he sa...

And corroborated in another way, and if, you know, which thread held the cloth together with the exception of the location over the compound, and i would simply note that has only been in existence for five or six years. so my -- and ask i finish answering his question. that would be great. the fact is that information was gathered from the detainees and we have multiple ways of gathering information, from the detainees from dif method analysts and putting the information together to create a bo...