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Thank you. >> how do you want to do this? [ laughter ] >> come on, a free for all. >> the associated press. >> thank you, sir. i wanted to ask about the specific goal of the raid. was there a consideration to try to take bin laden alive or was the mission to kill him on sight? >> absolutely, it was to prepare for all contingencies. if we had the opportunity to take bin laden alive and if he didnt present any threat, the individuals involved were able and prepared to do that. we had discussed tha...

With hillary clinton, and i asked if this undermines any cooperation, and she said that pakistan helped the united states to help us to lead us to bin laden, and also to the compound where he was hiding and other officials on background say, they could not have done it without this general anti-terror cooperation, but i think that is where you have to define it. and it is unclear. yes, general information and probably some that led them to it, but the crunch times comes when that operation took ...

Take him alive, the individuals involved were able and he prepared to do that. the concern was that bin laden would oppose an inside capture operation. indeed he did. it was a fire fight. he, therefore, was killed in that fire fight and thats when the remains were removed. >> there was also a tense situation for officials monitoring the events. its one of the most anxiety-filled periods in their lives. what weve heard in the last few hours and im sure in the hours ahead well hear even more. >> j...

Predator drone over, and they did not want to do that. >> the president did not want to do that or the cia director, because he clearly wanted evidence. he did not want to drop a bomb, but they wanted the know the target they had struck. >> they wanted the body. >> yes, in fact, they got it. gloria, good reporting. anderson, i have to tell you everyone, and i have spoken to a lot of political-types here in with washington, and obviously, the democrats, but republicans and conservatives are prais...

Pakistan tweeted about the top secret operation going on, and he had no idea really what was going on, but he knew something was going on, and we will hear from him and brooke baldwin is all over this story, and she will show us his tweets right after this. im supposed to reach, or... tdd# 1-800-345-2550 its beach homes or its starting a vineyard. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 come on ! tdd# 1-800-345-2550 just help me figure it out tdd# 1-800-345-2550 in a practical, lets-make- this-happen kind of way. t...

Operatives and one of the helicopters went down, and there was -- there was a lot of nervousness, and tell our viewers what happened. >> that is right. well, the helicopter has what they describe as mechanical problems, and mr. brennan saying that was what he viewed as the most tense moment throughout as all of this was playing out, because he says that when you plan an operation like this, you always hope that you can accomplish it through step one or the a-operation, but sometimes you have to ...

>> i wanted to ask about the specific goal of the raid. were they trying to taken by * alive or was eight mission to kill him on site. >> it was to prepare for all continue general is. if we had the opportunities to taken by latden alive and it didnt present any thoughts and the individuals were able to do that. we discussed that at meetings with the president. the concern was bin laden would oppose any type of capture operation. indeed he did with a firefight. he therefore was killed in that fi...

There was somebody from the city where osama bin laden was hiding out who was tweeting about this operation even as it was going on. tell the viewers what you know. >> well, it is an interesting facet to the story that speaks to the pervasiveness of social media in a world event like this. these are some of the most read tweets around the world today and this is all coming from the i.t. consultant living in abottabad in the neighborhood where they found osama bin laden and he provided the first ...

That. and before they conducted this operation, that suggests that there is still some issues there, wolf, to say the least. >> he went one step further actually and also said that the u.s. would discuss this with the government of pakistan until the u.s. helicopters and all of the u.s. troops and the body of bin laden were out of pakistani air space. they didnt want the pakistanis to know anything that was going on. that was a pretty dangerous decision because pakistani military forces could ha...

They have all taken more of a turn to the left. none of them at this current time, alex, take the storm into the northern gulf. so were happy its not going to hit the leak site and make that worse and the cleanup take longer. but we still have friends in texas to worry about. they could have a hurricane in four or five days. >> thank you, bill karins. lets head now to venice, louisiana, and nbcs charles hadlock. in terms of the tropical storm, what do you see the biggest concern now as the cre...