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Again. and head of the pakistani military ordered the number of u.s. military personnel in pakistan reduced to, quote, the minimum essential. all week u.s. officials have been pressing for access to the wives. but relations as bad as they are, pakistan hasnt granted it. as for the compound, pakistani authorities want to tear it down to remove any danger of it becoming a shrine to bin laden. jim sciutto, abc news, islamabad. native american leaders have told lawmakers on capitol hill that yudsi...

>> congressman john yarmouth, good to have you here. >> thanks, savannah. >> a big week for you. i was told the derby is tomorrow but the party starts today. >> the party. this is my pink tie. friday is pink day at churchill downs with the kentucky oaks. its a big weekend. >> all right. were showing the parade video to prove the party has started. all right, congressman. >> you can watch it on nbc tomorrow. >> excellent. all right, congressman. thank you so much. >> take care. bye-bye. coming ...

From the s.e.a.l. team themselves. >> very early reports probably werent exactly accurate. but it doesnt trouble me. thats just kind of the fog of war. thats just kind of the way things work today. >> reporter: four of the five people killed including bin laden were not armed. why the false reports? administration backers say there is good reason. the s.e.a.l.s who were there had not yet been debriefed. those s.e.a.l.s are not talking to cia investigators and within hours they will be talking to...

Role model even today. so native americans are furious that the military linked his name with that of a globally despised terrorist. the senate is holding hearings to try to get to the bottom of the code name. and a media network called indian country today is challenging its facebook friends and followers on twitter to change their profile pictures to that of geronimo to honor him. on 9/11 as new yorkers fled ground zero, three of the worlds most iconic stars carpooled out of town together. m...

How the week we killed bin laden changed the political narrative. plus the first debate of the 2012 season is now for the record books. what a showdown between five guys most people have never heard of. well get into that. but first, the moment weve all been waiting for, white house soup of the day, debuting a brand-new soup at the mess today, its chilled cucumber. and according to my senior soup source, quote, the president was given an option of three soups and chose the riskiest blend with ...

Middle of a three-day washington visit. earlier in the day, he spoke at a conference on the future of food at georgetown university. >> an american who went after osama bin laden with a sword last year wants a piece of the reward. well tell you about it in the grapevine. we will tell you who wants an apology over a code name.

They are wonder whog is to blame for -- who is to blame over the code name. they are upset over the name "yes, sir." that was a famous apache who evaded capture in the 1880s. it lead to the transmission once he was killed geronimo ekia. they say why pick on us? robert e lee killed more americans than geronimo did, and hitler is evil per son fight. but the code night is geronimo? that is always fun. lets discuss it in lightning round. >> was it a bad choice? >> well, i think the whole thing with ...

Silver bullet if it was, then why did it take us ten years or many, many years after the water boarding of these individuals to find bin laden? >> what about the allegations we are hearing about the rough interrogations, most of us call torture of khatani -- ksm and his replacement in al qaeda, led us to this fella this courier who had the nom de guerre of code name of al kuwaiti, was that all part of tracking him to peshawar and the compound? >> you can ask the other question also, if other tec...

Who was going to see osama bin laden in pakistan. once they had his nom de guerre, had his fake name this co-trace who he was, where he was going. >> you just jumped over the fence with me, cliff. you jumped over the fence. how did we get knowing his nickname, his code name to his nom de guerre? to who he was? how did they find out who he was? >> thats where you get into the warrantless wiretap, the name was used, they checked the phone records and found that they believe they had now had the ac...

If you burn a bridge, you cant pass it again. >> we keep on hoping that jack bauer method works, but it doesnt seem to be that way in real life. now we move ahead to 2005. langley, virginia. the cia director, porter goss says, this isnt working. im going to overhaul the counterterrorism unit. im going to put more officers on the ground in pakistan and afghanistan, and they do that and get part of this couriers name. using that code name, they go around and get the information, part of the name. ...