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You believe osama bin laden is hiding in this compound. there are array of ways to effect this kill. what can we learn about looking at how this went down? how the united states chose to execute this operation? i mean, its not a situation where they decided to have a drone drop a bomb. instead, you had an incredibly daring operation by special forces. what do you make of it? >> well, unsurprising but stunning. the human material, these tier one special operations units which include seal team si...

Nearly ten years after 9/11, the operation to kill bin laden was over in 40 minutes. >> its amazing that this plan began to take shape eight months ago. the president held five meetings in the last six weeks to try to get this closer and closer to a decision to do, to make the order that he made on friday for what happened on sunday and then amazing harrowing moments. tell us more. >> actually for years intelligence operatives have been tracking bin laden, thought they got close to him. for mont...

Captured or killed a nuclear bomb will go off killing millions of innocent civilians. we need to be vigilance. this fight is not over. weve taken a significant step forward. for that i feel relief. >> all right, one of the surviving families of one of the victims of 9/11. thank you very much for joining us this morning. >> thank. you. >> carrie, thank you. were showing, chuck, of course this live shot waiting for secretary of state hillary clinton who will come and brief the press. chuck you and...

Weve been getting reaction from a lot of former bush administration officials sponsorship far the obama administration not saying publicly but we expect to hear from secretary of state clinton in a few minutes. we heard from former vice president dick cheney this morning who congratulated the president and the special forces involved in the bin laden raid. but he also caused the american people to remain vigilante. >> this really is a great day for an awful lot of people who worked very, very ha...

This is when the second very tense moment happened. as you know, chuck, the u.s. did not inform pakistani officials ahead of time about what was going to transpire. as the u.s. helicopters were still in pakistani airspace, pakistan heard about the explosion, saw the helicopters and scrambled its own f-16 fighter jets, not sure if these helicopters were friendly or if it was a foe. obviously information was conveyed and there was no incident. but two incredibly two intense moments in an operation...

He has lost that ability to direct al qaeda as a central organization, capable of carrying out big attacks. but there are others. franchise operations. individuals. look at the christmas day bomber and others. those who are trying to pull off plots, who considered al qaeda a loosely commit confederation in terms of organization or bin ladenism if you want to call that an idea, the idea of striking the u.s. whether you do it alone or as part of a larger syndicate or as part of a larger plot. what...

Community right now. i dont think al qaeda had a contingency plan for a series of attacks in the event bin laden was killed. i think there are two real possibilitys. the first is individuals who had no direct affiliation took matters into their hands and launch an attack. middle east and southeast asia. pakistan and yemen in particular. what director panetta was guesting at al qaedas central organization to the extent they have an operational capability will try to put together a plot that will ...

Somewhere where they walked through this operation. but, again, you know, its a small number of people out at the end of their tether. this operation came out of pakistan. i would be surprised if it didnt involve air to air refueling of these helicopters and then they had table to respond to emergencies on the ground which they did. by the way, i would assume that helicopter was actually hit by ground fire and that caused it to crash. they needed to land anyway to extract their people at the end...

Thats how it was put to me. this official tells me there were two heart stopping moments as this happened. the two helicopters approached the compound. the initial plan was not for the helicopters to land, as i under it, but rather to lower the seals on to the ground. however, for reasons we still dont fully one, one of the choppers stopped working. it was able to land. it didnt crash on the compound, chuck but landed on the ground. the seals went forward with the operation. when they came back,...

How long it takes, justice will be done. >> well be here for two hours. well go from our relationship with pakistan and all of the details and short fallout from this momentous occasion but well begin with how this happened. with 9 1/2 year manhunt ended at 3:00 in the afternoon eastern time on sunday when the team of elite troops raided bin ladens compound in pakistan, came face to face with "americas most wanted" man. here heres how it went down. >> reporter: friday morning just minutes before...