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You mentioned the drone campaign. thats been a very up critical part of this global war on terror. going into somalia, dealing with high value targets in yemen, again, kinds of goes back to that point we were talking about in terms of how al qaeda has dissipated moved off to different areas. so you have to where possible, you have to chase them down and deal with it, but it does take an administration willing to say yes, this is what were going to do. >> i want to unpack that piece of it, what t...

called were in this order george walker bush and then bill clinton because he knew at some level both men had tried to actually kill bin laden and had been unable to do it. >> reporter: public reaction a year ago may not have been as solemn as the phone calls sound. it is nonetheless true that bin ladens death was greeted then across party lines as a matter of justice, not politics. candy crowley, cnn, washington. top of the hour. im suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed. a w...

43 passengers kept on board a plane for more than three hours. the cause, a bug bite. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning to you. im carol costello. you are bere its final flight. the granddaddy of a program. it was the next wave of a space race that had americans holding their breath. a craft so futuristic and exciting president ford told nasa to name it after captain kirks ship from the legendary show "star trek." >> space, the final frontier. these are the voyages of the sta...

details about the sex scandal thats shaken the secret service. cnn identified the agent who triggered the prostitution scandal that exploded during president obamas trip to colombia. drew griffin of the special investigations unit has the exclusive report. >> reporter: a hotel security guard at the hotel caribe say it is commotion began in the 7th floor hall way where some of the agents were staying. through hotel records cnn can confirm at least three agents assigned rooms on the floo...

Talk more about why graham allison, who is an academic, served in administrations in both parties, why was he able to produce this reporting when other people could not? >> he had -- he is a great figure in american scholarship. and scholarship about presidential decision making. he has worked for both republican and democratic secretaries of defense. he is an honest broker. and i think the white house must have felt, lets look at this decision making process. because even in grahamas piece, he ...

The president about the status of operations in afghanistan, which the president asked general mcchrystal, who was then running the theater, to prepare this report. he prepares a 66-page report. and just as it is handed to the president, its in "the washington post" and "the new york times." >> yes. see, when the -- the day that leon panetta walked into the oval office to say, you know, mr. president, theres this compound, and the person who lives there is osama bin ladens trusted courier, and t...

His life covering osama bin laden. he is one of our contributors. and its a piece about life, the last days osama bin laden. what it was like for him in that compound. peter is one of the only journalists to actually visit the compound. and it was razed to the ground three days afterwards. and the second piece, which is extraordinary, is by graham allison, professor of course at the kennedy school. >> im reading it right now. >> one of the most distinguished historians of presidential decision m...

Rape victim, to go through with the pregnancy and give birth by order of the state. thats a pretty radical new idea of really big government. a government big enough and intrusive enough to take over the decision making process from a rape victim and her family as to what she is allowed to do to her own body to deal with the consequences of having been raped. thats a very big government idea. thats not a very mainstream idea. for decades as the republican party has become more draconian and unif...

Force you the rape victim to go through with the pregnancy and give birth by order of the state. thats a pretty radical new idea of really big government. a government big enough and intrusive enough to take over the decision making process from a rape victim and her family as to what she is allowed to do to her own body to deal with the consequences of having been raped. thats a very big government idea. thats not a very mainstream idea. for decades as the republican party has become more draco...

Rescued children from czechoslovakia and brought them to england. >> my cousin is the one that went on the train. she was -- her parents -- and this is one of the things i talk about, the difficulty of decisions, is that she had a little sister and at the last minute, her parents decided not to send the little sister along with her to england, in order they thought, to protect her, and then as it turns out the little sister and her mother, my aunt, and her husband, uncle, all died in concentrati...