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and good morning, everyone. it seems like every, single night we get brand-new details on this operation, the takedown of osama bin laden. it turns out the firefight was a lot less intense than first described. and also this morning, the pakistanis may blow up the bin laden compound. they dont want it to be any kind of a shrine. theres a tug-of-war going on between the pakistanis and the americans over bin ladens wife and daughter. the americans are asking for access. >> and people ask...

and good morning, everyone. it seems like every, single night we get brand-new details on this operation, the takedown of osama bin laden. it turns out the firefight was a lot less intense than first described. and also this morning, the pakistanis may blow up the bin laden compound. they dont want it to be any kind of a shrine. theres a tug-of-war going on between the pakistanis and the americans over bin ladens wife and daughter. the americans are asking for access. >> and people ask...

Incredible, incredible raid, that took a lot of guts, the kind of thing you do see in a hollywood movie. the easier thing would have been just to bomb. >> dee dee, you know this so well, presidents are always set up to get hammered later on for a bad memoir, whatever, the president was sitting around the capitol, they were trying to make the decision and the president went around. everybody said, yes, we need to get him, but -- except for leon panetta, nobody gave him a green light. you know if ...

Attend but considering the invitation. former president bush is not going to attend. he has largely kept out of the public eye just in general and his spokesperson told me he will attend the 10 year anniversary at ground zero on september 11th. >> i think its interesting, ill go to the panel here and you guys can engage, if you want, dee dee, especially, inviting george w. bush to ground zero, coco -- collaborate and i think an elegant act. how do you read it? >> theres been bad blood between th...

Made it hard to know him at this point in his life. hes really receded from the public eye. >> dee dee, isnt what transpired here with the death of bin laden, a sign or small one of what was an effectively transition between these two presidents? >> a great deal of con nuty in the anti-terror policies of the second half of the bush administration and the obama administration. i think -- thats why i think theyve been careful to give the bush team credit for a lot of this, not all the credit becau...

accomplish this mission that although for several months, we were in the process of planning it and there were as many as 16 members of congress who were briefed on it, not a single solitary thing leaked. i find that absolutely amazinam. [ applause ] >> good morning. its wednesday, may the 4th. we are here in washington d.c. we have the president, the council on foreign relations with us. nbc news capitol correspondent, kelly odonnell and msnbc chief washington correspondent, norah odo...

Fashion at our house we mean something else. where were you? >> was visiting my brother in williamsburg. i didnt see a lot of celebrating, but i did see one british dj raise his eyebrow. i think in williamsburg that is quite a celebration. >> it is like a gathering of old colonial people dressed up. >> different williamsburg. thats where you were when buddy holly died. >> last night i got a call from an dee. i wept out and got drunk with andy in hells kitchen. i got drunk on 9/11 because thats w...

all off in operation about 60 miles noth of islam ma. in addition to osama bin laden two others were killed. his many l dem many st son believed to be among the best. the u.s. has the body of osama bin laden and we are told that it is being handled by islamic customs from a senior administration official. quoting we are ensuring it is handled in accordance with islamic practice and tradition, something we take seriously handled in an appropriate manner. >> a big morning, of course, one...

Of a one-day story, i do this it was -- he figured why not just end this. you remember in the pennsylvania primary in 2008 at a certain point he got really annoyed personally about what he called petty distractions and actually went on the colbert report and, you know, said good-bye to petty distractions, trying to get them off the table. when dee dee was in government we had the luxury in the 1990s to deal with trivia. we dont have that luxury anymore. we have to deal with the serious issues. i...

Tell you whether weve been suckers for it, because weve sat here and had nothing to do but debunk it. at the same time, here you have a mainstream guy, donald trump, using it to appeal to the republican party. so an legitimates at the same time, got to explain it. >> talking about in the media. the genius of the tabloids. he understands the rhythm of tabloids, lived in the middle of it, hes not done. this story has more legs whether the presidents transcripts in college we havent seen the end of...