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Whats the bigger picture, katherine? what did it reveal for us? >> well, i think what it tells us, is that theres a fundamental shift in the way that we are understanding usama bin laden and this life that he lead after 9/11. the public perception has been very much one where he was presumed to be under pressure because of the u.s. assaults in the tribal areas of pakistan. what we learned today from the compound in abbottabad pakistan. this was a command and control center, sort of a technical o...

Briefing of a senior intelligence official. bring us up-to-date to wheef seen so far and anticipate in the coming days. >> thank you, kelly. i i was at the briefing and lasted 40 minutes and several major-- covering this the better part after decade i can tell you that the information now analyzed by the cia is leading to a fundamental shift in the way that we understand usama bin laden and how he operated after 9/11. specifically, and i know youve discussed this earlier on your show, this compo...

Focusing on the pictures if youll let me do that sure. >> reporter: talking about the dna and how they were confident it was usama bin laden. number one, there was a woman in the compound we believe his wife who identified him to the seals. number two, they had whats called facial recognition pulse, something i reported on earlier this week, when you take pictures of a video, and then you match them with known pictures of that individual. they had a 95% match on facial recognition based on photo...

Somebody important was living there and not to say anything about it and if anybody approached they were to inform and make sure everybody knew what was going on and that i cans the cia operation on the ground there so extraordinary and why theyre so angry about it. >> kelly: the fact we were able to get that human intelligence on the ground and find out about it. and i want to point out here that the senior intelligence officials who spoke to our reporters there at the pentagon today, just mome...

A lackkey. all of this goes, having looked at this for a decade. a fundamental shift the way we understand how usama bin laden operated after 9/11. what we see from the data in that compound according to a senior intelligence official is that he was not under a rock. he was not cowering. he was actively directing operations, he was actively developing operations and trying to direct the strategy of the network and when it came to the united states he became obsessed with hitting the u.s. homelan...

Did you see any children. >> no. >> did you see anything in the background that caught your eyes? >> interesting in the background how he was sitting on the floor with the blanket around them. its clearly cold, a woollen blanket, a black cap on and gestured to the person thats videotaping them. point the camera at me while i watch myself on tv. he clearly, carefully guarded his image. its interesting were told that he had a gray beard when he was killed and in these videos which were taken not t...

Dissension in al-qaeda as to whether in fact he will be the leader who takes over. because they have found, and he they didnt reveal their means, but says hes known within the organization, zawahiri, as being ultra controlling, as well as not very charismatic. so theres an open question about who will take over after bin laden and you notice in the statement that was released yesterday by al-qaeda, that there was no mention of who the successor would be and so, there was some interesting details...

Pakistan recalibrates and finds a new locker. awlaki is a digital jihadist, making contact with western recruits not only in europe and the u.k., but here in the united states. there have been half a dozen plots in the united states where attempted plots in the united states and also in canada you can see awlakis fingerprints. so he is certainly considered an important player and this explains why this week there was a cruise missile attack in yemen and the target we confirmed was anwar awlaki. ...

Briefing. based on instant dna analysis as well and that was based on dna they had from his mother and three sons, that they had on hand, and you know, at headquarters, they were able to say within 1 in 14.8 quadrillion. that was the only -- they were essentially saying they had 99.9% match when they were there at the compound. and so, this was really, designed to try to put to rest any notion that this may not have been bin laden. but whats interesting about these videos is showing him in his h...

Said that, waleed, we need to keep up the pressure on al-qaeda to keep disrupting and dismantling that. walid phares, thank you, jamie? >> we hear about the amount of intelligence thats been collected from the compound and now the process is sifting through. joining me now, chad sweet former chief of staff for former homeland security security michael chertoff, former cia official as well and managing principal of the chertoff group. thank you so much, chad. >> thank you. >> jamie: youre joining...