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What do you make of this? >> i think it just really shows how frayed the presidents nerves are these days. really kind of what an isolated bubble we know through our reporting and through the reporting of others hes been living in. i mean, this -- skipping the veterans event on veterans day of all people, this president who holds himself up as this great champion of our armed forces. i think you see it in what you alluded to earlier with the tweets that dont really jive with reality, brian. you ...

Great champion of our armed forces. i think you see it in what you alluded to earlier with the tweets that dont really jive with reality, brian. you have the president talking about not just what we saw in florida in the recount and there being instances of infected ballots that he never offered any proof for, but hes also gone on and on about the commander in charge of the bin laden raid, also not appearing to understand that its not the armed forces that was responsible for finding bin laden. ...

The uniform, did not back any politician or political party, but now as a private citizen he is speaking out, and he is doing it i think very eloquently, and very appropriately. >> please explain the work flow in finding bin laden, the role of the intelligence community and the hand-off to the u.s. military. >> yes. for many, many years after 9/11 the cia and other elements of the intelligence community did their very best to try to track down bin laden, and he was very difficult to find. >> ima...

Conversation with finland that nobody in that country seems to have any recollection of. im not sure if the president thinks that people physically take rakes and go through the whole forest floor to clean it out. its unclear exactly what he is picturing there. then to be standing amid the wreckage, you know, of the town that had been completely decimated and having to be reminded by reporters of exactly where he was standing and where hed visited. i think its an indication, number one, of some ...

Parodies after they heard the presidents comments. be that as it may. our thanks on a monday night as we start a new holiday shortened week. kimberly atkins, jill colvin, jeremy peters, thank you so much for joining us tonight. coming up, more on the presidents attack on the man in charge of the raid that killed bin laden. john brennan was in the situation room that night. hes standing by to join us now. and later, the performance grade the president says he hates to give himself, but awards...

>> excuse me! hillary clinton fan. >> who led command of the operations that took down saddam hussein and that killed osama bin laden says that your sentiment is the greatest threat to democracy in his lifetime. >> okay. hes a hillary clinton backer. and an obama backer. and, frankly -- >> he was a navy s.e.a.l. for 37 -- >> -- wouldnt it have been nice if we got osama bin laden a lot sooner? >> okay, first of all, admiral mcraven took no position in the 2016 presidential election, so i dont kno...

And frankly -- >> hes a navy -- >> it would be nice if we got bin laden sooner than in. >> mcraven did not back hillary clinton although he has criticized trumps rhetoric. heres the question here. hillary clinton, barack obama. how long does the president continue to use them as his foils? >> hes going to use them probably long past theyre in office -- past hes in office, because to his core group of his base supporters, its like throwing red meat to a lion. but i got to say that this -- you kno...

The president is also making headlines today because hes also trashing admiral bill mcraven, the legendary navy s.e.a.l. in the bin laden raid. he dised him by saying he should have found bin laden sooner. it was actually the cia that was tasked with finding bin laden. mcraven was responsible for killing him which he effectively did. heres the tweet the president sent out after all of this. he says of course we should have captured osama bin laden long before we did. we paid pakistan billions of...

About the handling of intelligence, his response is to lash out and to believe that all of his critics are partisan. that is not the case in either here. what you have is intelligence professionals, military professionals and you have the president of the united states essentially saying b i dont believe you. you knew where bin laden was. pakistan knew where bin laden was. yes, he mentioned him in his book. he didnt say he knew where he was or how to go about get him or that there would be a ter...

To bin laden came from that enhanced interrogation. we wouldnt have gotten bin laden without those techniques which were medically supervised at the highest degree of safety, although they didnt know it. >> wright, sean. theres a couple points here i would highlight. first of all, its an uncomfortable truth for those who didnt support the program and dont today. that yes, it actually did work. you can debate the morals and ethics of the program but it did work. we did obtain significance intelli...