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35 times he has been on "meet the press." newt gingrich cast himself as a newbie despite appearing on "meet the press" 35 times. he is practically a hall of famer on that show. tonights big number. up next, osama bin laden was obsessed with killing president obama. he wanted had him dead. and thats the word from the intelligence analysts who have been going over bin ladens personal journals taken from the compound there. what does the middle east hold now that bin laden is gone? that is the bi...

>> he was still very much in charge, although all those years in hiding, he wanted to be the football coach still running terrorism around the world. incredible. also ahead in this half hour, one scare in the air after another involving passengers who were out of control during flights. whos reacting to this jittery situation in the skies after bin whos reacting to this jittery situation in the skies after bin ladens death? u maybe we need to back off a little bit, so weve got that story comin...

She and her husband dined out at a restaurant. she was take bin wheel chair into a private dining area. the dinner was the first reported public outing since she left the rehab facility last week. after an exciting race, animal kingdom took home the kentucky derby crown. muchoin second place and meu macho man came in third. >> that had to be your horse? >> did you say my horse or my nickname in high school? >> shannon: neither. >> thank you very much. new details continue to emerge about osama...

Fertile in the first place. >> they expected this? >> well, i heard rob talk to a man who went through the 37 or 39 flood, he said, sometimes it just happens. what we have done, we have put people in the way. we have put houses in the way. we have put communities in the way that werent there in 1939 and 37. thats whats getting flooded this time. >> chad, appreciate that. >> sure. look at business headlines. cnn money.coms lead story, how gas prices are impacting the average family. a check of ...

Numbers would tell the u.s. officials quite a lot. richard? >> tazeed ahmad, thank you very much. what are u.s. officials findsing in the treasure trove of intelligence they found at osama bin ladens compound? and how much of it will they make public? nbc is joining us live from the pentagon. and jim, what can you tell us about this? >> well, you know, the intelligence analysts both at the cia and fbi are going to be looking for names, telephone numbers, addresses, dates, anything that will le...

Going down. it must have been a very excruciating time period for you. >> well, its always a little anguse, you know. even going in to where the decision was made to launch the operation, after five years of our case officers, our intelligence analysts, the nsa, the nga, the national geo agency, all of these folks combined, to find this place, there still wasnt 100 percent assurance it was osama bin laden there. so everyone was anxious, everyone was on pins and needles. thankfully it came out we...

Protege of khalid sheikh mohammed, and trusted associate of al-qaeda number three after 9/11. he and ksm are held at bay bay. >> the more people you capture and interrogate the better. the problem for the nation is gitmo not being used as a jail we dont have a place to put someone we capture them tomorrow. >> by 2009, they had a rough idea where the courier and his brother operated north of islamabad. it would take another year until august 2010 when the compound was identified as a couriers hom...

Small piece of a much larger puzzle put together by literally hundreds of intelligence analysts. speaking on "fox & friends", john brennan, the white house counterterrorism adviser downplayed the significance of these enhanced interrogation techniques that were used in the bush administration. here it is: >> now, what allowed us to get to the aot bad compound was -- abbottabad compound, some of it came from individuals, some from human sources, other technical means but there was no single bit o...

Inner circle. the courier was described as protege of khalid sheikh mohammed, and trusted associate of al-qaeda number three after 9/11. he and ksm are held at bay bay. >> the more people you capture and interrogate the better. the problem for the nation is gitmo not being used as a jail we dont have a place to put someone we capture them tomorrow. >> by 2009, they had a rough idea where the courier and his brother operated north of islamabad. it would take another year until august 2010 when th...

>> if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, its a duck. we are now engaged in at least a modified sense, in a third war in this region. right now, its just an air war. we do not have men and women directly in harms way, now that weve taken out his anti-aircraft. but it is military conflict. its very hard to predict. we know this from all of human history, how these things play out. gadhafi could turn to terrorism. remember the disco bombings that he perpetrated in europe -- >> we know tha...