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Well listen to the people who told those stories, the authors of some of the most compelling books weve read and talked about this year. these men and women take us where we cant go ourselves, the childhood bedroom of a future dictator and friend of donald trump. the daring escape from capture by one of the most wanted man in the world and dinner with the 45th president of the united states. it makes for an hour of storytelling from the writers who know it best as we listen to the authors as the...

Just reminds me of the team concept of the military. ive been talking to the president for months about the war on terror and every time i would bring up the topic, he would tell me without any hesitation, im going to get that blank guy. i cant use the word on television, but the president has been determined for a very long time to bring baghdadi to justice and i want to complement him and his team for bringing about a result that i think is a game changer in the war on terror. the war is by no...

Night of may 1st, may 2nd of 2011 to kill bin laden. they we they were carrying little cards about who they thought would be in the compound, and they thought hanza would be with his father. hes been grooming him for a long time. hes a true believer. some of bin ladens other sons have left the group or got away or just sort of eschewed their father. hanza is certainly not that, and i think the fact the state department is putting $1 million on his head, they see him as a leader. the guy who lead...

Against the raid and there were too many things that could go wrong. vice president biden made similar kind of recommendations to the president. brennan was always -- he had great faith in the cia analysts who developed the sicircumstantl case that bin laden was in the compound and he was close to president obama. he was a strong voice for lets do the raid. yes, there are risks, but you capture or kill bin laden, you get the intelligence that you pick up there and doing nothing or doing some oth...

To be easily intimidated and i think weve seen his immediate response to the revocation of the security clearances was take to "the new york times" and say the claims there was no collusion with the russians is hogwash. thats a strong claiming from the cia director. he definitely picked a fight with somebody whos going to not be silent on these issues. >> hes certainly not afraid to speak up. you tell the story about during that time when they were obviously wanting to kill and capture osama bin...

There are people who are not politicized who are saying the president has overstepped. >> the mcraven letter was a shock to those in washington. just how strongly worded it was. this is not a partisan person making these statements. this is a guy who led the raid to kill bin laden. and had a distinguished career and has not made a habit of getting out and being political in his statements. the president, with john brennan and others have felt unfairly attacked. the reason that brennan and others...

Politicized who are saying the president has overstepped. >> the mcraven letter was a shock to those in washington. just how strongly worded it was. this is not a partisan person making these statements. this is a guy who led the raid to kill bin laden. and had a distinguished career and has not made a habit of getting out and being political in his statements. the president, with john brennan and others have felt unfairly attacked. the reason that brennan and others are speaking out, mcraven, y...

Capture and ultimately kill bin laden. what was the sort of mood down there? is the circle slowly expanding all of that secrecy that was very much adhered to. >> yes. a lot of this information was very highly compartmentalized and often the information flows were from the bottom up. there were mid-level aids that were compiling working on dozens of potential options to respond and punish or deter russia for its aggression last summer and then often get pushed up to the senior levels and up to su...

That conveyed putins specific instructions to intelligence agencies to -- to help undermine hillary clintons campaign and with the objective getting trump elect zbld you also have this extraordinary detail about how this information making its way to the president change business as usual in the sit room. i know from working there that the sit room has morins where you can see but not hear some of the goings on in the big conference room there. and those monitoring capabilities were shut down wh...

I know from working there that the sit room has morins where you can see but not hear some of the goings on in the big conference room there. and those monitoring capabilities were shut down while the meetings were going on. the last time it happened was when the raid was being planned to capture and ultimately kill bin laden. what was -- what was the sort of mood down there? i mean as the circle slowly expanded all of that secrecy was very much adhered to.