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Osama bin laden being within the walls, the gates, of their country. it is also worth noting over the last several days we are seeing for the first time some of the intelligence gathered from that location including five videos of the americans passed out without audio that shows bin laden -- [ no audio. ] >> reporter: the latest in a long line of osama bin ladens videos but these tapes the u.s. government wants you to see. armed only with a tv remote, bin laden appears to be an old man watching...

This was an intelligence failure, but they say it is a failure that the entire world should share the blame for. with the new release of those videos youve been discussing, we are seeing these five individual videos with the audio removed, and as we have noted, they show bin laden less as than world famous notorious terrorist, but more like a prisoner in his own home. they are the latest in a long line of osama bin laden videos. but these tapes the u.s. government wants you to see, armed only wi...

To take a different approach. im not getting e-mails from three and four-star generals. actually its better. im getting e-mails from the captains and the majors and lieutenant colonels, meaning the coming generation of military leadership. and that really gives me hope that if we could have a serious debate about national security in this country, we may actually find that members of the officer corps are supportive of change that will be in the interest of the country as a whole. >> do you thin...

Im not getting e-mails from three and four-star generals. actually its better. im getting e-mails from the captains and the majors and lieutenant colonels, meaning the coming generation of military leadership. and that really gives me hope that if we could have a serious debate about national security in this country, we may actually find that members of the officer corps are supportive of change that will be in the interest of the country as a whole. >> do you think its likely that we could hav...

Things about her, when you actually get to meet her, is she has met every head of state, every leader going back to the 50s and she knows so much. youre told not to talk to her about she engages in conversation about things about world politics, foreign policy. she really is a very knowledgeable observer. >> well, and part of the constitutional duty of a monarch is to advise, to encourage, and to warn, and shes had 12 prime ministers since sir winston churchill who shes done all three of those t...

Opposition forces and theyre meeting him in paris today where hes likely to hear the same thing a lot of our sources are telling us, that rebel troops in benghazi are frustrated, actually. they say theyre badly in need of money and weapons now in order to hold off moammar gadhafis military. our zain verjee is live in london this morning with more details about this meeting. weve heard their pleas, saying that nato countries arent really doing enough to help them. >> they are so frustrated with n...

But more broadly its what this campaign is about. >> now, chris, what effect will this s&p downgrade going to have. democrats jay carney addressed it at the briefing saying its because of all these threats to not raise the debt ceiling. who wins that debate? >> you know, andrea, i think this is why its so politically fascinating, although sort of globally potentially disastrous. we dont know. you know, i think both sides will make their cases. for me just as kind of an observer of this, it seems...

Ill use every penny i save from closing loopholes to do further tax cuts for people at the top by lowering their top rate. not the george bushs 35%, but all the way down to 25%. very big differences between these plans. >> howard, in the politics of the two plans, the white house sounds confident about their ability to win the medicare argument, but i would think that the republicans feel very confident about winning the tax argument, since the republican plan has a tax cut in it, and the tax cu...

And in the loophole area, he says ill close loopholes, but ill use every penny i save from closing loopholes to do further tax cuts for people at the top by lowering their top rate. not the george bushs 35%, but all the way down to 25%. very big differences between these plans. >> in the politics of the two plans, the white house sounds confident about their ability to wing the medicare argument. i would think that the republicans feel very confident about winning the tax argument, since the rep...

And in the loophole area, he says ill close loopholes, but ill use every penny i save from closing loopholes to do further tax cuts for people at the top by lowering their top rate. not the george bushs 35%, but all the way down to 25%. very big differences between these plans. >> in the politics of the two plans, the white house sounds confident about their ability to wing the medicare argument. i would think that the republicans feel very confident about winning the tax argument, since the rep...