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Chuck, the situation was being monitored in the situation room by the president. was pinetta in a separate location at cia headquarters? was he at the same time participating and directing it from cia headquarters? >> reporter: the person directing the operation is the person that is running -- that runs that special forces -- the special forces operation. i want to back up to march 29th. youve given a great time line. ill be honest, lawrence, weve gotten a couple other briefings even in the las...

Location at cia headquarters? was he at the same time participating and directing it from cia headquarters? >> reporter: the person directing the operation is the person that is running -- that runs that special forces -- the special forces operation. i want to back up to march 29th. youve given a great time line. ill be honest, lawrence, weve gotten a couple other briefings even in the last few hours. essentially theyre doing debriefings of the men who participated in this capture and kill of b...

Coming or there until they were already on the job and on the operation. obviously a 40-minute fire fight and operation did cause a pakistani response and thats obviously why the americans left the country very quickly and did not inform the pakistani government what they had done until they were out of pakistan. trust is absolutely the key issue. it would have been an enormous surprise if the americans decided that they could trust the pakistanis with an information as vital for the most wanted...

But the skies over pakistan at any given moment are just have predator drones as thick as flies. and date baggiing back to the o attacks on afghanistan in 2001, those feeds have been available not only to the white house, but here to the pentagon and certainly the cia. so i suspect thats what the president and his entire staff were watching last night. >> well, an incredible moment inside of the situation room, and jim, at the moment they received word at the ground 3:55 eastern that osama bin l...

Those reports, however, are difficult to confirm. they may be the rebels wishful thinking. they are making some gains militarily and there was just a press conference a short while ago and a spokesperson for the rebel movement here said that the introduction of american predator drones has helped significantly and made the -- made their advances -- given them a marked improvement was the word he used. there is a sense of momentum and progress. also, we have started to see tv we heard this from t...

Yes, i thought that. let me ask you about misrata. a retreat by the government forces, by gadhafi there that seemed to surprise even the rebels. there was something of a comeback by them. how do youthen. how do you see that fight going over in misrata? we have it on the map. >> reporter: misrata has been described as a massacre, what happened over the weekend. gadhafis forces pulled back, the rebels became very excited, they were claiming victory, even people here in benghazi started to celebrat...

Mediterranean sea as well. the reason why this is so important, because over the weekend, two predator drones were given to nato to -- given to nato to fly over 24 hours a die and -- day and patrol this entire area. in the east, the rebels, they still hold on to benghazi, it is firmly theirs at the moment. the big battle appears to be misurata, the misurata, that has been under seige now for about a month. now, over the weekend, qaddafi forces, for whatever reason, started pulling back and away ...

Armed version, the reaper, is a medium endurance, unmanned aerial vehicle, which means you dont have a pilot in it. its got six hard points, you can put weapons on there, fully load it, its got about 14 hours endurance, and the beauty of these things is that since there is no air threat or surface to air threat, you can operate these things with relative impunity, and instead of having pilots who are living over there in theater, flying these missions, 24 hours a day, what you can do is you can ...

Fight over president obamas health care reform, will apparently now go to the proper legal or normal legal channels after the supreme court announced moments ago it will not expedite a major lawsuit out of virginia challenging the constitutionality of that law. from virginia they wanted the lawsuit to go straight to the u.s. supreme court to offer clarity on what the course is for the law and whether or not it will be implemented or declared unconstitutional. the efforts now to put that on the f...

>> reporter: libya government tv says it was an attempt to kill moammar gadhafi himself. thats exactly what one prominent u.s. lawmaker insists is the key. >> i think the focus should be to cut the head of the snake off. >> reporter: fresh off a surprise contribute to libya, senator john mccain does not support targeting gadhafi. while unmanned predator drones are keeping up the heat, senator mccain says the united states should unleash hell from above. >> we hope that gadhafi will crumble from ...