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To stand with those who stood with us. i have a friend who was in and out of afghanistan a lot. he had a number of interpreters. he was attempting to get one of his interpreters out, not in kabul, but he didnt get him out because the taliban took him into custody, brought all of his family together, brought together witnesses and then killed him in front of his family before killing every member of his family except the 10-year-old daughter who was given to a taliban warrior as an arranged bride...

Ready to go to alabama to view storm damage. chris: president obama made his decision, the raid was a go. >> i remember thinking to myself, wow, that is bold decision. >> i remember saying, bill, i said, i want you to go in. get bin laden and get the hell out. >> with this weighing on your mind, you had to go to white house correspondent dinner, drink, laugh and pretend nothing was going on in the world, how tough was that. >> decision was made we should show up for the dinner. if we didnt peopl...

Ready to go to alabama to view storm damage. chris: president obama made his decision, the raid was a go. >> i remember thinking to myself, wow, that is bold decision. >> i remember saying, bill, i said, i want you to go in. get bin laden and get the hell out. >> with this weighing on your mind, you had to go to white house correspondent dinner, drink, laugh and pretend nothing was going on in the world, how tough was that. >> decision was made we should show up for the dinner. if we didnt peopl...

60, one individual said 90% bin laden was there. chris: one adviser who spoke against the raid was joe biden. >> i felt strongly that president was betting his president see. and by that, were a year and a half from the next election. if he had gotten it wrong, if bin laden were not there or. fouled up, i think my own judgment then it could have cost him his presidency. chris: president put aside all percentages and said it was a 50/50 call whether bin laden was in the compound, he told the team...

60, one individual said 90% bin laden was there. chris: one adviser who spoke against the raid was joe biden. >> i felt strongly that president was betting his president see. and by that, were a year and a half from the next election. if he had gotten it wrong, if bin laden were not there or. fouled up, i think my own judgment then it could have cost him his presidency. chris: president put aside all percentages and said it was a 50/50 call whether bin laden was in the compound, he told the team...

Effective counterinsurgency campaign requires, quote, a level of local knowledge that i dont have about my own ho hometown. not about his own hometown, let alone about afghan villages nestled in the hindu kush. >> we would breach a compound and someone would run out with an ak-47, and as our rules of engagement allowed, we would salute shoot and kill them. almost every compound had an ak-47. if someone came in your living room right now and you had an ak-47, you might go to defend your family. s...

Individual we were kuconducting the raid without firing a shot. but if you run that many raids, something is going to go bad. there were some horrible mistakes. >> mistakes meaning innocent civilians, wounded or killed. brown university watson institute for international public affairs mestimates more than 48,000 civilians lost their lives. 47,000, no matter what stories we told ourselves about why those mistakes happen, its that number, not the battles the u.s. won or in schools that the u.s. b...

To stand with those who stood with us. i have a friend who was in and out of afghanistan a lot. he had a number of interpreters. he was attempting to get one of his interpreters out, not in kabul, but he didnt get him out because the taliban took him into custody, brought all of his family together, brought together witnesses and then killed him in front of his family before killing every member of his family except the 10-year-old daughter who was given to a taliban warrior as an arranged bride...

Bravery of our armed forces for an inside look at the raid chris wallace joins us. he, of course, is a fox news anchor and author of new book, countdown bin laden which chronicles the month leading to the daring raid that killed bin laden. chris, its been very emotional and poignant day in shanksville and the pentagon, what are your thoughts as we observe this 20th year? chris: well, i think -- i dont know that it surprises me, eric, was bun of the things listening to the relatives of the victim...