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All acknowledge, no one really thinks that a speech is a magical decree, that the speech means that all of a sudden magic is going to strike washington and everything he asked for is going to happen. >> do people remember these speeches other than the length of one? >> yes, they certainly remember the image, how the president looked. he looked confident and optimistic. but he set himself up to deliver without congress. this president, who has used fewer executive orders than reagan or clinton or...

Is going to strike washington and everything he asked for is going to happen. >> do people remember these speeches other than the length of one? >> yes, they certainly remember the image, how the president looked. he looked confident and optimistic. but he set himself up to deliver without congress. this president, who has used fewer executive orders than reagan or clinton or bush has set himself up for powerful executive action. >> coming out as we were just discussing the most emotional moment...

Details of a possible attack on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 as well as plans to strike washington, new york, chicago, and los angeles. >> i think this is as significant as the death of bin laden, whats found with him. its a treasure trove and the fact that the president made the decision not to go in and bomb the place means we have this rich amount of data coming out of there which will make people safer and give us a better sense of what was happening internally within al qaeda. >> reporter:...

Gunships which can put a bullet on every inch of a football field. >> the amount of ordinance dropped over a period of two weeks almost defies belief. the mountains were rearranged. >> reporter: from a radio, word of a dead al qaeda fighter. the americans hear bin laden try to rally the men. >> we hear him apologize to them for having led them to an area where they are having air strikes on them relentlessly. >> reporter: with bin laden in the crosshairs, berntsen wants u.s. forces sent in to fi...

Days of december i would write a message back to washington recommending the insertion of u.s. forces on the ground. i was looking for 600 to 800 rangers, roughly a battalion. they never came. >> reporter: instead, the u.s. relies on its hired guns. >> yeah. it was not a professional military force by any stretch of the imagination. some of them took bribes from members of al qaeda to look the other way. >> reporter: outsourcing fails. bin laden vanishes into the mountains. >> he was there. we w...

Then they go for bin laden. >> first shot is to his chest, he moves back from the impact and they shoot him very quickly above the left eye in the forehead. this is the classic double tap. two rapid nearly simultaneous shots. the target is dead. he falls to the floor. >> reporter: in the situation room, the presidents team is still holding their breath. >> nobody knows whats going on until admiral mcraven is able to report back to washington that they have gotten him. that they have bin laden an...

Details of a possible attack on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 as well as plans to strike washington, new york, chicago, and los angeles. >> i think this is as significant as the death of bin laden, whats found with him. its a treasure trove and the fact that the president made the decision not to go in and bomb the place means we have this rich amount of data coming out of there which will make people safer and give us a better sense of what was happening internally within al qaeda. >> reporter:...

By all accounts he reels backwards from the impact and then they shoot him very quickly above the left eye in the forehead. this is the classic double-tap. two rapid nearly simultaneous shots. the target is dead. he falls to the floor. >> reporter: in the situation room, the presidents team is still holding their breath. >> and nobody knows whats going on until admiral mcraven is able to report back to washington that theyve gotten him. that they have bin laden. and hes dead. >> reporter: but it...

>> we brought in specter gunships that can put a bullet on every inch of a football field. >> the amount of ordinance that was dropped in the area over two weeks almost defies belief. the mountains were rearranged. >> reporter: the radio stripped from a dead al qaeda fighter, the americans hear bill bin laden trying to rally his men. >> we listen to him apologizing for having led them to this trap and where they were having air strikes called on them relentlessly. >> reporter: with bin laden in ...

Devices, even bin ladens diary. we already know there are details of a possible attack on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 as well as plans to strike washington, new york, chicago, and los angeles. >> i think this is as significant as the death of bin laden, whats found with him. its a treasure trove and the fact that the president made the decision not to go in and bomb the place means we have this rich amount of data coming out of there which will make people safer and give us a better sense of w...