depart. so in a sense, just the initial announcement of it, you can argue and serious people have argued, really harmed the after action ability to track down the number two and the number nine and so forth, who may have been in touch with bin laden. >> yeah. >> willie. >> i want to ask you about the other element of that press conference, which was defense certificates bob gates talking whether or not pakistani government was aware whether osama bin laden was living in their midst. he said he has no evidence that points to the government itself being aware but said quote somebody knew. we had richard haass on the show yesterday saying we need to stop calling pakistan an ally, we need to stop referring to them as a friend, we need a relationship with them but they are not an ally. what do you make of that? >> i saw ron paul on your show yesterday, saying, next, we're going to occupy pakistan. i don't think that's exactly on