looks to me like you know we all owe him same sense of satisfaction that i'm sure they feel. >> reporter: are we safer now? >> i think so. but it's a -- kind of situation where we need to preserve our sense of vigilance, if you will. it could be a big mistake to assume that it's taken care of, it's all over with. there's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the united states and for us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we've got bin laden that we missed the next attack would be a terrible tragedy. >> reporter: cheney gives credit to obama for getting bin laden but -- >> i mean it's not just on one day you get up bang and you get osama bin laden. an awful lot of people over a long period of time, thousands of them, worked this case and worked these issues and followed up on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so forth.