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When mitt romney says, it's a no brainer. any thinking american would have made that decision. we know that that was not the case. there was apprehension to the very last minute there. >> there was. and i want to clarify one remark. jim miklaszewski corrected me this morning, wanted to make sure we had a fuller context of what gates's objection was. it was not of taking out the compound but he was against the idea of sending troop in on the ground, doing the helicopter raid. instead, using basically doing an air strike, if you will. look, there were all sorts. it wasn't just making the decisio...

Decision to activate seal team six to take out osama bin laden was a great decision. just about every u.s. president would have made that decision. >> why do you say that? can we stop here? it's public record. defense secretary robert gates, vice president biden and a couple of others in that room. it was a 55/45 call. >> there is only one person who there is lots of disagreement in matters of foreign peace. the president has to make the call. the president of the united states is told we have someone who seems to resemble osama bin laden. the intelligence points it's osama bin laden. it's our...

In an interview, the president talked about the risks of the operation phase going into pakistan. >> as outstanding a job as our intelligence teams did, and i cannot praise them enough, they did an extraordinary job with just the slenderest of bits of information to piece this all together. at the end of the day, this was still a 55/45 situation. i mean, we could not say definitively that bin laden was there. had he not been there, then there would have been some significant consequences. >> 55/45 most certainly is not definitive. in addition to the dangers that accompanied the mission, presid...