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Navy seals against the compound we thought in a, abbotabad we thought might house bin laden. there was a split in advisors. eventually the president makes the decision. i supported doing what we could to support our european and arab partners in their effort on humanitarian basis, a strategic basis, to prevent qadaffi from launching and carrying out massachusetts curse. >> there was another obstacle thaw overcame and thats with the arabs themselves. jake sullivan sent you an email and he said this. i think you should call, it will be painful ten minutes but you will be the one who delivered ar...

Intense discussion about whether to launch the navy s.e.a.l.s against the compound in which we thought might house osama bin laden. eventually the president makes the decision. i did what i could to support our european and arab partners in their effort on a humanitarian basis, a strategic basis to prevent gadhafi from launching and carrying out massachusetts kmass massacres. there was another obstacle, the arabs. jake sullivan sent you an e-mail and he said this, i think you should call. it will be a painful ten minutes but you will be the one who delivered arab support. that's a jake mullen ...

Syria. qatar said it was going to support. so i think now the administration is trying to rally around the g-20 statement, getting arab support. you saw earlier in the weekend in lithuania, all 28 european foreign military leaders signed on to a statement calling for a strong military approach. it looks like they're looking better than the one in congress. >> i wonder, were there any concerns expressed by the international community by kerry why they won't be more committed than just kind of lip service. >> reporter: a couple of things. i think first of all there are a lot of different countri...

Let's not be casual about things very, very serious. >> andrea, the president it struck me when i was listening to the press conference when he said if some of these folks think it's time to launch a war they should say so and explain to the american people exactly why they would do that and what the consequences would be. everything else is just talk. almost angry but mostly sort of strong-sounding comments from the president. i wonder if you're hearing from the white house that is connected to the way the president has been talking about ending the iraq war as one of his accomplishments when...

Bases that are currently crucial. >> if arab support is crucial and it is crucial in this situation, who are they saying they would rather see take the lead in this? >> well, it's not clear. obviously the arab league want to make sure that they have some kind of involvement in this. there's reluctance on the part of the arab countries, particularly the arab league to contribute forces to a mission that would be run by the nato military alliance because of the negative associations that nato alliance has with its campaign in afghanistan and involvements in other wars, as well. and so the idea i...