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his death sends a clear message. >> this mission was carefully planned, rigorously minimize the risk of harm to other civilians. and one week ago after being advised the conditions were optimal, i gave the final approval to go get him. no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. >> the white house has just released this photo from july, president biden meeting with his national security team in the situation room, discussing the possible operation to kill al zawahiri. reminiscent of the ph...

Test to some degree of the strategy in syria to be distinguished from past strategies in iraq and afghanistan. not a big footprint. several hundred u.s. special forces operators with a local force, this this case, the syrian democratic forces, largely kurdish fighters, carrying out pinpoint operations like this as opposed to a big ground presence. is this an indication that that strategy can work to help at least with operations like this one? >> well, yeah. this operation worked and i thought another piece of news in there, jim, the fact this was developed for many months, and as you said, th...

Spiking the football or doing an end zone dance. >> hotdogging it. >> yeah, hotdogging it when it should be a moment of national unity. our compliments should go to those on the ground who put their lives on the ground. this isn't about whether or not a previous president should have done better. i remember in the hours after the bin laden operation was successfully completed, the first person i boss, director leon panetta, told me to, was i called general mike hayden who had been george bush's cia director i said tonight, we're standing on your shoulders and the shoulders of the men and women...

And responsibility is on the war fighter, who is trained to make these calls in combat, civilians don't die. when civilians die, when your body of water with crazy rules of engagement, and that private on the frontline doesn't know if he can shoot or not. >> want to hear a messed up story? tear 1 operators on the beer bin laden operation. they shot through and a woman jumped in front of the terrorist and he shot her, too. i am rolling up on him, he is a hero, and he goes up and he said, i just shot a woman. and i go, you are thinking about going to prison right now. are you kidding me right no...

Like it's time to prepare for the worst. >> thank you. >> thank you. jeremy bash, jump in and speak about your time working for jane harman in the years when the intel community and the house and the thsenate were dealing w what we thought were imminent threats to the homeland. post-9/11 there were state secre secrets held by democrats and republicans in confidence of a republican white house. there were programs they were read into. not only did dmnone of those programs leak, the communities were the only places where were even discussed or debated or even known. how far gone is that era? >> ...