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Adrenalin that they're feeling at that hospitamoment? >> as he said, s.e.a.l.s train for years. and prior to this operation, these men would have undergone practice numerous, numerous times in order to develop specific take practice for this target. they were trained for years and they were able to rely on the training that the american people have made apa tremendous invest nmt all of these s.e.a.l.s and we saw yesterday that that investment paid off. >> certainly have been able to keep their cool on such an important mission as this one is certainly impressive. obviously they do have some pr...

Intelligence officials were quick to point out that they were on the ground during the operation by the americans. that was subsequently denied by the americans and then denied by the same pakistani sources. so there was an immediate rush to have seemed to have been involved really in this quite remarkable american operation. which pakistanis are saying in fact actually began undetected. helicopters flu in, got over the compound before pakistani air defenses were aware they had arrived. obviously a 40 minute gunfire ensued. but this was an immediate rush by pakistan to hook like it was on site...

Of the operation from the commencement to the time of the extraction of the remains and the egress off of the target. it was probably one of the most anxiety-filled periods of time in the lives of the people who were assembled here yesterday. the minutes passed like days. the president was very concerned about the security of our personnel. that is what was on his mind throughout and we wanted to make sure that we were able to get through this and accomplish the mission, but it was clearly tense, and lot of of people holding their breath, and there was a fair degree of silence as it progressed...

Not apparently informed about this military operation, was there an actual concern that they might actually take military action against the navy s.e.a.l.s? >> we didn't contact the pakistanis until after all of our people and aircraft were out of pakistani air space. at that time they were reacting to an incident they knew was taking place in abottabad and clearly we were concerned that if they decided to scramble jets or whatever else, they had no idea who was on the jets whether it was u.s. or somebody else, so we were watching and making sure that our people and aircraft were able to get o...

Clear that this was osama bin laden and that he had been killed? do you remember the president's words or reaction from it? >> well, i want to say it became clear and one of the things that we had to do throughout the course of the operation is that when the individuals who carried out assault knew they had who appeared to be osama bin laden, and other things the facial recognition, and the height and the dna analysis and the incremental build-up and the confidence was building up, but at what point are you confident that you have the person that you are af. so it was more of a growing sense o...