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>> dana: welcome back. as america remembers 9/11 20 years later we look at the new book "countdown bin laden and he is hosting a new special on how we hunted down the most wanted terrorist in the world. watch here. >> we found a thing on this thing is in a house and the house is in a bowl and the bowl and the mountains are in a country and you guys are going to go and get this thing. well what's the thing? we can't tell you. what wears the ball? what we can't tell you. how are we getting there? we can't tell you. how much air support? none. that's our only answer, no air support. and that's ho...

Of the most daring and important missions in the history of the u.s. military. as bad as a lot of us feel about the way we got out of afghanistan, this is the success story. he caught the man they went for. the architect, the mastermind of 9/11. >> shannon: there's always been this narrative that then vice president, now president biden was not in favor of moving forward on the mission to get bin laden. fact or fiction, from your research? >> oh, no. it's fact. on august 28, rather april 28, 2 days or three days before the mission, the president is in the situation room. the final recommendati...

Opposite. first of all, this painstaking, never giving up effort by the intel community that results in a lead that's given to leon panetta on august 27, 2010. his people in the pakistan-afghan counterterrorism department tell him that they have found, they think may be a courier to bin laden to a mysterious compound. on september 10, 1 day short of the ninth anniversary of 9/11, the cia briefs the president. it starts dozens of briefings and meetings in a situation room and throughout the administration of the course of eight months. then they bring the military in and they plan it. it was a ...

What did you find out that was the most surprising or unknown thing about the whole thing? >> two points, one is the seals. i talked to two of the seals including rob o'neill, member of seal team 6 who killed bin laden. he said we thought it was a one-way ticket. i said a one-way ticket? he said it was a suicide mission. if bin laden was there, we were certain the compound was going to be booby trapped we would be blown up. if that didn't happen we climbed up the three stories in the main villa to wear without bin laden was, there would be al qaeda bodyguards who would take us out. they still ...

Colleagues is taking a fresh look at the untold story of the 247 day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice. let's bring the author of "countdown bin laden," fox news sunday anchor chris wallace. >> great to be back with you. thanks for having me on to talk about the book. >> shannon: right now we're looking at this to the lens of this chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan, the news of americans left behind. critics on the left, center, and right. what you talk about in the book is what happens when everything works together. intel, military, the administration. tell us what you found. ...