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korea plans to launch a long-range rocket. why tensions are soaring ahead of a world nuclear summit. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com on this, the eve of a key gop primary in louisiana, rick santorum is charging hard. polls show him as a double digit favorite there, but santorum is also on the defensive today. he's taking a lot of heat from his rivals for hinting that reelecting barack obama might -- might be preferable to electing mitt romney. listen to this. >> you win by giving people a choice. you win by giving people the o...

Waterboarding is not torture and they say the obama administration is still, well, they're taking too much of a law enforcement approach to terrorism. so what are the senate republicans going to do about it? they've actually blocked president obama's choice as deputy attorney general. his name is james cole. mr. cole is serving in that role right now as a recess appointment by the president but, of course, his tenure will expire at the end of the year if republicans don't stop playing politics. senate judiciary committee chairman pat leahy a democrat said for the first time in history a nomine...

It just never stops, does it? let's bring in counterterrorism intelligence expert and former master instructor and chief of the training at the navy's school malcolm nance. survival evasion resistance and escape. this man wrote the book. good to see you tonight. >> good to be here. >> president obama just made the call to take down osama bin laden. and republicans are throwing a temper tantrum by blocking the confirmation of the deputy attorney general. what do you say about that? >> you know, i live in the middle east and every time i come back to the united states there is always something t...

Allow -- give al qaeda some sort of propaganda to make the point that we got these -- procured these at the compound where bin laden was living and that we -- know now what he was up to. joining me now counterterrorism intelligence expert and ceo of intel center. ben, thanks for joining me tonight. what is the impact of the release of these videos on al qaeda when they see, jay carney was say, we want to show them we really did collect material there. and in fact, we collected a lot more. the videos are just the tip of a giant iceberg of material collected. and so who are they really showing...

Of propaganda to make the point that we got these -- procured these at the compound where bin laden was living and that we -- know now what he was up to. joining me now counterterrorism intelligence expert and ceo of sbel center. ben, thanks for joining me tonight. what is the impact of the release of these videos on al qaeda when they see, jay carney was say, we want to show them we really did collect material there. and in fact, we collected a lot more. the videos are just the tip of a giant iceberg of material collected. and so who are they really showing these videos to? >> well, i think...