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Did you see any children. >> no. >> did you see anything in the background that caught your eyes? >> interesting in the background how he was sitting on the floor with the blanket around them. it's clearly cold, a woollen blanket, a black cap on and gestured to the person that's videotaping them. point the camera at me while i watch myself on tv. he clearly, carefully guarded his image. it's interesting we're told that he had a gray beard when he was killed and in these videos which were taken not that long ago, possibly, what one of them they've-- the only one of them did they have a basic ti...

Dissension in al-qaeda as to whether in fact he will be the leader who takes over. because they have found, and he they didn't reveal their means, but says he's known within the organization, zawahiri, as being ultra controlling, as well as not very charismatic. so there's an open question about who will take over after bin laden and you notice in the statement that was released yesterday by al-qaeda, that there was no mention of who the successor would be and so, there was some interesting details revealed about what al-qaeda thinks about zawahiri and it's not clear whether they gleaned that ...

Pakistan recalibrates and finds a new locker. awlaki is a digital jihadist, making contact with western recruits not only in europe and the u.k., but here in the united states. there have been half a dozen plots in the united states where attempted plots in the united states and also in canada you can see awlaki's fingerprints. so he is certainly considered an important player and this explains why this week there was a cruise missile attack in yemen and the target we confirmed was anwar awlaki. to be clear that was not related to what was recovered in compound in pakistan, it was separate, bu...

Briefing. based on instant dna analysis as well and that was based on dna they had from his mother and three sons, that they had on hand, and you know, at headquarters, they were able to say within 1 in 14.8 quadrillion. that was the only -- they were essentially saying they had 99.9% match when they were there at the compound. and so, this was really, designed to try to put to rest any notion that this may not have been bin laden. but what's interesting about these videos is showing him in his habitat, if you will, it's very clear that he's sitting on the floor of this compound. these are vid...

Said that, waleed, we need to keep up the pressure on al-qaeda to keep disrupting and dismantling that. walid phares, thank you, jamie? >> we hear about the amount of intelligence that's been collected from the compound and now the process is sifting through. joining me now, chad sweet former chief of staff for former homeland security security michael chertoff, former cia official as well and managing principal of the chertoff group. thank you so much, chad. >> thank you. >> jamie: you're joining us on the phone and you appreciate it and it's important to get the perspective of how big a task...