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>> well he obviously was receiving some kind of support, but while for instance in the united states the white house the pentagon the state department, cia all work together in pakistan there are huge riffal ris between the military and the siisi, the political factions. they keep information from each other, especially the intelligence agencies. i would look to them as one of those that probably knew about this complicity with bin laden. now, pakistan is still very important to us because of their location, because we're fighting al qaeda, we're fighting terrorism, the war in afghanistan. so ...

U.s. officials have been careful to say that the pakistanis have paid a very dear price in terms of fighting terrorism. they need to know essentially who they can trust and who they cannot trust. you're also dealing with an ally in a part of the world where if you don't like the government you kill the leader and you start over, and so they do not want to diminish the pakistani leadership and at the same time they are asking for answers, jon. jon: mike emanuel at the white house with very thorny questions still being asked. mike, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. jon: president obama's inner ...

Along the mississippi river to save one town hurt them in the process. earlier i spoke to our legal analyst, sunny hostin, about their case. but we also first talked about the bin laden raid. specifically, some are asking, was it legal for the u.s. to go into a sovereign country unannounced? >> under international law, in order for a country to do something like the united states did, they have to show that pakistan either was unwilling to intervene or incapable of intervening. and in support of that, there are reports that bin laden was living there from five to six years. and there was a mil...

U.s. should use the moment to build ties with pakistan and not back away. but the speaker did say the u.s. should have an eyeball to eyeball conversation with the pakistanis about their role in fighting terrorism. bret? >> bret: mike emanuel live on the north lawn. thank you. we're continuing to follow the timeline of intelligence that eventually led to sunday's strike on the bin laden cop pound. -- compound. national correspondent catherine herridge tells all what she has learned so far. >> reporter: they describe the mosaic of intelligence of bin laden as pakistanmy compound. the initial thr...

>> i sure hope so, anderson. my view is this is a perfect time for us to have aanother 9/11 commission, a post-9/11 commission. let's look back at everything we've done over the last decade -- >> not to look back at 9/11 but everything that's been done since. >> ever since. basically, let's take stock. we are not the united states of fighting terrorism, either. our day is not september 11th. our day is the 4th of july. and it seems to me we've built this huge national security edifice now, that we need to aalso take stock of. what are we really doing in afghanistan? is it really worth $110 bil...