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0 our prayers go to you and your family, sarah. >> thank you very much. >> and finally, tonight, the factor tip of the day. when you prepare for debate have the facts on your side, unless you live on mars, by now you know that o'reilly got into it with alan colmes earlier this week and friends were e-mailing me about it. bill challenged alan to come up with a concrete proposal by the president to cut spending. bill's point the president will not put forth any specifics. well, today the lead editorial in the wall street journal examines the president's plan and draws the same conclusion. there ...

Suppress that force that was attacking them. this is disgraceful. >> steve: you know what, gary? the back story is, or the most important aspect of this story is that this attack happened just about two months before a big presidential election. and the president and his men and women have been pushing what many of us feel is a big lie, that al-qaeda is on its heels. we saw al-qaeda is not on its heels and so for many, politically, it looks like this was a political calculation, you were in the spy business at the cia. what's it look like to you? >> well, what it does, what happened in benghaz...

president obama saying one year after the death of osama bin laden that crushing al qaeda is within reach. but a car bomb that killed six people after air force one was wheels up certainly a tough reminder that there's a long way to go in that country. we still don't know how much longer the u.s. troops are really going to be necessary or how much this whole thing could continue to cost us. and, of course, there are the politics surrounding this story that just cannot be avoided. we're covering all of the angles this morning. we begin with cnn's nick paton-walsh live in kabul. first ...

facility and will be reunited with his family. these developments coming while secretary of state hillary clinton and treasury secretary timothy geithner are in beijing preparing for economic and strategic meetings with chinese leaders beginning on thursday. it's not clear how the chen case might influence those talks, but this was starting to become a sticky situation between the u.s. and china. china now reportedly demanding an apology from the u.s. for sheltering the activist. we'll have a live report from beijing in the next half hour. our other big story of the morning. new qu...

now the workers are coming in. it's a historic day in lower manhattan. >> here's what we know now about the secret mission that took out the world's most notorious terrorist, osama bin laden. the al qaeda commander was shot in the head during a fire fight with american forces early sunday morning. one of bin laden's sons and two of his couriers were killed and a woman described as a human shield. the operation was carried out with the cooperation of pakistani officials. >> osama bin laden was not found in a cave, on a mountain in that region between pakistan and afghanistan. instead,...