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It's from january 21st, 2010. president obama and his economic team were talking with reporters about financial reform. now here's more of the video released saturday. it showed bin laden in more formal attire. clearly, these were videos that he was making. these are sort of outtakes of them. an intelligence official says the audio was removed from all the videos so bin laden's message wouldn't be spread. and frankly if we did hear audio and he was spreading his message i wouldn't be airing these videos right now. other than the missing audio the official says the video was not altered in any ...

>> we came out of a briefing with a senior intelligence official, who showed us five videos that were confiscated from the pound of bin laden and show bin laden in various videos, they took the audio off the videos because they did not want to be releasing any sort of messages, but what's most fascinating about this is that he in one of the videos, he's shown watching himself on television, he's on al-jazeera, there's a satellite, satellite, it looks like a satellite channel and clicking until, and he's watching himself in the classic videos that we've seen played over and over during the past...

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Showing that he was living in spartan conditions and far from the mansion as it was described. >> we see these different images. somewhere osama looks younger with a dyed beard. then image was the graying beard. i guess is this to -- prove to everyone he wasn't as young, macho, strong as he would like to have been seen worldwide? >> absolutely. i believe that's why they released these different images to show the difference between the younger looking osama bin laden and the older looking osama bin laden with the gray beard. who, by the way, had that gray beard at the time the navy s.e.a.l.s k...

Is that we're told that when he was killed, he had a very gray beard and in one of the videos where he's watching himself on tv he had a gray beard. but in the videos that he was broadcasting to, to his followers and being sent by courier to broadcast to the world, he would take great pains to dye his beard black so he didn't look like he was aging. so that's something. >> jamie: let me jump in here for a second. because you have followed this story of al-qaeda for many places around the world and now you've had a chance to see these videos. i'm curious what your personal thoughts were when yo...