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Intelligence to feel confident that high value -- that that high value target was indeed osama bin laden. starting on march 14th, the president shared the first of at least nine national security council meetings to review plans for a course of action. all while congress negotiated a budget resolution to avoid a government shutdown. on friday of last week at 8:20 a.m. in the diplomatic room the president authorized the military operation to take out bin laden. before leaving to survey tornado devastation in alabama. no foreign government including pakistan was informed the operation was origin...

Operation coming in from pakistan. no one in the situation room could be certain how it would turn out. >> it was probably one of the most anxiety-filled periods of time in the lives of the people who were assembled yesterday. it was clearly a very tense. a lot of people holding their breath. and there was a fair degree of silence as it progressed as we would get the updates. >> what they ended up seeing on that realtime feed was the work of the u.s. joint special op rations command. the navy's s.e.a.l. team six led the raid. and are described by my guest as being among the most elite warriors...

Speculated on osama bin laden's location. >> people think bin laden is hiding in the hindu curb, did you know that every day from 4:00 to 5:00 he hosts a show on c-span? >> then on sunday at 2:00 p.m., the president met with military principles to review final preparations for the air assault. around 3:30 p.m. that mission began. the president and his closest aides sat in the situation room monitoring the operation in realtime. joining me now nbc news chief white house correspondent chuck todd. chuck, thank you very much for joining me tonight. i know you've got about one hour of sleep in the ...

Was he at the same time participating and directing it from cia headquarters? >> reporter: the person directing the operation is the person that is running -- that runs that special forces -- the special forces operation. i want to back up to march 29th. you've given a great time line. i'll be honest, lawrence, we've gotten a couple other briefings even in the last few hours. essentially they're doing debriefings of the men who participated in this capture and kill of bin laden. so the story continues town fold. march 29th, the president is offered an array of plans at how to go after bin lade...

>> today, at my direction, the small team of americans carried out the operation -- >> when that helicopter was seen to be unable to move, all of a sudden you had to go into plan b. and they did it flawlessly. >> i'm fascinated by the fact that there was a neighbor next to this compound tweeting -- live tweeting during the raid. go away, helicopter before i take out my giant swatter. >> d.n.a. analysis confirms with 100% certainty that in fact it was osama bin laden killed. >> by how did osama bin laden hide in plain sight for so long? >> this was not a cave. >> no. >> the united states has be...