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unfolding diplomatic crisis. and why do women only make 77 cents on the dollar compared to men? i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." tomorrow marks one year since the u.s. mission that killed osama bin laden and today the terror leader's name is popping up out there on the campaign trail. the romney and obama campaigns are each trying to paint their candidate as the toughest, but for team romney, it's a built of an uphill battle right now. our national political correspondent jim acosta is watching all this unfold. what's going on in this fight? >> for months, mitt r...

They were getting support from local terrorist groups, like the one that planned the mumbai attacks several years ago and support from elements within pakistan's own security operators, the military, notorious intelligence agency, the isi. it's partly why the u.s. started conducting its own operations like the drone strikes in pakistan without letting the authorities know because they were worried about leak age of information. bin laden could not have been living in an urban center without the knowledge of pakistan's intelligence establishment. >> what is the fallout from that? how does that ...

They ought to demand accountability and clear explanations from bureaucrats likeke john brennan and from the agencies he once worked for.ea but they are not. instead, they have become, brennan's faithful handmaidens, arguing he and his colleagues in the intelligence world are not bound by the same rules you and i are. the intelligence establishment does what it wants, they tell w us. your job is to obey. o they are in charge, they spy on you without limit, you accept a life without privacy. don't complain, insolence isim disloyalty, dissent is treason. that is the message on every other channe...

Remind people that the last time donald trump went to war with an establishment, that was the intelligence establishment. he started that back in december. that did not work out for him well. i don't think this is going to work out for him well either. >> preet bharara, who was the united states attorney for the southern district of new york, who was fired by donald trump early in the administration, tweeted tonight" the president today effectively asked sessions for his resignation. will he resign or insist on being fired? mieke, what should jeff sessions do now? >> i think that jeff sessions...

Matter, seems to give much more credibility to julian assange than he does to the collected wisdom of the american intelligence establishment. that is not applying skepticism in kind of a healthy way. >> then how do we possibly take his last tweet, where he says, you know, wi really like the intelligence agencies. i'm sorry, what. >> he says he likes intelligence, in quotes. that's literally what he says. >> he also says he's like a smart rson. so the like is the -- >> but here's the thing, with donald trump. he can tell you at 9:00 a.m., the sky is blue and 9:05 say, i never said that. and is...