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>> senator john barrasso, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thanks, chuck. thanks savannah. the united states and their allies are keeping their eyes on hot beds on terrorism. how about afghanistan where bin laden spent so much of his time? back in kabul with more on that is atia. what is the reaction on the ground? i know you've been back just a short time. >> well, the reaction, you'll get mixed opinions, particularly with the people. one thing you'll get from the afghan officials as well as the u.s. military is that it was a big game. but one common denominator that you will see w...

Lot from these computers. >> senator, i should read you part of an op ed. president zardari blames the media. he says some in the u.s. media suggest pakistan lacked vitality in its pursuit of terrorism or worse yet that we were disingenuous and actually protected the terrorists that we were pursing. it doesn't reflect fact. pakistan has reason to despise al qaeda. in fairness to president zardari, the civilian leadership seems to want to be supportive. it's been this issue with the pakistani intelligence, the isi. >> well, we sure don't have all of the information. we're going to look for it. ...

>> well, i don't think we know but i think the computer they found with osama bin laden is going to give us a lot more information. i'm much more interested in seeing the contents of that computer than i am with the video of what happened in that compound. but let me tell you, chuck, last night i was at the white house with the president. i congratulated him personally. the applause was long, it was sincere, and bipartisan support of what has occurred they have made all of america proud. >> senator, obviously people are thinking about the billions in aid that they have received and thinking ab...

What did the pakistanis know? when did they know it? what was the relationship between the pakistani military, the secret group as you've talked about, as well as the government between them and osama bin laden because it does seem and americans who have looked at videos of this compound have to think they had to have known that he was there. >> senator, what do you think this will mean for the war in afghanistan? certainly some will say, we have gotten osama bin laden. that was the organizing unifying principle behind going into afghanistan. in addition to not having a safe haven for al qaeda...

People out. i think it's more important to keep good people in. and to find out who they are and reward them. pay them well and you have to have differentiated pay and pay some more than others. >> senator michael bennet, senator lamar alexander, randi weingarten, thank you and steve perry as well. i have to have you back because i'm not sure we have solutions but we do know what the problems are. we started the conversation anyway. thank you all so much for joining us. we'll be right back. i'm good about washing my face. but sometimes i wonder... what's left behind?