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>> well, good for her. i know she's proud of her son. what's your biggest takeaway? >> i think a lot of things, alex. one thing is what we don't know. donilin from the white house this morning accurately laid out the notion that we've got hundreds of megabytes of information, bank accounts, names all over the world. these people are scrambling to survive now. i think the second thing is, yeah, he had strategic impact on the war. this was not the headquarters. this was an aging guy with a bunch of children and his wives and a couple of people supporting him along with his sons. so there was no ...

Including access to osama bin laden's three wives. >> clearly not shutting the door, the united states leaving open the possibility there there could have been elements within the pakistani element that were impolicen't of his presence at the compound, alex. >> how about all the controversy about waterboarding which following under the caption of interrogation techniques. what is the white house saying about that? >> donilin was asked this directly many times. dick cheney condemned or smarlly criticized obama on enhanced interrogation. enhanced interrogations has become sort of a euphemism for...

Specific lick from waterboarding. donilin would not answer that question directly. he said there's a mosaic, quote/unquote of a technique that would lead the united states to the conclusion that osama bin laden could be there. remember, again, alex, he said today, a 50/50 chance that osama bin laden was in that compound. we now know the answer though that question, alex. >> we sure do. thank you so much. enjoy the time with your family today. >> thank you. let's go now live to islamabad. peter, what's the reaction to the new videos. >> reporter: alex, happy mother's day to you from islamabad...

Al zawahiri lacks the charisma to follow bin laden. there are still questions as to what the pakistani government may have known about bin laden's whereabouts before that raid on the compound in abat a bad. but they suggest there may have been some elements of the pakistani military and intelligence services that knew and serious questions are now being raised. back to you. >> thank you so much, jim miklaszewski. let's go to the white hou. that's where nbc's mike viqueira is joining me. a good sunday morning to you, my friend. >> happy mother's day, alex. >> thanks so much. let's get to who kn...

There's no secret in the immediate aftermarket of that dramatic announcement that the president made behind me a week ago today that suspicions have been raised. there is no possible way implicit of a lot of government official, no possible a way that the government of pakistan could not have known at least some of the el managements. could not have known that osama bin laden was there after all, just a matter of a mile or two from the military academy in pakistan. donilin was asked about this this morning by david gregory on "meet the press," and here's what he had to say. >> we've had differ...