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Lost navy seals -- but a bold decision and calling up the director of the cia and saying put this in a memo, or somebody from the white house saying put this in a memo, this is what the president has authorized -- authorized, no more, i want it in writing. >> no. never saw it, never heard of it. it's the only document of its kind that i've ever seen or heard of. and again, i think this is not the entire story. this is part of a narrative. and how much more there is to it i think remains to be told. megyn: general michael mukasey, thank you very much, sir, always a pleasure to see you. >> good ...

>> it's bizarre. and it doesn't -- it's not the sort of thing that crops up in a vacuum. leon panetta doesn't sit down and just sort of write this off the toch his head because he feels like doing it. megyn: that's it, memo -- it's a memo for the record. >> why do people draft memos for the record? megyn: generally in litigation it's to cover yourself. >> thank you. megyn: well, why would he do it, though? generally you look at this and you think okay, what if the bin laden raid had gone south, could the president really defend himself by saying look at the memo! i called leon panetta and said...

Claiming. >> the spray can is a simple sugar. it's improbable it could have caused a severe violent reaction. megyn: we don't need to rely on the lawyer's conclusion because we are bringing in a special expert witness. dr. marc siegelle. dr. marc, is it possible for a spray can to cause someone to have such an he letter jim reaction that they d such an allergic reaction that they collapse on a magazine rack? >> they can tell whether this was a strangulation. second point is, the cha that mercedes is talking about jenny would cause only a skin rash only if you had severe asthma and you breathed...

>> big difference. megyn: we bumped in with that ad, veterans for a strong america. there's another ad that says president obama saying i gave the order, i did this, i did that. we looked at that speech on the night that bin laden's killed and he also gave credit to the seals. you know, he spoke in the first person some but he also gave credit to the seals. what's so controversial about that? >> what's controversial about it is at a time like that, to put yourself in the middle of it at all is really questionable. and i mean, i simply pointed out that he had, and the controversy it seems to me...

To the president, any additional risks are to be brought back to the president for his consideration. the direction is to go in and get bin laden, and if he is not there, to get out. you say that this memo is very telling. how so? >> in a number of ways. first of all, i never have seen or heard of anything like it. secondly, it doesn't reference what the risk profile was that was presented to the president. all it says is upon the risk profile presented to the president, it doesn't even reference the document or anything precise. it also says that any additional risks must be reported back to ...