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The decision to kill osama bin laden, rather than taking him alive. 80% believe that killing bin laden rather than capturing him was the right decision. only 11% say it was not. msnbc news pollster peter hart of hart research joins us. great to see you. thank you for coming here in person. these new numbers, 80%, that's about as big a level of support the president could have. >> without a doubt. he made a tough decision and a decision without any sense of how the american public was going to react. every group within the american public from the far right to the far left all say the president...

Obama adviser, was describing how he approached the libya decision. in other words, making sure that owe ba it didn't have the big u.s. stamp on it. getting a world consensus before you went ahead. that helped him get the resolution and indeed expand the resolutionhat the united nations. so that's what that -- >> it is situational. that phrase was applied to the libya situation, but obviously this is completely different. >> this is completely different. look, this is totally different situation. libya was a choice. it was a humanitarian and narrow humanitarian intervention where we had very f...

There were competing voices on that decision. if you look at the decision to intervene in libya, publicly, i mean, almost publicly, bob gates and hillary clinton were on opposite sides of that debate, very strongly pressing different sides of that. that's what it means to be president for, you know, obama, he once said that if a decision gets to his desk, by definition it is a difficult decision because all the easy decisions are made by staff and the interagency process way before it gets to the president's desk. that's what we pay this guy for. >> two weeks ago in your piece for "the new yor...

Declare this is my doctrine for the use of military force and it will apply to all cases. as president, you want to be able to be inconsistent, you want to be able to have different leadership styles and build different coalitions for different kinds of actions. >> isn't it easier to justify i have this policy for bin laden and i went after him and told leon panetta we want to get him, compared to libya, but how do you compare libya and syria? you can say we made a humanitarian decision to save benghazi and he was through the saying i'm going to do this and be brutal and go door to door, he ga...

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