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The building was made and they -- this is all part of the rehearsal that special operations forces do. we saw it in the bin laden raid, a model made of the compound, and they tried to assess, using military engineers, whether the building would withstand exactly what happened, which is one of the isis people in the building blowing themselves up, blowing up explosives, and they made a calculation that the building could withstand that, so think about that. what a tidbit. because what it really means is they had some specific understanding of the construction of the building to know what kind o...

You is that we did do a lot in these 20 years in afghanistan, and maybe the best thing we did is on may 1, 2011. we did what we originally came to do which is to take down osama bin laden to protect this country from a terror attack from afghanistan for 20 years and as badly-handled as the biden withdrawal has been this operation was flawless. the cia, the white house and the military community all worked together flawlessly to bring those off. steve: that's right. chris' new book "countdown to bin laden" is available now, and watch his special this sunday at 10 p.m. on the fox news channel yo...

Just saw. do you worry about a terrorist like him being able to now thrive in afghanistan since our troops got out? >> absolutely, absolutely. you know, when you consider the fact that the reason we went in in 9/11 the taliban gave safe harbor to al qaeda. al qaeda has been seriously degraded. as bad as the withdrawal was we did something important on may 1, 2011. we degraded al qaeda. never a terror attack on the homeland. but the group that was in charge on 9/11 is back in charge now. al qaeda is back. isis-k is back. sure, there is a very real clear and present danger. this history thriller...

Subject from afghanistan. they can read those polls, too. but on the other hand, you know, these are legitimate subjects. in the generally talks about the job numbers going down to louisiana today, and the fact that more than 50 of our fellow americans were killed whether down in the gulf coast or in the northeast, and of course you have the texas and the abortion law, supreme court. those are all legitimate subjects. would the white house rather than talking about them than afghanistan absolutely. >> bill: let's talk about your book. the sub text is the 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of...

2011, we took down the mastermind of 9-11, severely degraded al-quaida and we protected the u.s. homeland from an attack like 9-11. there was none for 20 years. now that possibility raises again because of the fact that al-quaida is there under the taliban, isis-k is there under the taliban. for 20 years, we protected the homeland and we brought justice at the end of a rifle held by rob o'neill, a seal to osama bin laden. >> neil: you know, it's weird. when i'm reading this and i got the book -- you got to it me late, but it's okay. it's a great book. i was reading it. this is weird. paying a ...