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After washington, the trip takes him to new york city and then to philadelphia. as you can imagine, security preparations in those cities unprecedented. the operations so vast the secret service is in charge, coordinating dozens of agencies and operation a year in the making. >> likes to see babies and go up to handicapped individuals and we had a good sense of his movements. people get very excited and went to touch and be around the pope but we have to be concerned that we can get out of any environment. >> so it's not just the scope of the preparations that make this visit historic. this is...

Iraq in ramadi. you have 600,000 folks that are predominantly sunni. and now you have this shia force that is coming in certainly backed by the government in iraq. but predominantly the government in iraq is shia. so this is a situation, wolf where there is probably no good folks involved in this fight on the ground. >> and they give this operation a code name. operation whatever it is. but it's something that is very favorable to the shia. but the sunnis are the majority phil mudd hate this. >> talk about winning the battle but losing the war. >> if you're a sunni tribesman and the government...

Separate the girls and the women from the fighters, they were able to tail out all of the fighters. i feel that this is an indication of one very well-trained unit. >> you could say it so well. as you know, the white house has said president obama authorized the operation a with as soon as he and his national security team developed sufficient intelligence and were confident the mission could be carried out successfully. any words to that? >> i think it was unanimous in terms of the national security team with respect to the recommendation on this one. it is an indication that some of our inte...

The familiar live an american world war ii war hero being reunited with the purple heart he earned in the battle of the bulge it turned up in a pawnshop hundreds of miles from home. how does the purple heart end up in a pawnshop that was obviously this piece of history very close to this family. how does that happen? >> purple hearts are pretty commonly bought and sold. the going rate is about $300. in the past few years there has been a one-man operation a veteran uses his own time and money to recover these purple hearts to get them back to family members. this man found the purple heart in ...

>> we could never see the border in the same way as we could before we got these platforms. >> reporter: the trouble is general randolph tex alles is one of the few in government who thinks so and a look at the price tag tells you why. report after report are the homeland security department's inspector general basically calling the entire operation a waste of taxpayer dollars. some tom berry with the center for international policy studies the billions spent securing the border and nothing could be a bigger waste, he says than the $28,000 spend on a predator drone to catch just one illegal im...