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Grueling record breaking 103 miles at a pace of 50 strokes a minute, a 60-hour journey. challenges include muscle fatigue, powerful ocean current, sharks -- without the protection of a shark cage -- and perhaps most dangerous of all, the relentless threat of jellyfish and the excruciating stings. her operations chief explained. >> diana, every hour and a half, every 45 minutes. a quick hydration. these are not long stops. >> reporter: a mission she tried unsuccessfully to accomplish over three decades, making her first attempt at age 28. last september, nyad made it 82 miles, swimming 48 hours...

chairman of the homeland security committee, also with us this morning, cnn national security contributor frances townsend, former bush homeland security adviser. congressman king, give me some more details of this plot as you know this and the man at the center of the plot whom we haven't heard much information about. >> soledad i really can't give you all the details. this is an ongoing operation. it was an unmetallic device, i can tell you it involves a number of countries and that at no time did the bomb ever make it on to the plane but as far as even the country it originated fr...

Bin laden, and how did they get this information? american agents have been poring over those documents that came out of osama bin laden's compound, and in going through some of the documents, they found communication between bin laden and his operations chief in which they talked about possibly proposing a deal to pakistan in which al qaeda would agree not to attack pakistan, and pakistan would agree to sort of look the other way, and allow senior al qaeda leaders to live there in pakistan and base their operations there. >> it is just even interesting that the osama bin laden would consider ...

Either. >> so just to be clear, chris, the u.s. officials believe that this never reached the level of those pakistani government officials, this was just internal conversations that were happening with bin laden, within al qaeda, this potential deal? >> exactly. al qaeda talking amongst themselves. basically osama bin laden communicating with his operations chief about the possibility of going to pakistan and trying to cut some sort of deal whereby al qaeda would be protected, their senior leer would be protected in pakistan, and in return there would be sort of a hands-off policy on pakistan...

malveaux. i want to get you up to speed for friday, may 27th. secretary of state hillary clinton is in pakistan today to smooth things over with the government leaders. they are still angry over the secret u.s. raid that killed bin laden. sources say clinton told the pakistanis that american aid is on the line, unless they do more to rout out terrorists. >> today we discussed in even greater detail cooperation to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda and to drive them from pakistan and the region. we will do our part. and we look to the government of pakistan to take decisive step...