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Chuck, the situation was being monitored in the situation room by the president. was pinetta in a separate location at cia headquarters? was he at the same time participating and directing it from cia headquarters? >> reporter: the person directing the operation is the person that is running -- that runs that special forces -- the special forces operation. i want to back up to march 29th. you've given a great time line. i'll be honest, lawrence, we've gotten a couple other briefings even in the last few hours. essentially they're doing debriefings of the men who participated in this capture an...

Location at cia headquarters? was he at the same time participating and directing it from cia headquarters? >> reporter: the person directing the operation is the person that is running -- that runs that special forces -- the special forces operation. i want to back up to march 29th. you've given a great time line. i'll be honest, lawrence, we've gotten a couple other briefings even in the last few hours. essentially they're doing debriefings of the men who participated in this capture and kill of bin laden. so the story continues town fold. march 29th, the president is offered an array of pla...

Coming or there until they were already on the job and on the operation. obviously a 40-minute fire fight and operation did cause a pakistani response and that's obviously why the americans left the country very quickly and did not inform the pakistani government what they had done until they were out of pakistan. trust is absolutely the key issue. it would have been an enormous surprise if the americans decided that they could trust the pakistanis with an information as vital for the most wanted individual bin laden. the last few months seeing deterioration in pakistani-u.s. relations. the dr...

But the skies over pakistan at any given moment are just have predator drones as thick as flies. and date baggiing back to the o attacks on afghanistan in 2001, those feeds have been available not only to the white house, but here to the pentagon and certainly the cia. so i suspect that's what the president and his entire staff were watching last night. >> well, an incredible moment inside of the situation room, and jim, at the moment they received word at the ground 3:55 eastern that osama bin laden was dead and applause broke out in the situation room. mick, thank you. well, the death of o...

Those reports, however, are difficult to confirm. they may be the rebels' wishful thinking. they are making some gains militarily and there was just a press conference a short while ago and a spokesperson for the rebel movement here said that the introduction of american predator drones has helped significantly and made the -- made their advances -- given them a marked improvement was the word he used. there is a sense of momentum and progress. also, we have started to see tv we heard this from two sources that british military advisers are here on the grnd, in benghazi, and are in a control r...