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Roger, what can you tell me about this plot, and how serious was it? and what does it -- what does its failure mean to the anti-terrorism efforts? >> it's another good news story because it means that the united states working with international partners, and what that probably means is intelligence services in the region were able to identify this plot well in advance of execution and get control of this device before it ever became a threat to an airplane. the administration is pretty clear, though, that this plot was not tied to the anniversary of bin laden's death, though they have said th...

Would have current information, but this kind of thing, it sounds interesting, looks like a headline, a big story, but it really behind the scenes, one individual, two individuals, technical information, combined with things like satellite imagery, photographs from space, slowly but surely in contrast to the kind of headlines you see in the "the washington post" and "new york times," it's bits and pieces from different individuals, maybe from satellite photographs that show a security footprint on the ground. bits and piece that is slowly lead you to say maybe what one individual said eight mo...

Levels in the security service or in the military. on the one hand to criticize pakistan for leaking, it's been happening since day one, we ought to accept it. on the other hand, they've been a good partner, they've lost a lot 6 good people, so it's not surprising to me that we didn't tell them because we were afraid of a leak. at the same time we ought not to be sitting here saying we have a terrible pattern. this is a sovereign country, a country we're going to need to chase ayman al zawahiri and others, so let's relax and keep going. >> roger, the decision to go in with a small force, was t...

Decade where an official comes it and says, we have reports not confirmed that something terrible might happen but go about your lives. how concerned should new yorkers and people in washington be this morning? >> i tend to go to the district over the weekend. i'm going to do like mayor bloomberg said. continue to live my life. the department of homeland security has the motto, if you see something, say something? that's what we're doing to do. beyond that, we continue to do what we always do. we're in a heightened state of alert most of the time and we shouldn't treat this any differently. >>...

Mean it was not really a capture operation, that it was an operation to kill someone, do you say if you've got him, kill him anyway? >> cenk s. i think some of the reporting has been off. john brennan said today pretty explicitly there was a capture option here. the force that went in did have pretty explicit instructions, capture if possible. if that was not on the table, to neutralize the subject. you're trusting them to make a decision in the hostile environment. they performed brilliantly. >> roger, let me ask you about this special force that came in from jsoc. we're going to talk about i...