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All acknowledge, no one really thinks that a speech is a magical decree, that the speech means that all of a sudden magic is going to strike washington and everything he asked for is going to happen. >> do people remember these speeches other than the length of one? >> yes, they certainly remember the image, how the president looked. he looked confident and optimistic. but he set himself up to deliver without congress. this president, who has used fewer executive orders than reagan or clinton or bush has set himself up for powerful executive action. >> coming out as we were just discussing the...

Is going to strike washington and everything he asked for is going to happen. >> do people remember these speeches other than the length of one? >> yes, they certainly remember the image, how the president looked. he looked confident and optimistic. but he set himself up to deliver without congress. this president, who has used fewer executive orders than reagan or clinton or bush has set himself up for powerful executive action. >> coming out as we were just discussing the most emotional moment of the president's speech came, and if you missed it, it's extraordinary. he introduced an american...

Details of a possible attack on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 as well as plans to strike washington, new york, chicago, and los angeles. >> i think this is as significant as the death of bin laden, what's found with him. it's a treasure trove and the fact that the president made the decision not to go in and bomb the place means we have this rich amount of data coming out of there which will make people safer and give us a better sense of what was happening internally within al qaeda. >> reporter: released already -- this video. >> one of him watching tv looking like this old guy monitoring hi...

Gunships which can put a bullet on every inch of a football field. >> the amount of ordinance dropped over a period of two weeks almost defies belief. the mountains were rearranged. >> reporter: from a radio, word of a dead al qaeda fighter. the americans hear bin laden try to rally the men. >> we hear him apologize to them for having led them to an area where they are having air strikes on them relentlessly. >> reporter: with bin laden in the crosshairs, berntsen wants u.s. forces sent in to finish the job. >> in the first two or three days of december i would write a message back to washingt...

Days of december i would write a message back to washington recommending the insertion of u.s. forces on the ground. i was looking for 600 to 800 rangers, roughly a battalion. they never came. >> reporter: instead, the u.s. relies on its hired guns. >> yeah. it was not a professional military force by any stretch of the imagination. some of them took bribes from members of al qaeda to look the other way. >> reporter: outsourcing fails. bin laden vanishes into the mountains. >> he was there. we were listening to him on the radio. bin laden and roughly 180 would escape. >> the moral of the story...