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About the risk the president was willing to take. "the new york times" is reporting that president obama insisted the assault team that stormed the terrorist compound had to be large enough to fight its way out of pakistan. that means the president was willing to use force against an important ally to rid the world of bin laden. >> we're also learning that the evidence seized from the al qaeda chief's compound so far is mostly wishful thinking, they call it aspirational rather than actual planning and execution. officials say there is more data to decipher. new developments on the u.s. effor...

Terrorist compound. jenna: we've heard it's not just him. let's say for example he's not drinking the coke or the pepsi, we've heard from the department of defense spokesman that said even in gitmo some of the interrogators used mcdonald's hamburgers and subway sandwiches and dvds of the deadliest catch and harry potter as items to get these guys talk, these are the items the jihadists like. so how do you explain the contradiction of hating america so much but liking the products? >> it's such a paradox. the fact is they live in the same world, they're humans, and this is something that al-qae...

>> well, probably. we may have had more intelligence, and obviously this would be very, very highly classified, so it may have been useful simply to continue to give that impression. >> so they may have been letting -- not letting those looking for know that he might be some place other than the mountains. >> precisely. there would be no reason in the fullness of a statement to give out more than useful. >> you're not suggesting that the government would lie to us? >> no, but it would be very careful in terms of this collection of intelligence over the course of several years. >> and let me as...

Afghanistan and pakistan. that is the central front in the war against al-qaeda, that's where we need to put our resources, and that's what we need to focus on. killing bin laden is a crucial step in that. and i think going forward, the president's plan to build up the afghan government, build up their security forces and their governing capacity so they can stand without us and begin to draw down is the right plan. killing bin laden helps to move that plan forward, helps speed up, i think, the process by which we can begin to draw down in afghanistan, show that we have succeeded in that regio...