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>> tom, what about the leadership difference between these two administrations? president bush had his basically all -- almost all of his two terms to get this done. president obama made it a top priority. they got it done. it feels like there was a big difference in emphasis. >> i think the big difference is more rhetorical. you're seeing obama i think at his best with that rhetorical coolness. whereas bush with bin laden waivered all over the place. sometimes talking like an old west gunfighter. sometimes like a guy at the bar saying it just don't matter to me much anymore. obama through the...

There's a calmness about this group that reflects the coolness at the center of the administration in kind of president obama's reflective rather detached approach to events. >> tom ricks with foreign policy magazine. thank u very much for joining us tonight, tom. >> you're welcome. >> in tonight's rewrite, what more does president obama have to do to disprove the republican lie that democrats are soft on defense? also, the terror threat. with bin laden gone, how powerful will al qaeda be? [ man ] i've seen beautiful things.

You always see institutional frictions, but i think they got very personal in the bush administration. there's a calmness about this group that reflects the coolness at the center of the administration in kind of president obama's reflective rather detached approach to events. >> tom ricks with foreign policy magazine. thank you very much for joining us tonight, tom. >> you're welcome. >> in tonight's rewrite, what more does president obama have to do to disprove the republican lie that democrats are soft on defense? also, the terror threat. with bin laden gone, how powerful will al qaeda be?

Down comfortably in a walled fortress in a pakistan suburb. but someone -- someone was still thinking about bin laden in a lethal way. >> if we have osama bin laden in our sights, and the pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then i think that we have to act. and we will take them out. we will kill bin laden. we will crush al qaeda. that has to be our biggest national security priority. >> that was candidate obama saying unlike president bush that had announced as you've seen that he was not that concerned about osama bin laden, president obama would make his biggest na...

yes. >> today, at my direction, the small team of americans carried out the operation -- >> when that helicopter was seen to be unable to move, all of a sudden you had to go into plan b. and they did it flawlessly. >> this purportedly the bloody scene. >> i'm fascinated by the fact that there was a neighbor next to this compound tweeting -- live tweeting during the raid. go away, helicopter before i take out my giant swatter. >> d.n.a. analysis confirms with 100% certainty that in fact it was osama bin laden killed. >> by how did osama bin laden hide in plain sight for so long? >> th...