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>> 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. >> 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? >> this was not a cave. >> no. >> the united sta...

>> 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? >> this wa...

>> well, i think it did and it didn't. meaning i think in all these ways it clearly shifted the focus of his presidency to issues that he was not, you know, coming into the white house thinking it would consume his time. he was interested in education reform and immigration, very interested in immigration reform and really liberalizing immigration policy and all that, you know, takes a second place when 9/11 happens. and the book does wrestle with this, you know, iraq doesn't clearly fit into the post-9/11 strategy. and there's going to be an ongoing debate. there was while he was pr...

>> guest: i'd add that, you know, historians 50 years from now will be biased about this period in different ways. obviously, if anyone writes about vietnam today, even someone not living through that event, they have opinions that reflect their politics today oh how they view iraq and afghanistan. it's impossible to escape that. there's differences. some are quite comfortable, otherrings are not. i think it's healthy to have historians put these things into context and capture and put the narrative together early on while it's still kind of fresh in our head. >> guest: yeah, i agree...

had more, "decision points." w. bush. let's start with just a general at the end of m4 as toys that come>> and i think on things that is i see is even if he doesn't want to play politics, he's also missing the political game that's being played around him. and that was one of the things that did come through in the book as i was reading it. >> and lara brown is the author of jockeying for the american presidency, the political opportunism of aspirants. dr. brown if you wrote president bush of his book what would be your study. >> i talk about his election campaign in 2000. an...