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Threat. >> you told me today you've been tracking bin laden for 14 years following every move he has made. how gutsy of a decision was this for the president to send the s.e.a.l.s in and not bomb the target? >> this was a very difficult decision, ed, and a very important one. i've been involved in special operations in counterterrorism for 30 years, for bin laden for 14 years. helicopter operations are inherently risky. if you think back to desert one when president carter sent the helicopters into tehran they had a crash in the desert out there. it scuttled his presidency. mogadishu, 1993, bl...

>> well, it means that it's a chapter that's being closed. our mission never ends, ed. you know, certainly mine. i've made my mission to continue this new arena they're responding to now in terrorist events but, certainly, their emotions are high. >> has new york changed? >> yes. new york has definitely changed. as of last night we have come together. there is a sense of relief, you know, and there's pride. we are very proud of the -- of our commander in chief, president obama. he delivered the promise and we need to get, you know, back our values as a nation. >> and, captain, what did it mean...

>> i think you put it perfectly earlier when you said it was a gutsy call. when we locate ed d zakawri in iraq the call was to drop bombs on that house. opt rateors were 20 minutes away and we weren't willing to wait 20 minutes to take the risk of being able to take him alive. the other problem with bombing a house we haven't discussed is you lose intelligence that way. some type of media is lost and destroyed in that process and you can get future targets and stop future attacks by exploiting that media. >> michael, what about that? we do have his disk. >> absolutely. 40 minutes we were in th...

Come to life? is it like that or are we giving it a false interpretation? >> no, it is like that. i remember when i saw the lion king, i thought one day we have to make the real story with the real characters telling their own story. what you see in this movie, these are the real cats and the story -- >> jeremy irons? >> there is certainly -- there is carly who is the bad lion and he's got four big sons with him, and poor old fang with the broken tooth is all on his own, and he's got to face up to -- >> as they do in reality tv, the bad guys always blame it on the ed d editing. are they going ...

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