to the american people and the world, the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin ladener thought i would hear a joyous crowd yelling cia. cia. it was as a moment i'll never forget. chris: what to do with bin laden's body? therefore a plan. >> we didn't want to bury his body some place ashore. then it would make him a martyr. >> flown to uss carl vincent. wrapped in white cloth, lowered into sea. >> following right protocols, we treated him better than i think we would have treated us. chris: what did it say about this country capabilities and resolve? >> i think it sent a message to the world that will first and foremost. the united states delivered justice to those who died on 9/11 and to their families. >> no matter how long it takes, if you do harm to american citizens we're going to track you down, find and you bring you to justice. ♪ ♪ chris: after the missioned, cia learned that bin laden was hiding in the abbottabad compound for 5 years, he spent much of that time blotting future terror attacks against the u.s. it is worth remembering now in wake of or chaotic wi

additional 30,000 troops to afghanistan. >> out of the horror of 9/11 in a hunt for its mastermind osama bin laden the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. leader of al qaeda. >> four taliban senior leaders once detained at guantanamo bay released by the obama administration in 2014 in a prisoner swap for sergeant beau bergdahl, kidnapped in afghanistan after deserting his army post. >> whatever those circumstances turn out to be. we still get an american soldier back who was held in activity. >> the concrete is built to withstand pressure up to 13,000 pound per square inch. >> i share the american people's frustration over a foreign policy that has spent too much money and american lives to rebuild a country in our own image. >> the taliban overrunning everything and controlling the whole country is highly unlikely. >> i learned there was never a good time to withdraw u.s. forces. the truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we anticipated. >> our president and our government has abandoned american citizens behind enemy lines. >> you have a failure. he did it f

they sheltered osama bin laden. but they weren't the same thing as al-qaeda. that there was no relevant distinction between al-qaeda, between the taliban and between what it called "terrorist groups of global reach," which ultimately washes out to saying that while the spectable version of the bush administration's policies were already an extremely expansive conception of who could be targeted, moving from terror groups like al-qaeda to, ultimately, entire regimes, the deputy defense secretary, paul wolfowitz, spoke in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 about "ending states" but in the broader political, journalistic and then popular conception, the enemy could be all of islam, or it could be something just short of all of islam. and from there, it was an extremely short, rather immediate, transition to fearing american muslims, fearing your neighbors, thinking your neighbors posed a threat to you -- not that this apparatus of war and repression posed a threat to you. amy: you know, spencer, one of the things that hasn't gotten reported very much is that as the

bin laden, desde afganistÁn, le ordenÓ a al qaeda perpetuar un ataque en suelo estadounidense. el expresidente bush dio la orden de atacar. >> el talibÁn de daba amparo a osamas, cae kabul y los talibanes huyen de la ciudad. el rÉgimen del talibÁn terminÓ, anunciÓ bush. una nueva constituciÓn, elecciones presidenciales y un nuevo presidente en ese paÍs. tras siete aÑos de guerra, obama mand ——mandÓ mÁs refuerzos, 17.000 estadounidenses que se unen a los que estaban en ese paÍs. el terrorista mÁs buscado fue asesinado en pakistÁn, despuÉs de un tiroteo, mataron a osama bin laden. tras la muerte de ben laden, obama anunciÓ el retiro de las tropas, pero los talibanes siguieron dando pelea. en 2016, trump ordenÓ lanzar la madre de todas las bombas en afganistÁn. hemos tenido negociaciones exitosas, sostuvo. dÍas antes de dejar la presidencia, trump ordenÓ la salida de las tropas para mayo, pero el presidente biden lo extendiÓ hasta fines de agosto, los talibanes tomaron en 10 dÍas control de su paÍs. se estima que alrededor de 50.000 civiles afganos perdieron la vida, del lado estadounidense, mÁs de 2300 miembros de las fuerzas armadas. ilia: cambiamos de tema.

>> obama's legacy, first and foremost, is that he did kill osama bin laden. id something that george w. bush didn't do. >> obama! obama! we (bleep) killed osama! obama! obama! >> it meant a lot to america, like saddam's statue coming down. >> ♪ oh, say, does that star- spangled... ♪ >> the killing of osama bin laden gave americans a sense of closure. but it really didn't close anything. it didn't resolve iraq or afghanistan. >> (chanting): u.s.a.! u.s.a.! >> we wanted to believe that once bin laden was eliminated, that the threat was over, that we had achieved what we had set out to do a decade before, that now the architect of the 9/11 attacks, the founder and leader of al-qaeda, was gone, the threat would end. >> (cheering) >> nothing, unfortunately, could have been further from the truth-- the problem is that the movement had become larger than one man. >> al-qaeda is expanding operations across the middle east. >> narrator: thousands of fighters... >> each of those dots... >> narrator: ...all over the middle east and northern africa. al-qaeda cells strikin

the same man who wanted to wait to kill osama bin laden get out of a country that aided and abetted osama laden. joe biden told you that america is back. it doesn't see that way does it, it looks like america is gone. in the taliban is back joining me now is someone who knows the killing of osama bin laden he's the host of "fox news sunday" and the best-selling author whose new book countdown bin laden the untold story of the 247 day hunt to bring a mastermind of 9/11 to justice on tuesday. chris wallace. >> thank you so much for having me. >> is there a meaningful distinction, you're an expert on these matters but for us normal viewers between the taliban, al-qaeda and isis. >> there is definitely a distinction that the al-qaeda obviously was the group of the islamic jihadists that perpetrated 9/11. isis is a rival group in the taliban is a rival group allied with al-qaeda but at odds with isis. i've got to tell you something that is in my new book and told for the first time goes directly to your point about joe biden. you know how i fear for bob gates the defense secretary wrote in his

had we put a lot of ground troops in there, we probably would have gotten osama bin laden. int was when we finally did kill osama bin laden, that would have been president obama's point to quickly try to draw down the military mission. there really was no clear political enstd state that lead to deep questions, was it worth it? what was it all about? >> what do you say to gold star parents or veterans who wonder if it was worth it? >> i would say to the families for what i have failed to do, i am so rrry. i did the best i could. >> why do you blame yourself? >> if this is as failure, i carry my share of it. >> what's your message to the u.s. veterans sitting at home watching these events and really having a tough time with it. what do you say to them? >> i would say you and your comrade, you helped us walk. so many people start to thinking differently, doing things differently. expanding their world view and treating their women better. it's not reversible. that progress would stay forever. and your sacrifices made that happen. >> for years now i have worn this bracelet on w

the title was i met osama bin laden three times. i'm sorry to say his story isn't over. n laden for the first time in the tora bora mountains in 1997, he predicted the united states would soon cease to be a super power and surprised me by suggesting an alliance of afghanistan, pakistan, iran and china against the united states and india. what do you think about that, general? >> well, there's a lot of conventional group think about what happened with bin laden and what his thoughts were, et cetera. i disagree with some of the basic premises. certainly the united states remains a super power. when you -- are we challenged as a result of the debacle going forward? indisputable we are. when you look around the world, nato and the countries in europe depend on the united states to stand up against russian aggression. the middle east, our allies in the middle east, israel and our arab states very much the same. stand up against the aggression of iran. the same thing in the western pacific, the south china sea with our allies out there. those allies depend on the united states.

more approachable and to begin with i am the number two man who was looking over the shoulder of osama bin laden. he is the real brainchild. it is actually his organization and it's largely an egyptian organization. and of course it was osama bin laden himself. i have the opportunity to me with them who is the head of saudi arabian intelligence and he is now the ambassador to the united states. he was the head of the counterterrorist organization and then john o'neill as well who was actually the first person that i wrote about in this effort. he had been the head of the counterterrorism division in new york city and he was pushed out of his own organization, they were angry at him and leaked information and he resigned and became the head of security at the world trade center. and he died on that day as well. see mackie has kind of become a folk hero. and he had a made for television movie? just. >> one of the things that you talked about, he chose to put three pictures of him, all of these different women discussing his personality and his relationship with women. one is that i'm thing that he

el objetivo en aquel tiempo era dar con osama bin laden la cabeza de los atentados. >>> osama bin ladenespuÉs del 11 de septiembre cuando los estados unidos lo identificaron pidieron a los talibanes entregarlos a los estados unidos, ellos lo cobijaron. >>> 20 aÑos despuÉs ese grupo vuelve a tomar el control del gobierno. el presidente joe biden se prepara para una agenda apretada este sÁbado donde asistirÁ a eventos en virginia y nueva york. >>> esta maÑana vÍctimas en la ciudad de oakland honraron a las vÍctimas del 11 de septiembre. el tributo se enfocÓ en agradecer a los socorristas que velan por esa (inaudible). >>> el servicio secreto tiene como tarea proteger al presidente en la casa blanca. uno de los agentes de proteger esa casa blanca en ese trÁgico dÍa, fue el sargento salvador santoyo. conversamos con Él. >>> para el sargento tÉcnico salvador santoyo ese 11 de septiembre iniciÓ como un dÍa normal. >>> ese dÍa todo normal. >>> pero despuÉs de las 11, 58 cuando el primer aviÓn impactÓ en las torres, el ruido se hizo constante. >>> el segundo aviÓn pegÓ. y ese dÍa pensÉ que es e

but osama bin laden never forgot. afghanistan as a guest of religious extremists called the taliban, who took over after the soviet withdrawal. and, in his mountainous safe haven, bin laden was embolden. if a cowboy from texas and the cia could arm a bunch of islamists with guided missiles and defeat the soviet union, perhaps he could bring down the united states. with guide aircraft. for most americans, 9/11 seemed to come out of nowhere. a sucker punch, master minded by a man they'd never heard of. blow fwrak a covert war most americans never knew happened. but 9/11 woke a slumbering giant. >> usa! usa! >> i can hear you, the rest of the world hears you. and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. >> 9/11 was less a failure of intelligence and more a failure of imagination. >> admiral james debridis fought in haiti and iraq and became nato's supreme allied commander. >> we couldn't imagine that a primitive foe, operating from an ungoverned space in afghanistan could have the sophisticat

, practiced and rehearsed and went on a mission and one of them, the man, in fact, who killed osama bin ladeno'neil, he said one way ticket. suicide mission, if bin laden was in the compound they didn't think they would be coming home. they thought it was booby trapped or al-qaeda guards but as he said and as residents today, he said i was doing this for the woman who went to work on 9/11 in the world trade center and at one moment sitting there and there's inferno inside because the plane hit 2500 degrees fahrenheit and she looked out the window and decides the better choice is to jump 90 floors to her death and we avenge that as sad as this day is from 20 years ago, that was a day when we took the battlefield which was in ground zero in shanksville, the pentagon and we brought it back to that part of the world. eric: that's amazing. in your book you go behind the scenes into the offices when penneta was told that they had the clues and especially with the courier, they were able to figure out who the courier was and that led them to the house. chris: it's so interesting because what happene

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now, here in pakistan, we've been trying to get to the region where navy seals killed osama bin laden2011. the entire compound has been leveled. we're being told, the media has been told, it's strictly forbidden from entering that region they say over 9/11 because it's simply too sensitive. errol. >> barnett: charlie d'agata, thank you. this week, the case against the five men accused of aiding the 9/11 hijackers inched forward with pretrial hearings. this happened at a military court in guantanamo bay, cuba. senior investigative correspondent catherine herridge is there. >> reporter: errol, military prosecutors say they are committed to a fair and just outcome, but after more than a decade of legal arguments over evidence and allegations the defendants were tortured in c.i.a. custody, there is still no trial date. ♪ ♪ ♪ to mark the 20th anniversary, a special presentation of the colors at guantanamo bay, where the defendants are held in a military prison not far from the courthouse custom built for their tral. nearly ability00 prisoners have passed through the detention camps. 39 rem

they went after al qaeda, killed osama bin laden and prevented terrorists from using it as a base forattacking our homeland. they did their duty but now it's clear presidentne biden hasn't done his. he turned in orderly evacuation into a disaster. first he pulled our troops out and send thousands back in and failed to protect americans still in the country and account for lethal american military equipment. he failed to anticipate worsening conditions on the ground and his judgment that the afghan security forces would hold their own when our own intelligence estimates said they wouldn't. he failed to anticipate a new offensive by the taliban and again and again and again until american blood at the airport paid the price for the failure and then he celebrated it as an extraordinary success. the team is responsible, tomac. men like secretary austin, blinking, jake sullivan overestimated the security forces willingness to hold the line and instead of planning for the worst they planned for the best. because of them we have americans stranded behind enemy lines and over 100,000 refugees

and now osama bin laden's successor has reappeared. this morning, the man who took over for osama bin laden, resurfacing after rumors of his death. al qaeda leader, ayman al zawahiri appearing on a video released on the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. zawahiri, who had not been heard from in years, discussed the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan but did not discuss the taliban return to power, suggesting the tape was recorded earlier this year. over the weekend, the taliban raising their flag over the presidential palace in kabul. and announcing new rules for women, who are banned from schools in the '90s. now, the taliban says female students will o study. but classrooms will be segregated by gender. this coming as the fbi declassifies a report, detailing contacts between saudi officials and some of the 9/11 hijackers. >> the report identifies five saudi officials, who were for three years, worked -- prepared for the al qaeda terrorists to arrive in the united states, worked with al qaeda terrorists, gave them everything

theyou went after al qaeda, killed osama bin laden and prevented terrorists from using afghanistan asfor attacking our homeland. they did their duty. now it is abundantly clear presidentn biden has not done his. president biden turned in orderly evacuation into a disaster. not much is painfully clear. first, joe biden pulled her troops out and then he that sent thousands back in pretty failed to protect american still in the country. he failed to account for lethal military equipment he left behind, he failed to anticipate worsening conditions on the ground, he failed with judgment that the afghan security forces would hold their own, on her own intelligence estimate said they would not. he failed to anticipate a new offensive again, and again, and again until american blood at the kabul airport played the price for that failurera they celebrated as an extraordinary success. joe biden's team is responsible too. secretaryet austin, secretary blinken, jake sullivan, national security advisor overestimated the afghan security forces to hold the line instead of planning for the worse they

after all, the purpose of it was to combat the effects of what osama bin laden did in launching the 9tacks of america. and those attacks were intended to prove to the world that america was vulnerable and that it was not as strong as everybody had assumed. that is in fact what happened. the way in which the first response of president george w. bush -- he did not invade afghanistan like many people in the world seem to think. what he did was to assist with airpower the afghan northern alliance troops to come in and capture kabul from the taliban and drive them out. that was welcome to write around the world. then his officials decided, as we know, that they had to demonstrate that america was just as strong as ever. they picked on saddam hussein of iraq. iraq w invaded in 2003. that was deeply unpopular worldwide. and soon, it became clear that the american forces were not really as strong or as effective as everybody had thought. now, of course, the withdrawal from afghanistan has really driven all of those points home. laura: you were actually in afghanistan 20 years ago. what are y

this call was conducted from a phone that belonged to osama bin laden himself, he then lived in sudanwas a friend of osama bin laden. and — so my — i have to mention that the united states found out that my cousin was not involved in the 9/11 attack. i'm not here to interrogate you, god forbid, you've had plenty of that in your life, but i just want our audience to be clear that there were some, let's be honest, some pretty extraordinary connections between you and men that you know became active terrorists in al-qaeda. just to name one, ramzi bin al—shibh, you had connections, direct connections, to him in germany. these connections are real. how do you explain them? as to ramzi al—shibh, i don't know him. i saw him once, he came once to my house to visit a friend. those are all the connections. there is no connections whatsoever with any type of organised crimes because i don't want to use terrorism because i don't believe in these word because it's used to oppress politically descend in my part of the world, and it's abuse to collectively punish innocent people. if you say a murder

he was the arms procurement chief or osama bin laden. afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, along with many of the other meers of al qaeda across the border into pakistan. he was arrested there. he snt some years in prison and was released. the fact he has returned, if it is confirmed it is him, is worrying for the region in the world. it would show that al qaeda now feel safe enough to return to the former stronghold it lived in before close to the tora bora mountains. second is the fact he seems to be getting a strong local welcome, which will make it that much harder to root out al qaeda from the local population. this is going to be a real problem, a real challenge for counterterrorism for all countries going ahead. russ: thanks to frank for that. we have talked about those who left afghanistan. the vast majority of afghans have not. life very much goes on for millions of people. lyse doucet has been on the streets of kabul. lyse: this is one of the main centers in the streets. the first day for afghanistan with no foreign troops in th

also, terrorist training camps of osama bin laden and his al qaeda terrorist network. >> so to bringnow coming up on 1:00 eastern time in afghanistan because of the time differences. it is 9:30 there, and a major attack is under way by u.s. military forces. we're about to get the details on all of that from the president of the united states who returned from camp david earlier. he'll be addressing the nation from the oval office in his capacity as the chief executive of this country, but also as the commander in chief of all u.s. armed forces. and as we have been saying, he is also expected to talk -- >> good afternoon. on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against the al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. these carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations and to attack the military capability of the taliban regime. the battle is now joined on many fronts. we will not waiver. we will not tire. we will not falter, and we will not fail. peace

president biden decided that our mission there was complete the original mission was about osama bin laden and al qaeda. he decided the american people were not prepared to commit to a war that essentially had no end. that is point number one. point number two, no question that the leaving was chaotic and difficult and dangerous. but it's important to understand some of those surrounding circumstances. for example i stood on this floor in june and berated the administration for not moving aggressively enough to at the special immigrant visa i'm sorry, those who helped the troops out many that position and then the president met with president connie on june 2h in person and said please don't start the evacuation in a major way because that in itself a lead to the collapse of our government a loss of confidence. so then the question became so if we withdrew troops with the afghan government failed? and we will be having hearings here this week or next week or the week after to discuss that very question what was the intelligence? i'm a member of the select committee on intelligence and i ca

and in 2011 in the spring of 2011, when it culminates, promised land and with osama bin laden's compound grade and it's a compound hit on osama bin laden and donald trump which he wraps up in the ending. now, in doing the research for this book, i decided as we have seen online and copies of birth certificates floating around that may or may not be right, they may be forgeries, the evidence is not convincing to me and most people. what i wanted to find out is why the resistance. there was resistance. in a sense in my book there were two threads. one is a story of unraveling the true history of barack obama and the other is a story of telling the story of the unraveling of the obama presidency. now, as i got into the research on the birth certificate and who is on it, i learned right away the initial birth or was barack obama. many of you know this when he was probably 23 or 24 he was trying to put together a book deal after he got out of harvard and the publishers guide. even though he is accused of that, he did not. what happens next is no one pays any attention to that but in 2008, a g

the number one suspect, osama bin laden. lways had a contingency plan for attacks against a variety of bin laden targets. behind me in what's left of this building here tonight, the military is literally dusting off those plans. tom? >> nbc's reporter. jim, around the world, they are still on the high state of alert? >> the high state of alert. delta, a short term after military commanders all over the world took the responsibility, went to delta which puts those forces on a virtual war footing prepared for anything. >> all right thank you very much. as new york was a target and thrown into chaos, in los angeles, it was a city stunned by the attacks and three of the four hijacked airliners were bound for los angeles. the other first for san franciscan, california. george lewis is in los angeles airport tonight. some of the grieving families and the latest on some of the crash victims that we know about. george? >> yes, tom, a lot of grieving going on here in the west coast because all of the people who were lost on those plan

a couple questions, one, do you feel that what osama bin laden was killed -- when osama bin laden was killed we should have left and that would have been it? another question, i almost feel that what the united states is was we emphasized we were going to build up the afghans. so that they can defend themselves. i haven't been there 20 years -- having been there 20 years, i believe what the united states did not expect was the afghans would literally be taking over within the week. i believe that that is the reason why this whole debacle occurred. this is another -- and my only other important question, what does united states feel? what do you feel that winning, what do you mean by we won the war? thank you. guest: those are several really good questions. certainly those are ones president biden has announced -- expressed publicly. he said we should have left after bin laden was killed in pakistan in 2011. again, ironically, president obama tried to end the war after that. his strategy called for withdraw of u.s. troops -- called for a drawdown of u.s. troops and his land was eventua

the original mission, of course, was about osama bin laden and al qaeda, and he decided that the american people were not prepared to commit to a war that essentially had no end. so that's point one. point two, there's no question that the leaving was chaotic and difficult and dangerous, but i think it's important to understand some of the surrounding circumstances. for example, i was one who stood on this floor in june and berated the administration for not moving aggressively enough to get the special immigrant visa troops -- i'm sorry, those who helped our troops out. the presiding officer, i think, took that position, many of us took that position. we were hammering the administration. but then the president met with president ghani on june 25 in person, and ghani specifically said please don't start that evacuation in a major way because that in itself will lead to the collapse of our government. it will lead to a loss of confidence. so please don't do that. so the question became when if we withdrew our troops would the afghan government fail? and we will be having hearings here thi

they are not the same organization that was in power in this country in the 1990s, that hosted osama bin laden, was very, very repressive toward women. just today the taliban said that women and girls can go to school that was not allowed in the 1990s. but they said that the classrooms will be segregated, that if they're in the same room there will be a center divider down the middle of the room, and that islamic dress is required but there was no mention of the burqa, which was imposed many years ago and is still worn in many rural parts of this country and in some parts of kabul and frankly never went away in some rural parts of afghanistan. so they're on this campaign to say that they have changed it's unclear if it's true. it's unclear if people are going to believe it. many people are still trying to get out of this country. there is a fear of a refugee crisis because there's increasing humanitarian problems, food problems, and it could be that the taliban are pouring on the charm because they need international aid. for whatever reason, they are carrying this message, and you do see the

i mean he is a mass murderer, osama bin laden.y the time we really organized ourselves to do, that in october or november, he had pretty much skedaddled. he was gone. he was out of the country. and we didn't have to stay. he left. and we stayed for 20 years. >> yes, we famously had a shot. we came close. now at least he is where he needs to be, and humanity is better off for. it's michael, i'm going to take a pause. michael moore has agreed to stay with us. we will resume our conversation after this break. coming up, we will talk to him about what's at stake for the president, as mr. biden tries to advance this three and a half trillion dollar plan, to expands a queen thing we used to call, the social safety net in this country. social safety net in this country. hey, i just got a text from my sister. you remember rick, her neighbor? sure, he's the 76-year-old guy who still runs marathons, right? sadly, not anymore. wow. so sudden. um, we're not about to have the "we need life insurance" conversation again, are we? no, we're havin

american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin ladenfficult the u.s. navy seal mission really was. >> the seal teams that went into this, they didn't think they would make it back? >> that was a surprise to me. and i will tell you that one of the top c.i.a. operatives sat watching the drone view back at langley, at c.i.a. headquarters, fully expected he was going to see the compound just explode like a jerry bruckheimer action movie, that the whole place was just going to blow upment. >> repoup.>> reporter: the seals didn't know if bin laden was even be there, and if he was, he would be wired with trip wires and pakistani groups. >> o'neill called his particular team of the seals the martyrs brigade. he thought, we're going to avenge 9/11, we're going to bring bin laden to justice, but there is no way we're getting out. >> reporter: ben o'neill is just one of the characters in chris wallace's new book, "countdown bin laden." >> the president is making a decision about a raid that is going to endanger the lives of the couple of dozen sea

america smashed the taliban and set al qaeda running for their caves in a pakistan pair we killed osama bin laden, crushed terrorism networks around the world. over the past 20 years the death of soul from terrace the united states was 107 because of our brave military that took the fight to the enemy overseas. 107 souls is still far too many in this country. but the nation has been spared another catastrophic attack while our all volunteers to the watch in afghanistan. but here onsh the 20th anniversary of 911, what should be a resounding victory and success of american values and resolve is instead a defeat. and it is an especially bitter defeat to americans all across the country. it is bitter because americans surrendered 20 years of blood, sweat and tears to the enemy. the taliban now control more of afghanistan than they did in 2001. and they are better armed with american guns, vehicles and aircraft. it is bitter because it was entirely preventable. it was a bitter because those who work in national security no in their hearts the president is wrong when he says the war is over. mr. presid

here and now this september 11th was celebrated in kabul by the taliban, the people who gave osama bin laden sanctuary in afghanistan and allowed him to launch his attacks on our country. the new prime minister of afghanistan was the foreign minister in 2001. and when we said to him, surrender osama bin laden or suffer the consequences, he told us to pound sand. the interior minister has a $10 million bounty by the united states on his head for having participated in the 2006 attack in kabul that killed six americans. his uncle, another member of the network, is the refugee minister which you allows him to provide cover for foreign terrorists to come into afghanistan and receive documents and he has $5 million bounty on his head so we took afghanistan which was, you know, which was trying to be a modern nation, respected human rights, allowed women to be educated and worked and we surrendered it and general milley was accurate when he said within 24 months, 36 months, afghanistan will be -- there will be, quote, a resurgence of terrorism because of what has happened in afghanistan. chris: i

is dead. >> they captured and killed osama bin laden, and i remember the day that it hand. en killed because we knew that's not why we were there anymore. it's kind of when i started to really fall out of love with obama. >> the death of bin laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al qaeda. >> i see him delivering a speech as if he's accomplished some great feat, and perhaps in a propagandaic sense, he had. but all i saw was a lot of money being poured into a country that did not want us there. there are literally schools in brooklyn that don't have books in the library. there are bread lines in this country right now. there are people who are facing eviction. what could that money have done for the people who actually call this place home? >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. >> in january 2009, america inaugurated a new commander in chief. >> hi. >> whose top foreign policy agenda item was the 7-year-old war in afghanistan. to finish it and get out. >> i want the american people to understand that we have a cle

we killed osama bin laden and crushed terrorism networks around the world. over the past 20 years the death toll from terrorists inside the united states was 107 because of our brave military that took the fight to the enemy overseas. 107 souls is still far too many in this country. but the nation has been spared another catastrophic attack while our all-volunteer force stood the watch in afghanistan. but here on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, what should be a resounding victory and success of american values and resolve is instead a defeat defeat, and it is an especially bitter defeat to americans all across this country. it's bitter because americans surrendered 20 years of blood, sweat, and tears to the enemy. the taliban now control more of afghanistan than they did in 2001, and they are better armed with american guns, vehicles, and aircraft. it's bitter because it was entirely preventable. it's bitter because those who work in national security know in their hearts that the president is wrong when he says the war is over. mr. president, the war is not o

and osama bin laden was in the radar since 1995. inton had nine times to kill osama bin laden and yet he didn't. bush let him get away. and i don't think we've learned any lessons. and as callers from, you know, previous callers have said, some people will say we haven't gotten attacked in 20 years. we've got attacked. the capital one, an internal attack from extremists. and i think bush now can come to terms with that and say yes, we have national and internal terrorists and we have a nation that's divided. and yet that is not what i know. my new york city and everybody that's listening into this that knows new york city knows that we have a robust culture from all parts of the world and we live in unity. i went out friday night. they asked me for my vaccine, in a bar that i went to. there's no questions. gave them my vax i.d., people were really. went out, nobody was wearing masks. we don't politicize and we all live, you know -- i understand it i'm not saying it's perfect, but we have muslims and we have jewish, the jewish communi

you heard in the speech last night, he said of osama bin laden and al qaeda were not in afghanistan, would we have ever gone in there and would we have erred in that fight? he made it clear that the mission was to get osama bin laden and debilitate al qaeda. he believed that success was important but it is not anymore and hasn't been for quite some time. i heard this from quite a few veterans, too. there is a lot of america has rediscovered afghanistan the last couple weeks. the veteran community and military community, this something that has weight on them for a while. her a lot of veteran saying look, this is how we expected to end. we expected to be messy. we didn't have a lot of confidence in the afghan government. there was a mission we were sent there to do, we did that mission, we come back. it gets into conflicting emotions and for some buddy who served in the vietnam era, there are a lot of vietnam vets right now in these headlines reopening some old wounds may be never dealt with. they want folks to know there is help for veterans of all ages, not just the ones who served r

outside in it's liter, osama bin laden had planned and executed the hijacking of commercial airlines and killed almost 3000 people in the morning of september, 11th, 2001. no one saw it coming and no one could explain it. it been loud and wanted to so fear in confusion, america. he had definitely succeeded. the u. s. response was massive and visceral, but besides decimating archived and killing bin laden, there's so much more that has happened in the past 20 years in the so called global war on terror, aka the global war on everything. america violated its own laws, is suspended habeas corpus protections for suspect it kidnapped that tortured and rendered suspects to 3rd countries to be tortured even more. and to look at every global challenge to the lens of islamic terrorism, along the way, fortunes were made by those benefiting from massive spending on national security. like new weapons and drones, vehicles, surveillance systems, you name it, even local police departments in the us started to look and act like the military. today when civil liberties are threatened and the master

there were reports last week that one of osama bin laden, the former leader of al-qaeda, his securityers in different towns in afghanistan and being clouded as a hero. that is just a small example —— lauded. on the one hand the taliban are saying certain things to contain international terrorist threats that may emanate from the country, but on the other hand they apparently welcomed one of osama bin laden�*s former security chiefs who is a known and sworn member of al-qaeda. it is a test for the taliban to pass. if there is a direct terrorist threat that generates from afghanistan, then they will have to face the consequences like they did after 9/11 are being held responsible for that. that is javed responsible for that. that is javed ali. — responsible for that. that is javed ali. a _ responsible for that. that is javed ali, a former - responsible for that. that is javed ali, a former counter| javed ali, a former counter terrorism official with the us government. let's get some of the day's other news. lebanon says syria has agreed to help it import electricity to help ease power s

navy seal thought and killed osama bin laden.ith the global war on terrorism. >> terrorism was no longer a police issue, it was a true national security threat. >> this 20th anniversary comes as 20 years u.s. war in afghanistan and the taliban is back in charge. >> to see the movement of the perpetrators in that 11 is a failure. >> terrorists are still, the hope is lessons learned will be future global attacks at bay. some hope for the home base of afghanistan. >> sacrifice i made from a it was worth it. >> the inscription laid at the memorial today, 9/11, lest we forget. a lot of people, a lot of things. jon: . healing power of sports on this 9/11, special edition from citi field in queens, new york at the top of the hour where they would take on the yankees at a special subway series game play ball tonight. ♪♪ tragic attacks of 9/11 inspired millions of men and women to fight for their country and afghanistan and iraq. joining us now, one of those. let's bring iraq veteran and founder, don. you are in capitol hill when 9/11 hap