into the bedroom and literally a foot away was osama bin laden with his hands on his youngest wife amal'sorward or being led by her. remember it was pitch dark for all the residents. the s.e.a.l.s obviously had night vision goggles on. he said the first thing he noticed was how extraordinarily tall. he didn't expect him to be that tall. he had to aim his gun up. he noticed his hair was quite short. his beard was quite short. he looked a little confused. the s.e.a.l. did what they are trained to do. >> it took just a split second, right? it was over boom like that. >> oh, like that. and of course these things if you're there, if you're the person, they seem to last forever. but the whole thing took seconds. literally seconds. >> there were some real grave concern. didn't he have that thought process. now i'm into this mess, if you will. how am i going to get out when the chopper crashed inside the compound, right? they were worried that they were going to get there before the pakistani military might get there. >> well, there have been all sorts of conversations before they went on the mis