on that issue alone. >> amna nawaz, terrific to have such deep reporting. reporting from islamabad and today from abod ta bod. thank you for being with us. >>> michael leighter served to both president bush and obama. he was in the situation room that night with the president, the top national security team, monitoring the operation in real-time, a breathtaking, intense experience. michael joins us from new york from 30 rock. michael, thanks so much for being with us. looking back we look at iconic picture and other pictures that show you as well during those tense moments. what was, in your recollection, the most difficult moment? hillary clinton has said when they weren't sure that the helicopter going down could be replaced and also when they went inside and lost connectivity briefly. >> i think i would agree with hillary, andrea. really those moments when we saw the first helicopter go down we knew where the helicopter was supposed to be and we neat it wasn't where the plan had directed it to be. that moment of not knowing who was going to get off that

amna, thanks so much for being with us. this is such a heartbreaking story for his family.ore. was kidnapped. al qaeda is claiming responsibility. and they have some demands that are going to be very hard for the u.s. or indeed pakistan to go along with. >> that's true. as you mentioned, it's impossible for us to know when or where their video was made. that said, just by watching it we can tell there's clearly an effort being made to show that this is a man very much alive, he's very much well and he is being taken care of at least in the this video. he appears in the video wearing a traditional outfit. it's clean, neat, pressed. he's seated at a table. of book him. he has plates of food before him and even eats some of ta food as he delivers that message. that message is one in which he's speaking directly to president obama. it's important to note for the roughly 2:30 on which he appears on the camera, he makes an appeal toll president obama as an american citizen, asking him that he please consider the demands of his captors. those demands were made by al qaeda chief ay

>> nbc's amna nawaz. thank you very much. a programming note to remind you about "rock center" with brian williams tomorrow night. you'll see a special hour, a long look at the raid that killed osama bin laden. it's called "inside the situation room" airing at 9:00 p.m. eastern wednesday on nbc. >>> the discovery channel is hosting its own special on the intelligence gathered in that raid on bin laden's compound. it's called "secrets of bin laden's lair." you can watch that tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern on discovery. here's a quick look. >> in the aftermath of the raid on the compound, poring through the stash becomes priority number one. more than 200 analysts search against plots against america. their work is wrapped in secrecy. access to the highly classifd hall is only given to a select few outside the intel community. but for this program, our team in concert with nbc news is given an exclusive briefing. >> for years intelligence officials have said that his role with al qaeda had been reduced to an inspirational

. >> amna nawaz from pakistan.s bhutto zardari, the chair of the people's party and the son of benazir bhutto. what crossed my mind in seeing what happened, your mother whom i knew and who was widely respected here in the united states, i recall her speech to a joint session of congress. your mother was killed by al qaeda according to the u.n. commission report. how do you feel when someone who helped track down osama bin laden is put in jail for 33 years? >> unfortunately, andrea, that anyone collaborating with foreign intelligence, even of a friendly country, anywhere in the world, that's a crime. look at the case of jonathan pallard here in the united states where a u.s. court convicted him for life imprisonment for spying for israel. >> at the same time, pakistan has suffered egregiously from these terror bombings, these killings. as hillary clinton says very often, pakistan has suffered from terrorism as much as the united states has suffered, so why wouldn't you view this man's work as something that's honora

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>> all right, amna, thank you very much. nbc national security analyst michael rider is the former director of the u.s. nation 58 counterterrorism center where he served under both presidents obama and george w. bush. he was inside the white house situation room a year ago today. michael, good to see you. good morning. >> good to be here, matt. >> the most vivid memory from those hours inside that room? >> well, i think being holed around the screen when the helicopters first came in, and the silence, the tension, i think all of us knowing what a historic moment this really was, and still at that point, not knowing the outcome. >> you say when the helicopters came in. that was one of the moments where something did not go as planned. one of those helicopters went in nose first. the president did an interview with brian williams for "rock center" tomorrow night and talked about that instant. take a listen. >> it turns out to have been superbly piloted >> right. >> by a pilot who nosed it into the dirt to kill the torque of th