bin laden is dead. multiple sources and osama bin laden is dead.s, hope days, everybody. this is the greatest. this is the greatest night of my career. the bum is dead. the savage who hurt us . so grevously. and i am so blessed and privileged to be at this desk at this moment, his continued existence on this earth, osama bin laden's existence on this earth represented a continued humiliationn to the united states of america. the man responsible for the mass murder of so many innocent men and women and children including friend and neighbors of mine finally gone and our long nightmare is over. i will never forget the thrill hat ran through my body when the news was confirmed that he died by a bullet of one of our warriors. so many who had died in 9-11 . 2011. it was exhilarating. part mardi gras and new year's eve. oh, happy day and there is a patriotism that this generation is not noted and expressed. but the usa. chantsful usa. patriotic. really a feeling. the fact that i was on the air breaking the american news to the american people is a great

. >> the pakistani doctor who helped track osama bin laden down. he could be tried for high treason. he's talking about bin laden saying someone in the government in pakistan must have known where he was hiding out. >>> look out iran. a couple of guests are arriving in your fine country today. they are weapons inspectors of the iaea sort. they are looking for what you are up to. all of this while leon panetta has been warning that, you know what, iran might just have the bomb within a year. >>> and it is occupy d.c.d day. the protesters are facing a deadline to get out today. very tense moments just blocks away from the white house. they do have a little something up their sleeve, the protesters do. >>> all of it will unravel live. in the meantime we're still on the tick tick talk to the primary. 26 hours if my math is right until the polls open in florida. it's looking real good for mitt romney right now. a whole bunch of rallies taking place over the weekend for both candidates. newt gingrich has been really trying to push the whole liberal label

. $2billion per week, but osama bin laden is dead. al-qaeda is all but gone from the country, and the afghan government is negotiating with the taliban. okay. best government dollars spent, pat? >> it's keys off you, john. seal team six taking down bin laden and the targeted hits on al-qaeda itself. but i agree with you on afghanistan. >> eleanor? >> best government doral i would say unemployment insurance in this time. >> rich? >> every penny spent on missles which are a great instrument for global justice. >> i was going to say killer drones, which is exactly what you are referring to. i would also add the salaries of the people in the counterterrorism unit of new york city police who have done an unbelievable job in taking care of the terrorist threats to new york. >> the best government dollars spent, the money spent to bury osama bin laden in accord with muslim traditions. killing bin laden was a spectacular feat, but it would have been marred if the handling of the corpse offended devout muslims. more importantly, a land burial

"i killed bin laden!"ait, if everybody there sucks, how are you going to get the voters on your side? perhaps you brought something in your goody bag, santa? >> we're providing new tax credits to companies that hire vets. if you're an american manufacturer you should get a bigger tax cut. if you're a high-tech meferrer we should double the tax deduction you get. extend the tuition tax credit we started. expand tax relief to small businesses. pass clean energy tax credits. create these jobs. (applause). >> jon: my god, he's tax credit oprah! (laughter) "you get a tax credit! you get a tax credit! everybody gets a tax credit! and then john travolta's coming!" wow, obama was killing it! i mean, nothing could stop his momentum. >> we got rid of one rule from 40 years ago that could have forced some dairy farmers 130-to-spend $10,000 a year proving that they could contain a spill because milk was somehow classified as an oil. and with a rule like that, i guess it was worth crying over spilled milk. >> jon: by t

before bin laden, panetta helped balance the federal budget.long career, he had been budget director and white house chief of staff. but by 1997, he left washington and went home to california. it was 12 years later that president-elect obama made an odd request-- would panetta lead the c.i.a.? panetta had never worked in intelligence, but it was his team that put a navy seal in bin laden's bedroom. this summer, the president made panetta secretary of defense, in charge of managing three million employees, fighting three wars, and stopping iran from building an atom bomb. this last tuesday, before the president spoke to the nation, he had a few words for leon panetta. >> president barack obama: good job, tonight. good job. >> pelley: with nearly the entire government assembled for the state of the union address, maybe ten people in the room knew what that was about. the navy's seal team six had just rescued two hostages, including an american woman. this time, the action was in somalia. in how many countries are we currently engaged in a shooti

. >>> is and new revelations from defense secretary pineda about the raid that killed bin laden. >>> and we've got some light snow showers. here's a look at your monday wake-up weather as you're heading out the door. no. by 9:00, chilly, but lots of sunshine. details on your work week forecast, and warming up details a little bit later. >>> with a new poll showing him trailing by 15 points newt gingrich is slamming mitt romney for carpet bombing his records. a pole showed romney with support of 42% of likely voters in the florida gop primary with beginning rich now slipping to 27% w. one full day of campaigning left, danielle nottingham reports from tampa. >> you guys are wonderful, thank you! >> reporter: mitt romney played up to florida's latino voters. he called on his son craig to rally the crowd in spanish. romney is targeting the hispanic community to try and extend his double-digit lead in the polls. as romney surges, newt gingrich is upping the attacks. he is now calling romney a liberal. >> this party is not going to nominate someone who is a pro abortion, pro gun control, p

and he's blames us for 9-11 and capturing bin laden instead of killing him.e are in the middle of the war and not going away soon and ron paul talks dramatic and -- >> critics oversimplify, too. he is ridiculous. we spent 700 billion dollars and making enemies with ours. >> i want to disagree with what colonel hunt said about ron paul. that he blames us for 9-11. >> he said of the reasons we were attacked because of osama bin laden. we have troops n saudi arabia. >> that's right. he was not the only one. deputy secretary of defense in an interview of may 2003, said the great things of getting troops out of saudi arabia, it was a huge recruiting device for al-qaida. he admits one of ron paul's main points and he is a conservative that pushed for the war in iraq. >> isn't it one of the reasons that people attack us we have troops in their counselry? >> first of all why 2000 americans got killed had little to do with saudi arabia and everything to do with osama bin laden and al-qaida. a guy running for president of the united states who is getting poll number ov

it was the same elite team of seals that killed obama bin laden. -- osama bin laden. >> backup special operations forces remained in the air. moving quickly and quietly, the commandos pressed about the mile and half to the nearby camp where us intelligence had determined that danish coworker were being held. at the closing, shots were fired. all nine of the suspects were killed but there were no american casualties. they carried the three captives to cbt. they were kidnapped october 20 fifth in the lawless region of somalia where pirates and criminals can use kidnapping. the senior administration official said president obama decided monday night to watch the rescue after fresh intelligence revealed that buchanan's health was quickly deteriorating. the successful mission came just months after the trek down and killing of osama bin laden. this morning vice president biden praised the rescuers. >> everyone should know, we will find you. we will find you and take care of americans interests. >> one option was to possibly take them alive but another said they were heavily armed with explo

the government list of co-conspir ators made their way to osama bin laden.his compromised our intelligence ability and ability to stop the next terrorist act. >> i don't know if that is the case. we have an imperfect system. it is not based on punishing the guilty. but based on those that are proven guilty. if the government can't prove guilt and the person is not worthy of punishment no matter what the crowds think. that is the reason we have the constitution. they call it star chamber. you argue that the new defense authorization act gives the president more power than king george. explain. >> for the first time in the end of reconstruction period. the federal government can use the military for ordinary law enforcement purposes. they are not going to be directing traffic. they will arrest people that the president want to arrest x. so this statute purports to give, i believe the courts will inval date it the president a reason to arrest and ship them to cuba and they can't see a judge or lawyer or jury and they will at a there as long as the president wan

couldn't confirm that bin laden was there. dr. afridi got inside the compound under the pretense of running an. ization program but he never saw bin laden either. afridi was arrested after the raid. leon panetta was the c.i.a. director in charge. he's now secretary of defense. >> there is a pakistani doctor who, as we understand it, was helping our efforts there, a man named shakil afridi. he's now been charged with treason in pakistan and i wonder what you think of that. >> i'm very concerned about what the pakistanis did with this individual. this was an individual who, in fact, helped provide intelligence on... that was very helpful with regards to this operation. and he was not in any way treasonous towards pakistan. he was not in any way doing anything that would have undermined pakistan. as a matter of fact, if pakistan... and i've always said this. pakistan and the united states have a common cause here against terrorism. and for them to take this kind of action against somebody who was helping to go after terrorism, i just

>> there was the success with bin laden. with iran there's not success yet.united states and so does russia. there's not the unanimous consent worldwide the president was speaking of and iran is still doling nuclear weapons. all over the middle east, the united states is less popular now than it was a year ago, two years ago, or three years ago. so those are things that mitt romney can capitalize on going forward. but most importantly will not be those issues. it will be the economy, and that's what mitt romney will focus on. that's the winning argument for republicans. obama has not gotten it done, republicans will. >> i want to play some of the president's closing argument talking about the navy s.e.a.l.s who captured osama bin laden. take a listen. >> one of my proudest possessions is the flag that the s.e.a.l. team took with them on the mission to get bin laden. some may be democrats. some may be republicans. but that doesn't matter. just like it didn't matter that day in the situation room. when i sat next to bob gates, a man who was george bush's defens

it was the same special operations unit that killed osama bin laden. bob orr is in washington with details. bob. >> reporter: scott, for navy seal team six it was yet another daring raid in the dark with commandos parachuting into a remote region of central somalia. sources say about two dozen seals jumped from an airforce transport plane near the desert town of djibouti. moving quickly and quietly, the commandos crept about a mile and a half to a nearby camp where u.s. intelligence had determined american aid worker jessica buchanan, and deignis coworker poul hagen thisted were being held. as the seals closed in on the somali kidnappers, shots were fired. all nine of the suspects were killed, but there were no american casualties. two army helicopters swooped in, picked up the seals and the freed captives, and carried them to safety in djibouti. they were kidnapped october 25 in a lawless region of somalia where pirates and criminal gangs used kidnapping as money-making operations. the two were working in that area with a group clearing mines and unex

anyway, ahead this morning, we're going to take you behind the bin laden raid. secretary of defense leon panetta said pakistan had to know that bin laden was there. >>> also, it's endorsement number two from herman cain. remember, he endorsed we the people. >> the people. >> if you hold out, he will endorse you eventually. he's going to join us by phone to explain his change of heart because now he's endorsing newt gingrich. >>> and this story, roland loves this story. man buys super bowl tickets, going to propose to his girlfriend and then she dumps him after he is diagnosed with cancer. but, but, but, but it gets worse. wait to hear what she would like now. that's our "get real" straight ahead. ♪ [ female announcer ] life is full of little tests, but bounty basic can handle them. in this lab demo, bounty basic is stronger than the leading bargain brand. everyday life. bring it with affordably priced bounty basic. in your breakfast cereal, what is? now, in every box of general mills big g cereal, there's more whole grain than any other ingredient. that's why it

he gets high marks for what he said it was good to put a bullet in the head of osama bin laden.looking at newt gingrich, he was a little more of a dodge than a good answer. the economy getting good points, race getting very good points, foreign policy pretty much the same thing. that's the way it came out tonight. brett. >> john, very interesting from twitter. now let's get final thoughts from tonight's panelists. jerry, your thoughts on the debate? >> i think you saw a very aggressive rick san and newt gingrich on either side of mitt romney, which is what we expect the. i thought it was interesting the line of i a tack that didn't work for speaker gingrich is the bank capital one he's been writing. he moved beyond that and tried to work up the crowd in other ways and succeeded. i thought rick san was right at mitt romney's grill right away and that probably tells you where he stands in the race right now. i thought that mitt romney made a couple of good responses at the end. particularly when he took on the whole superpac of idea. it's sort of hang over the whole race and he sa

interview with the des moines radio station you said you were against the operation that killed osama bin laden. you said the operation that took out the twists responsible for killing 3,000 people on american soil showed no respect for the rule of law, international law. so to be clear, you believe international law should have constrained us from tracking down and killing the man responsible for the most brazen attack on the u.s. since pearl harbor? >> no. i did not say that. as a matter of fact, after 9/11 i voted for the authority to go after him. my frustration was that we didn't go after him. it took us ten years. we had him trapped before and i thought we should have trapped him there. i introduced a proposal to keep the eye on target rather than getting involved in nation building. >> no respect for international law was the question about the quote you used in des moines. >> i can't say -- his colleague was in pakistan, and we communicated, you know, with the government of pakistan and they turned him over. what i suggested there was that if we have no respect for the sovereignty of an

not is great with obvious, gaddafi, bin laden. weird looking guy at the end.ll miss. alan suse, a great comedian from laugh-in, made me giggle. even if i had no idea what he was saying. the first anticommunist to use american rock 'n' roll to bring down communist state there. should be statues of him everywhere, especially berkeley. kenny, the actor who played the scariest villain in the scariest movie of all time. "deliverance." i never went river rafting again. not that ever went river rafting before but you get the idea. staying out of the woods. bill keen, the creator of the family circus. delightful cartoon that always took place in a living room. most of the jokes went over my head, because i'm short. tom wilson, to creator of ziggy. if you didn't love ziggy, then you are probably a racist, satanist who should be put to death. you remember done leprue? the creepy infomercial host who croaked by his own hands this year. the spiky hair will be remembered long after the cons. and peter falk. was columbo the greatest show on tv? yes. and finally, the fearles

osama bin laden, definitely dead. dead as a door nail.ce in the state of the union. once at the very beginning. >> for the first time in two decades, osama bin laden is not a threat to this country. [ applause ] >> the president came back to killing bin laden at the end of the state of the union with a long anecdote about the navy seal team that conducted the operation and the unifying force of purpose, that is how a military team like that get things done. the point was that it should be an inspiration for all of us, particularly for the lawmakers in d.c. to find a sense of purpose to improve the country together. in case that point of emphasis from the president was not clear enough, there was the head of special ops, the part of the military that coordinates groups like seal team 6, the admiral sitting with the first lady. two mentions of the bin laden raid using example of u.s. troops accomplishing that goal as the inspiring rhetorical hook for the speech. the pride of place for the head of special ops command and still if the point w

and tonight, the american auto industry is back. >> reporter: osama bin laden is dead. general motors is alive. those points folded neatly into another of the president's goals, to wrap himself in the american flag. >> what's at stake aren't democratic values or republican values. but american values. no american company should be able to avoid paying its fair share of taxes by moving jobs and profits overseas. so much of america needs to be rebuilt. >> reporter: and with polls showing the country furious about the constant partisan warfare in washington, the president took direct aim at congress itself. >> as long as i'm president, i will work with anyone in this chamber, to build on this momentum. but i intend to fight obstruction with action. and i oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place. >> reporter: it's a good strategy. obama might not be the most popular president. but congress is really unpopular. just 13% of americans approve of the way congress is handling its job. things that are more popul

he ran a vaccination program and helped collect dna to verify that bin laden was in the compound. >> dan: highway 50 should be reopen in yosemite. huge boulders crashed down. crews have been working to clear the road driving in the north entrance of the park. it will have a gravel surface for the weekend and then have to close again to be paved sometime next week. >> carolyn: snow is not the issue there. there isn't much of it. >> dan: maybe not anytime soon. sandhya patel is here with the forecast. >> no snow for the yeosmt area but snow up in the tahoe area. weekend plans are fine for outdoor activities. highs were very spring like. 73 degrees in santa rosa. upper 60s, san rafael, concord, down to the morgan hill area. well around normal for this time. 66 degrees in oakland and 65 in san francisco. we'll do it again tomorrow. carbon copy conditions minus the fog. you probably remember how dense it was. the air mass has dried out and clear skies, temperatures are falling compared to 24 hours ago down five degrees in redwood city. concord down up to 10 degrees compared to 24 hours ag

team unit that the overcame and killed osama bin laden, it was a nighttime raid.ere nine outlaws killed in that raid in somalia. the american jessica buchanan. word had reached the administration, the secretary of defense and the president that her health was failing. she was running out of medicine. also a danish man, poul thisted. they had been abducted at knife point october 25th. isn't it remarkable just as in the case of the osama bin laden raid, the president gave a very high profile speech. back in may, it was something of less significance, but knowing this operation was undergoing at this time. you point out the president knew just before entering the chamber that it was a success. off wards he called jessica bu can fan's father. they released a photograph. the president not yet departing the capitol, making the call from one of the suites inside the capitol. in a statement today praising the courage and capability of the american military s.e.a.l. team 6 although it was not the same individuals of that unit who the executed that rescue last night. >> ind

had two words that summarized the results of the attack on bin laden: mission accomplished. pakistanis had a completely different reaction to that. a pew poll taken after the attack showed that 55% of pakistanis thought that the attack on bin laden and killing him was a bad thing. and that's not because pakistanis think that violent extremism is a good thing. they don't. by overwhelming margins polling consistently shows tremendous opposition among pakistanis to violent extremism. they're not particularly pro-american by almost equal margins. they have strong reservations escalating into real hostility to what they perceive as american interference with their own sovereignty. and so while from an american point of view the impact of the attack on bin laden was a great success as i think it was, from a pakistani point of view it put them into a politically untenable position. if they did not know that bin laden was in abbottabad, then they looked incompetent and ignorant. if they did know, then they were complicit. and nobody likes to be put in that position. and from a pakis

not is great with obvious, gaddafi, bin laden. weird looking guy at the end.miss. alan suse, a great comedian from laugh-in, made me giggle. even if i had no idea what he was saying. the first anticommunist to use american rock 'n' roll to bring down communist state there. should be statues of him everywhere, especially berkeley. kenny, the actor who played the scariest villain in the scariest movie of all time. "deliverance." i never went river rafting again. not that ever went river rafting before but you get the idea. staying out of the woods. bill keen, the creator of the family circus. delightful cartoon that always took place in a living room. most of the jokes went over my head, because i'm short. tom wilson, to creator of ziggy. if you didn't love ziggy, then you are probably a racist, satanist who should be put to death. you remember done leprue? the creepy infomercial host who croaked by his own hands this year. the spiky hair will be remembered long after the cons. and peter falk. was columbo the greatest show on tv? yes. and finally, the fearless b

we don't know how much lead time we had on the bin laden one. i understand we had upwards of three months on the hostage rescue one here. i won't get into specifics because the world doesn't need to know that. but generally speaking, time is your friend in a situation like this. you're able to look for vulnerabilities, find out best way to hit the target, plan, plan, rehearse. but the guys who did this are so good they could also get the call ten minutes and ten minutes later it's done. that's just how good these guys are. they're a super bowl winning team for the last decade. >> super bowl winning team indeed. john, you have done this before. parachuting in from a helicopter undercover of darkness into what could be quite hostile tear toy. take us into the training and then the mindset as you jump out of the bird. >> you know, the training for a navy seal is not for the faint of heart. we train to never quit and to always win. and i'll tell you, these guys are focused. sometimes on the news you hear about olympic ath lights, the folks is takes