elisabeth bumiller and daily beast's andrew. chris: with all the republican drop out and sarah palin talk the g.o. spfplt down to three with a serious chance to boat barack obama. mitt romney. tim pawlenty and john,huntsman. how would each do it? romney would probably be as manager and job creator. here is romney's offense and obama's defense. >> i like president obama. but he doesn't have a clue how jobs are created. >> an economy that was shedding jobs every month now has seen over two million jobs created in the last 14. chris: former utah governor john huntsenman, his strongest argument is he could get bipartisan cooperation. here is his main theme and obama's defense. >> we have been divided for too long. the yelling, screaming and

and elisabeth bumiller, pentagon correspondent for "the new york times," and helene cooper with "the new york times," and "the washington post" expert on intelligence and the middle east, david ignatius. first up, this truly is a panel of experts and we have three urgent questions today. how did our spy catchers score this win and what are they most worried about now, and how much sooner can we leave afghanistan? ck. let's start with you on how we did it. >> this was a perfect marriage between intelligence and the military, between c.i.a. and special ops. what this presages is the future of warfare. >> a lot of it was painstaking intelligence work involving clue after clue after clue and they got a key clue eight months ago, a license plate, followed that. that was a major thing that happened but also it was the ability of the c.i.a. and the defense department to work closely together which hasn't really happened before 9/11. chris: i think there's going to be more of that, isn't there? >> yes. chris: you have a lot of reporting about the role of the halfway house. >> two things this