they have to step up their game on that front. >> david gergen, live for us. still ahead here, another big shakeup in the president's national security team. does it mean a faster exit or stay the course in afghanistan? >>> and next sarah palin says that she is certain that there will be in entries into the republican race. how does her pitch compare to other republican hopefuls out on the trail today. blah? [ male announcer ] look at this, bridgestone is using natural rubber, researching ways to enhance its quality and performance, and making their factories more environmentally friendly. producing products that save on fuel and emissions, and some that can be reused again. ♪ and promoting eco-friendly and safety driving campaigns. ♪ one team. one planet. bridgestone. >>> we're live tonight from the gettysburg national military park. there's always a crowd here for the memorial day parade, a reflection. and today the town buzzing with word that sarah palin is here. >> are you trying to find her? >> i'm trying to find her, definitely. our daughters are over th

also, senior analyst david gergen. you've been there in the oval office as the sensitive decisions were being made. assassination is illegal under u.s. law. so how do we justify going in with all these troops and killing osama bin laden? >> well, first of all, assassination has been prohibited by a presidential executive order. a president can amend an executive order at anytime. but this is not an assassination because it's conducted as part of an operation, a military combat, and as a matter of u.s. law, the authorization for the use of military force, enacted after 9/11, which gives the president the authority to use force that he deems reasonable to go against those that were behind 9/11, clearly applies to bin laden. so there's no question about its lawfulness under u.s. law. under international law, bin laden is an enemy combatant. and one of the points of war is you can kill enemy combatants. now, if they surrendered and cease being a combatant, then you have to take them into custody. but you have no obligation

let's turn now to david gergen. he he anavigated the ups and downs of u.s.-israeli relations during his time advising four american presidents. david, when you listen tho play out, prime minister netanyahu sitting right next to the president of the united states lecturing in ed henry's terms, essentially sitting in the oval office next to the president saying mr. president, you're wrong. >> that's pretty tough stuff, john, and i do think it's partially about personalities. these two men have never liked each other. they don't respect each other for different reasons. and i don't think they trust each other. but they realize they've got to live in the same world and try to make some progress here. i think it must be a surprise and not what the white house wanted out of the speech yesterday, which the main purpose of that speech was to send a clear message to the arab world about america's embrace of the democratic movements there. and instead now the day after they're embroiled in these disputes with the israelis. i cannot imagine that's what they really want

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we want to bring in david gergen.likes to keep a low profile and that's not why he's going to attend the ceremony at ground zero with president obama. what do you make of this? >> well, carol, there are people around president bush who are irritated, sore, that they're not getting more credit for what they did in years past. they believe that the harsh interrogation techniques used on detainees in guantanamo did provide a clue to help find the courier that led to bin laden. they believe that president obama should have given more credit to president bush in that famous speech that he made a couple of nights ago. there is sourness around the president but i don't think that what motivates president bush. he and his family, you see this in the father as well, they have an old fashioned view, we only have one president at a time. and former president should essentially stay in the shadows and not second guessing. so his credit i must say, president george w. bush has not been critical of president obama at various moment

. >>> we want to bring in our david gergen. david, what is this about?ndidate, but she sure is great theater. this woman has a knack, almost a genius for starting up the press, getting the press to rise, as a mainstream press to follow her around, get this publicity. candy, i don't think she's going to run. she might, but i don't think so. i do think she was in danger because all signs pointed for her not to be running. she was beginning to fade a little bit. michele bachmann was the new darling, you know, of the conservatives. and, you know, she's stirring up a lot of excitement, as almost a second sarah coming. and i think by thisesq escapade this bus escapade, which was a lot of fun, sarah palin has imagined to put herself back in the spotlight and it will increase her speeches, it will increase her book sales, and it keeps her relevant. you know, her issue here is to stay relevant because i do think as long as she's relevant, she could have a big impact on who ultimately the candidate is. her endorsement or her rejection could matter in this campaign

david gergen is joining us from cambridge, massachusetts.use on a day like this. it's an extraordinary day. since the death of bin laden, it's been an extraordinary several days. david, take us inside the decision-making process that leads a president to make this decision to go to new york. >> well, wolf, much of the focus in the white house, of course, almost complete focus, trying to get bin laden. that was a enormously complicated 24 intner agency meeting. there comes a time wednesday you get the objective or something happen, inside the white house you begin to ask yourselves, how can we properly commemorate this moment? that's the right way to do it? coming to this site, 9/11 so analogous, going to pearl harbor and remembering world war ii and remembering those veterans, this is a way for the president to say, we keep our promises. we promised we'd remember you and we're doing that. just as important for this white house, wolf, as you know, has been a sense that getting bin laden was about keeping a promise to the world that we would d

>> david gergen, thank you for joining us. >> thank you.tened to the president's speech today. i thought it was a brilliant articulation of principles guiding ideas that should dominate and should be the guide post for our foreign policy, but then when it came to the part of the speech where i expected him to say now here is what we're doing in each of these countries, it seemed a little thin. >> i agree that satisfiesment, and i was surprised. normally presidential speeches, especially the ones that are labelled big, you know, they do have this sort of preamble. here's how we got here, and here are the principles that are going to guide our policy in this very complex situation, and now, therefore, i am now announce being the following three, four, five things the united states is going to do, and what the surprise was after the preamble, which was wonderful. i thought he did a beautiful job laying out the principles. there was no therefore. there was no follow lines. almost everything he announced especially with regard to the middle east

david gergen is with us. our senior political analyst has worked for american presidents. we throw that word out a lot. mth is truly a moment. >> it's almost as if we won a war. we've been in a long struggle. osama bin laden was not only the most hated men since hitler, he was the most hunted man in the world. and we've been after this such a long time and i think it's bringing out the sense of not only relief but celebration that we finally won one. and it's the best night of president obama's presidency. we're going to hear more and more about obama got osama. but then within the next few days, as we get into the tick tock, what really happened in pakistan? it appears that at least since august, that's nine months ago, osama has been living in this compound, this mansion. and as gloria reported, it was built years ago, the signs point to the idea that it was built for him. he may have been there for several years. if he's been there for that long of time, is there any doubt that officials in pakistan must have known, they must have sat on that, that the united states had

and david gergen. let me get to this new poll. this new cnn university of new hampshire poll.ook at this. romney, 33%. ron paul, 9%. gingrich, 7. everybody else really down, giuliani is not running. palin, 5%. john, first to you. you're from new england. is he like a native son, mitt romney, in new hampshire right now? >> yes. i was in new hampshire on friday. i spent a lot of time talking to republicans. governor huntsman, he was up there. governor romney is by far the overwhelming front-runner. he was governor of massachusetts, owns a summer home, a lake home in new hampshire. he has 1,000 percent name identification. he ran last time. so he is by far the front-runner. other than, that i wouldn't put too much stock in the early polling except to say that romney at this point has to win new hampshire. he's the big front-runner. he's not going to compete full time in iowa. new hampshire is the make or break state for governor romney. >> will other republicans ignore new hampshire looking at these numbs? >> no. they will try to take governor romney out. somebody will get a spri