greg miller, you spent the day poring through all of these documents.did you see after having covered this issue for so long that surprised and enlightened you? >> actually, there was one document in there that really jumped out at me and it was sort of something i stumbled through reading through. it's a document-- it's a letter, basically, bin laden sends to one of his wives who had been hiding in iran. in it, he is making plans or trying to make arrangements for him to join him in pakistan, and he reveals that the isolation there has gotten so bad and the security worries so bad that he had thought about moving thought about leaving that compound, and this was just months before that u.s. raid. and it just sort of shows, you know if that-- if he had followed through on that-- and it's not clear that he had taken any additional measures to do so-- the post-9/11 history we're all so familiar with now might have gone very differently. >> ifill: brian fishman you spent a lot of time reading various previous trawrchs of these documents, or similar documen

joining me now, greg miller national security correspondent for the "washington post," and dan benjamin director of the center for international understanding at dartmouth university. former coordinator for counterterrorism at the state department. thank you both. greg, you've been going through the documents for the last couple of hours. what are the most important things that you've seen so far? >> i don't think there's any new bombshell or plot that these documents disclose. there are some really interesting items including some messages that bin laden was sending out to his followers even right up until a month before he was killed in that raid in abbottabad. and you referenced the sort of bin laden bookshelf. his list of books that he except in that compound that he was going through. when you look through the titles reveals his obsession with understanding u.s. institutions and like the federal reserve, like the military and trying to find vulnerabilityies in those institutions. >> interestingly, dan benjamin he talks about the islamic state, attack strategy and says you should as

that's when coach greg miller made noah his starting pitcher. the hornets lost to oakton but not before he got two strikes in bringing the entire crowd to its feet. from the vatican, what's being said about palestine aft >>> two big stories out of of the vatican today. we learned vatican officials will now recognize the state of palestine in a new treaty signed today. the news comes as a major security test is under way at the vatican. the pope called for a special jubilee year this december. it only happens once every 25 years or so. police are expecting big crowds for that. amelia? >> it's chilly temperatures in the 50s and 60s, big temperature drop yesterday thanks to a cold front. 63 in annapolis and only 56 in martinsburg where there's plenty of cloudiness there. overall today, it stays breezy highs only in the upper 60s and low 70s with a mix of clouds and sunshine. tomorrow it will be more comfortable, we lose the winds, we have more sun, highs once again in the low 70s, so comfortably cool very spring like. on friday clouds increase a hi

that was until coach greg miller made noah his starting pitcher. yeah. well the hornets lost to oakton but not before noah there got two strikes in bringing the entire crowd to its feet. and i'm a proud hornet myself. friends there said it was just so surreal. the crowd was so touched by this moment. and noah i mean he's going to radford. just got in. he's going to be going off to college. >> he's a good pitcher too. >> i know. he was practicing a lot. >> looked great. a lot of excitement there. >>> we're looking at 6:27 right now. >> a college in virginia going to have its final graduation as the school closes its doors. but the president is not going to be there. we'll tell you why sweet briar college will be without its president today. >>> court documents telling a terrifying situation. screaming on a dorm floor screaming she'd been raped. what else the documents are e veal about the alleged attack. >>> we are expecting a warm and humid weekend. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is going to let us know how >>> at 6:30, your top stories this morni

but that was until coach greg miller made noah his starting pitcher. you saw that. he's got a great arm. >> he can pitch. no question. >> and this is really making the rounds online. the hornets lost to oakton but not before noah got two strikes in bringing the entire crowd to its feet. and if you watch the rest of the video, the clapping just goes on and on and on. a real proud moment for the hornet community and for noah who just got accepted to radford. good for him. a bright future ahead. >> he's a good pitcher too. >>> all right 9:27. >> a college in virginia will have its final graduation as the school closes its doors. but why the president of sweet briar college will not be there. >>> court documents that tell a terrifying story of a george mason university student screaming for help on a dorm floor saying she'd been raped. coming up i'll tell you what else these documents reveal about the alleged attack. >>> take a live look outside. expecting warm air and humidity. it is d.c. after all. storm team 4 meteorologi >>> in your top stories this morning, police