joining us once again, retired army colonel and msnbc jack jacobs. o see you once again. let's talk about the security here in the u.s. and abroad. what kind of impact will this have? >> probably quite a bit visibly, but not really a great deal. superficially we'll have lots of people in uniform, some of them with submachine guns and all that sort of stuff. but by and large, if the bad guys wanted to do something, they're not going to do it today in any case. they'll try something much later on. a lot of this is to allay public fears that might exist that there might be some immediate retaliation, which there probably won't be. >> let's talk a little of what we know about this historic raid. jasoc reported last night by richard engel, that's a name we're going to be hearing in the coming days. >> the joint operations, means all services, the army ranger regiment, s.e.a.l.s, the commandos, all combined into one special operations unit. and it's different from special forces, army special forces. it's probably a lot smaller force than people think. they

joining me now, retired army colonel and military analyst, jack jacobs.you. >> good morning, alex. >> let's talk about what we know, osama bin laden was living in this compound right next to pakistan's version of west point for some three years or so, maybe up to five years. >> i think the place was put together in '05. i think he's been there at least six years, five or six. >> giving even more credence to this question. do you believe people in the area, intelligence, military officers, did they know osama bin laden was in that compound? >> oh, sure. and any statements to the contrary have got to be baloney. you can't be next to the biggest compound in the area, except for the military, and not know that it was there. especially since it had no connections electronic connections to the outside world. burned their trash and all. >> couldn't that have kept the identity of osama bin laden a secret? >> certainly somebody was living there who didn't want to be known. the conclusion was very, very easy that it was bin laden. furthermore, there's very little d

joining me is retired colonel and analyst jack jacobs. good morning to you. clearly the u.s.with this drone attack continuing the fight against al qaeda there. but -- tell me about this man, al awlaki. is he seen as a successor to bin laden? >> possibly. a real fire brand. of course he got out of the united states. it is -- al qaeda is a very fragmented organization. and so -- he might very well be in charge of one of the most significant parts of it down in yemen and in -- east africa. a lot of recruitment and trending that takes place over there. but right now with -- osama bin laden gone, the flagfragmentati osama's second in command, zawahiri. >> with regard to the u.s. having requested names of pakistani intelligence officials, they say who may have had -- want to find out if anybody had knowledge of bin laden hiding there. >> we know they did. >> well, we -- okay. so -- if you know they did, is there a way to get that information for the u.s. to speak with them directly or is that just not going to happen? >> that's interesting. i think the -- cache of materials and inf

joining me now, military analyst jack jacobs.ing to you. >> good morning. >> clearly the u.s. is continuing the battle against al qaeda, evidence of the drone attack. is he seen as a real successor to bin laden? >> yes, but only in yemen, particularly south yemen, maybe north africa, somalia and so on where there's growing insurgency, it has been difficult to control the growth of al qaeda in that region. he might take over that area. >> what about the report in "the new york times" saying the united states is demanding names of pakistani intelligence officials, they want to see if they had knowledge of osama bin laden being right under their noses. what do you think of that, is it likely to happen? >> they may offer up mid and lower level people they know about or can find out about, they are not going to do more. there are people fairly placed in the pakistani intelligence network, and though not at the top of the pakistani government, plenty of sympathizers within the pakistani army and government, sympathizers of al qaeda, an

jack black. what's next for jacob lusk? do you know? >> i don't know. that's exciting.i can't wait. >> what's next for your career? >> next for me is "american idol" tour and then hopefully an album coming from me. >> okay. i scan see that -- can see that. okay. jacob lusk, good luck. let's go back over to tori. >>> president obama travels to fort campbell kentucky to meet with some of the navy seals who took part in the raid on osama bin laden's compound. alison burns has more on how they knew so much about the compound. >> the president goes to for the campbell to meet the commandos we may never get to see. he has a jam packed day starting with a transmission plant in indiana and then fort campbell. he has a private meeting with the navy seals and the special operation pilots who carried them into pakistan. in fact, we may never know who carried out the mission. it is an elite secret group. we're learning how they knew so much about bin laden's compound. the cia retained a safe house in abbottabad. that helped the seals rehearse how they would take on bin laden. the w

jacob plus spoke. this is 50 minutes. spoke.ob liv this is about 50 minutes. and budget. jack is somebody i've known for about 35 years, i guess, because i knew him when he was a relatively young staff person on capitol hill. jack is a native of new york. graduate of harvard college. after he graduated from harvard college, he came down to work on capitol hill, working for tip o'neil, and worked on his staff for about eight years, rose up to be the head of development, head of policy planning for tip o'neil. after about eight years with the speaker, he left to come practice law in washington with vaness, feldman and curtis, practiced law for five years, and then came into the clinton administration, where he originally worked in the white house as special assistant to the president on certain policy areas including americorps. then went to the office of budget where he rose up to deputy director of omb to the director of omb and served from 1998 to dwun as the director of umb. during that period of time, the united states government had the largest budget surplus in our entire

jacob lew. he talked about reducing the federal debt. this is about 50 minutes. >> everybody take their seats. thank you. we are very pleased to have this evening as our special guest jack lew who is director of the office of management and budget. jack is somebody i have known 35 years because i knew him when he was a relatively young staffer on capitol hill. jack is a native of new york, graduate of harvard college. after graduating he came to work on capitol hill where he worked for tip o'neill and on his staff for eight years, rose to be the head of policy development, policy planning for it to the neil. after eight years with the speaker he came to practice law in washington with feldman and curtis. practiced law for five years and came into the clinton administration where he originally worked in the white house as special assistant to the president, certain areas including drafting legislation for americorps and went to the office of management and budget where he rose from executive associate director for omb to deputy director to the director of omb and served as director of omb from 1998 to 2001. in that period of time the united states government had the larg