jake tapper, at the white house, a remarkable scene now. a couple of hundred people starting to gather, singing the star-spangled banner, chanting usa, usa, usa. the reaction already coming in. >> that's exactly right. you might remember, this was a similar outpouring after 9/11 of people coming together and singing the national anthem. of course, it was a different mood. this is more jubilation. the jubilation outside the white house with tourists gathering, chanting, usa, singing the national anthem is not unlike the jubilation here at the white house with aides and officials huddling in the situation room since late morning. president obama, of course, about to address the nation. we're told a few more details to add to what others have said. bin laden was killed at a mansion in pakistan. this was a human mission. he was shot. the u.s. has the body. as we've talked about the important of the u.s. making sure this was osama bin laden with dna evidence. there is some real joy at the white house, both inside and as you see on the streets of

jake tapper, at the white house, a remarkable scene now. a couple of hundred people starting to gather, singing the star-spangled banner, chanting usa, usa, usa. the reaction already coming in. >> that's exactly right. you might remember, this was a similar outpouring after 9/11 of people coming together and singing the national anthem. of course, it was a different mood. this is more jubilation. the jubilation outside the white house with tourists gathering, chanting, usa, singing the national anthem is not unlike the jubilation here at the white house with aides and officials huddling in the situation room since late morning. president obama, of course, about to address the nation. we're told a few more details to add to what others have said. bin laden was killed at a mansion in pakistan. this was a human mission. he was shot. the u.s. has the body. as we've talked about the important of the u.s. making sure this was osama bin laden with dna evidence. there is some real joy at the white house, both inside and as you see on the streets of

both i think both they correlate and they all go together so jake here. correlates yes they do know they don't we wouldn't lose our freedoms if it wasn't for nine eleven what are you left all right mr bill o'reilly you want to be this and i'm sure it's i'm sorry you just love a liberal you need a system like gave you that comment not i gave you because and i did use really love you in my life something's wrong with this and this is this is an absolutely hogwash nine eleven truth god bless those people for thinking that you and i mean you're in you're in for a new investigation into yeah i specially support investigation but i don't believe that somehow it's a criminal conspiracy caused because of zionists promoting israel but i will also hold on i will still put repeal of the patriot act getting to that point where people want to respect their civil liberties and want the government certainly more and getting back to a real free press absolute anyways now you had a really amazing interview to with with prodigy from. well this is only a small tease the ful

are with us tonight we've also got more exclusive what is coming up with the reactions from luke and jake who are with us at the white house last night and in times like these when the storm of sorts cited this swirls they you can be glad you're watching adam vs the man. last night eight years to the day from one president bush declared mission accomplished from an aircraft carrier viewers of donald trump celebrity apprentice were interrupted by an announcement from the white house that the president would be giving a major address regarding national security at ten thirty pm eastern time. are we saying homeland security now. a threat to national security is not nearly as frightening as a threat to global insecurity anyway about an hour a half later after the ins is a patient it peaked in the news that actually leaked already obama addressed the nation to announce that osama. bin laden had been killed by a team of u.s. navy seals in an operation but he had no qualms taking credit for it was soon announce that because of a newfound respect for muslim burial practices and a desire to keep b

jake tapper is at the white house for us tonight. jake? >> reporter: diane, the obama administration has photographs of bin laden's corpse taken in pakistan, after began stan, and on the deck of that aircraft carrier. the director of the cia says he thinks the photographs will be released, but the president and others are concerned about inflaming passions, causing more murders and injuries to innocent civilians. u.s. officials who have seen the photographs describe them as bloody, with a massive gunshot wound to his forehead. >> it's fair to say it's a gruesome photograph. >> reporter: that could be inflammatory? >> it is certainly possible, and this is an issue that we are taking into consideration, is that it could be inflammatory. >> reporter: and yet white house officials are also grappling with the need to provide proof in an increasingly skeptical and conspiratorial world. as some on capitol hill are suggesting. >> the photos have to be released, to make sure we get rid of any conspiracy theorists who think we didn't take care of bi

>> all right, our chief white house correspondent jake tapper tonight. jake, thanks so much. and jake, as you know, more on this sunday morning on "this week." jordan's king abdullah sitting down with christiane amanpour. they will talk about the words president obama offered for that region, "this week." >>> still ahead on "world news" this friday night, the heart-stopping accidents at "spider-man." tonight, we're on the set with the actor who plummeted and survived. that show, now back on. >>> and, take a look at this. if you found $45,000 hidden in your brand new home, what would you do? this really happened. >>> and then later on the broadcast, you have to see this. four women, strangers, who meet for the first time after one man's extraordinary gift. it is a remarkable "person of the week." it can get really complicated. not nearly as complicated as shipping it, though. i mean shipping is a hassle. not with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. that is easy. best news i've heard all day! i'

and jake tapper is there, and jake, that meeting, of course, was behind closed doors but you've learned a lot more about what happened. >> reporter: away from cameras, president obama did not just thank the navy s.e.a.l.s, green berets and night stalker helicopter pilots that killed bill laden. those fighting men offered the president a detailed briefing on what went on, using a laser pointer, photographs, maps and even a small scale model of the compound. president obama told the 2,000 troops of the 101st airborne about his private meeting with their brothers in arms. >> it was a chance for me to say on behalf of all americans and people around the world "job well done." >> reporter: presenting the special forces with the highest honor, a presidential unit citation, he told them they're "the finest small fighting force in the history of the world." and that one reason he ordered the operation was because despite risks and uncertainty, "i had 100% confidence in you." >> they practiced tirelessly for this mission. and when i gave the order, they were ready. >> reporter: ft. campbell is h

this is jake tapper for "nightline" at the white house. >> thanks to jake tapper. and we head now overseas, to abbottab abbottabad, the quiet pakistan city where bin laden lived an died, and where new information is emerging about how he lived. here's nick schifrin. >> reporter: for years, osama bin laden was presumed to be hiding in a cave. but turns out, he was living in plain sight, in the middle class city just 90 miles from pakistan's capital. he and his family had the biggest house in the area, surrounded by massive 12 to 18-foot high walls, topped with barbed wire. you really get a sense of how imposing this boundary wall is, which is much higher than any of the walls around it. these people around this neighborhood said, when the children in this neighborhood were playing with balls and one of the balls went over one of these walls, it was never returned. it was a clear attempt for by everybody inside to keep everybody else out. outside those walls today, the compound became a tourist attraction. hundreds of kids came out. some found remnants of the u.s. he

even jake the dog is ready for this season to be over. >> we had to give jake quite a bit of benadryl to keep him from scratching his hide off. >> reporter: the good news is a lot of the allergy medications that used to require a prescription you can now get over the counter. that's a good step, especially for those of you who have never suffered before. but if you continue to have problems, see your allergist, and for those of you who do have cats or dogs who have allergies, a reminder, brian, this is one of the times to turn to the other doctor in your life, your veterinarian, before you decide to doze your favorite animal. >> i'm sitting here thinking about jake. thanks as always. >>> up next here, a close call on a commercial flight, and we'll hear from a very grateful pilot. >>> frightening moments for a planeload of passengers on a cafe pacific jet forced to make an emergency landing in singapore after one of the engines caught fire. the aircraft, a twin-engine airbus 330, 136 people aboard, had just taken off from singapore, bound for jakarta when passengers heard two loud bang

and jake tapper is at the white house tonight to tell us why. jake? >> reporter: good evening, diane. well, that's right. president obama decided that given the graphic nature of the photographs, releasing them would pose a national security risk. he said, quote, americans and people around the world are glad bin laden is gone. but we do not need to spike the football. no photos. that was the president's decision this morning, having been strongly urged by secretary of defense bob gates and secretary of state hillary clinton that releasing the photos could do far more harm than good. inflaming paxes in the muslim street. putting u.s. troops, government personnel and american citizens at risk. it is enough that the u.s. killed bin laden, the president said. >> the terrorists who startled this war and who took so many innocent lives learned that america does not forget. america will ensure that justice is done. >> reporter: today, the president told "60 minutes," it is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in th

and jake tapper has all of that from the white house tonight. jake. >> good evening, diane. well, president obama had top advisers telling him not to go through with this mission. the intelligence was not strong enough, they said. the risks were too great. but ultimately president obama decided the intelligence from the cia was solid. he had faith in the navy s.e.a.l.s. he told his team, it's a go. it was a nerve-racking three hours in the situation room sunday as president obama and his national security team watched in real time the navy s.e.a.l.s making their way to osama bin laden's compound. >> it was probably one of the most anxiety filled periods of time in the lives of the people who were assembled here yesterday. the minutes passed like days. >> as a presidential candidate, then senator obama argued he would refocus military and intelligence assets from iraq to afghanistan and pakistan. >> we will kill bin laden. we will crush al qaeda. >> reporter: in june 2009, less than five months into his presidency, the president wrote a memo to the cia director telling him, q

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jake tapper, abc news, the white house. >> our thanks to jake tonight. and so let's bring in christiane amanpour, host of "this week." always good to have you here in new york. tough words for israel but much of the arab world. he said that syria's president has a choice. how is this being received? >> reporter: well, indeed. syria shocked the world by its brutal crackdown. leaders who have spoken to the leader say he is in charge. so the president said he can either be with democracy and reform or get out of the way. it's the closest he's come to telling him to step down. that will be received well by syrians who are protesting. in libya, he said, moammar gadhafi needs to either leave or he will be deposed. but there is a bit of a stalemate there. that will be well received. and in bahrain which has really really seen a massive crackdown, people are praising the speech where he called for the rights of everyone to be respected. people have long called for the united states to end its silence on this terribly brutal crackdown against the majority there.

thank you, jake. he was 54 years old.ou have to wonder if he thought he would ever be caught. >> he vowed that he not to be caught alive. he went down fighting. this was a mission in the works for a long, long time. i want to go to brian ross. the first tip came in last august. >> that's right. it took a tip from the cia. eight mog months ago. it led to the bold military action that will go down as a major victory. he was hiding almost under the nose of the pakistani military in a city named abbottabad. this is home of a major military garrison. right here is the pakistani military academy, their version of west point. the bin laden compound was just down here. bin laden wasn't hiding in a cave, but in a pakistani city of 90,000 people. abbottabad, just north of the pakistani capital. tracking one of his trusted couriers, the cia discovered a compound with 12 to 18-foot wall, no telephones, but eight times the size of other homes in the area. just off major highway. the president gave the order for the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s

they have a frosty relationship at best, right, jake? >> there's no love lost. i think it's fair to say. i think it's fair to say when bebedidding in something i never saw happen, that which is this history lesson on the jewish people and surf that did not endear him further to the white house. >> were you stunned by that? >> it was pretty unprecedented. he was too polite to do it publicly. he saw an opportunity. clearly upset. he feels that he was set up. so this was pay back. it was pay back at a time when the prime minister feels pretty self-confident that the peace process is going nowhere. i'm not sure, for an american audience, you want to be in position of lecturing your only reliable ally. >> even jeffery goldberg who is the most reliable, said he was offended to see the israeli prime minister basically lecturing the president to the united states, and netanyahu went out of his way to alienate this president. >> what they're upset about behind the scenes is the israeli's knowledge, obviously the borders with mutually agreed upon land swaps is the basis f

jake tapper is at the white house with the latest details of this top secret operation over months, jakegood morning. >> reporter: good morning, diane. that's right. in preparation for the operation, sources tell us that the military recreated a replica of the come point for navy s.e.a.l.s to practice. tensions were high in the operations room. this is what bin laden's compound looked like after the attack. the president was not 100% certain bin laden was there. but the navy s.e.a.l.s launched the surgical strike and the fire fight ensued. u.s. forces killed public enemy number one, osama bin laden, one of his adult sons, two couriers, and a woman used as a shield by one of the male members of al qaeda. one helicopter was lost to mechanical failure. they put bin laden's body on the other one and took it away. >> the death of bin laden is a significant achievement. >> reporter: at 1:00 p.m., all the membprinciplipal members of team gathered. by 3:50, the president received first word that bin laden may have been identified. by 7:00 p.m., the president was told it was bin laden. with the n

i want to go back to jake tapper at the white house. jaime ja jake, the president went through his decision-making process here. said the operation happened today but osama bin laden has been in sights for the better part of a week here. >> that's right. they got the lead last august. president obama said that he had told, when he started as president, he told his cia director panetta he wanted the capture or killing of osama bin laden to be the number one priority when it came to the fight against al qaeda. and then in august they got a lead. they followed the threat through. then it was today that he gave the order and u.s. troops were told from our reporter on the ground there in pakistan, nick schifrin, that it was a joint u.s./pakistan operation. we'll hear more about that in the days to come. but we're told it was an on the ground operation in this one mansion, this one compound, and it was a successful mission. no civilians were killed. no u.s. troops were killed. and the u.s. has bin laden's body. jubilation inside the white hou

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. >> and we've got a little picture of jake there, right? awww.o jake is a major ceo in the making because you said so. >> i hope so. or jake, go for the shortened nickname, too. >> how is your first mother's day feeling? >> it feels pretty good. it feels good. how sweet. >> it's kind of weird for the first time hearing happy mother's day. you mean me? >> i know, i know. >> he's so sweet. aren't you lucky. debra shoo debra shively, always good to see you. >> thank you. >> happy mother's day to you and your mom. >> thank you. happy mom's day, mom. >> lirsten up, mom. not only do we have the list for you as you try to name your baby-to-be, do you know where the best places are for mothers? according to the best place, norway. it has the lowest infertility rate. it rounded out the top five. and then there are the worst places to not be a mom. chad, yemen, afghanistan, niger. in case you're wondering, where is the u.s. in all of this? there we are. lucky 31 down from 28 last year. what's going on? >> i love my mommy this much. the mississippi and ohio

jake tapper, abc news, london. >> a little ping pong among world leaders. >> not easy to play ping pong with those cameras watching. >>> a look at your weather, violent storms threatening a big area from indianapolis to shreveport with tornadoes, large hail and flash flooding. also stormy from houston to nashville, chicago, cleveland and pittsburgh. meanwhile, some snow in the cascades and the lake tahoe area. rain from seattle to san francisco. >> and looking at 65 degrees in sacramento. 71 in salt lake and 94 in phoenix. 65 in the twin cities, 71 in detroit and 72 in kansas city. upper 80s from dallas to miami. 91 in atlanta and 82 degrees here in new york. >>> coming up the skyrocketing cost of coffee, rising faster than gasoline. >> not good news on this shift. >>> then, will u.s. taxpayers be left with the bill for dominique strauss-kahn's six-figure severance? >>> capping her 25-year run. what we know about the finale show as oprah says good-bye. ic >>> the federal government is getting back more of its bailout money. the giant insurer, aig, yesterday sold its first new stock offe

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>> okay, jake.of state, former adviser, condoleezza rice. she joins us from stanford university this morning. the white house thinking of releasing that photo of osama bin laden maybe today. is that a good idea? >> they have to make that judgment. they are weighing the factors. there are some talking about confirmation. perhaps this will provide it in some parts of the world. >> is evidence important? >> of course, evidence is important. but there's no reason to doubt that osama bin laden was killed. he is now -- that chapter is behind us. and he's been buried at sea. >> you were part of the hunt for osama bin laden for eight years in george w. bush's white house. that must have been an amazing moment for you, personally, when you heard the news. >> it was an extraordinary moment because it really said so much about the united states of america. i remember when president bush said, we will not tire. we will not falter. we will not fail. he really meant the united states of america. and president oba

thank you, jake tapper. >>> two weeks after the raid that took down osama bin laden, the u.s. and pakistan are working to mend fences. with secretary of state hillary clinton planning to visit pakistan soon. during the operation, you may remember, we told you, right here, the u.s. lost a secret futuristic helicopter. the navy s.e.a.l.s even blew it up at the scene, fearing that china would get its hands on the technology. well now, pakistan is promising to return the leftover parts of that chopper tomorrow. >>> and still ahead on "world news" -- a simple blood test that claims science can predict how long you'll live. will you take this test if you could? >>> and a medical mystery. a mom silenced. she lost her voice because of a common cold? see how ten minutes gave it back. when your eyes are smiling... you're smiling. and when they're laughing... you're laughing. be kind to your eyes... with transitions lenses. transitions adapt to changing light so you see your whole day comfortably... and conveniently while protecting your eyes from the sun. ask your eyecare professional w

>> all right, jake. what a meeting that will be. and in a moment right here on "world news," we may have a revelation about who will be in that room. a four-footed warrior. s.e.a.l. team six apparently included a dog trained to help take down osama bin laden. more on that in a moment. >>> but we move now to the news that millions of americans have been waiting for month after month. skyrocketing gas prices, finally heading down. today, oil prices took a plunge, below $100 a barrel. does this signal that the gas prices are soon to follow? how soon? matt gutman in miami tonight. >> reporter: today, all-time highs in four states, and 24 other states are within pennies of their records. hawaii still has the nation's most expensive gas, but the nation's heartland is catching up. >> these prices are crazy. i'm putting $20 in here and by the time i get home it will be gone. >> reporter: but we learned today, the national average may have peaked, short of the $4 mark. oil and gasoline futures collapsed today. crude oil tumbled nearly 9% to

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jake tapper on the pummeling 48 hours. >> reporter: former house speaker newt gingrich has generated a lot of buzz in this first week of his presidential campaign. unfortunately, it's not the kind of buzz candidates generally want. last night in minnesota, he was assailed with glitter by a gay rights protester. and on fox news, he refused to explain the up to half a million dollars owed to high end jeweler tiffany's. >> i frankly don't want to play the gotcha games in washington and i'm just not going to participate. >> reporter: but it was a comment gingrich made on sunday that really riled republicans, when he was asked about the house republican medicare plan. >> i don't think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering. i don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for free society to operate. >> reporter: gingrich's harsh words for house budget committee chairman paul ryan's medicare proposal upset many conservatives. >> calling it radical and right wing social engineering is deadly. >> reporter: inc

can be cut and a lot of cuts that could be made and that was military analysts and our team blogger jake deliberate oh now what imagine something for a second imagine you attend a film screening of a documentary or if you're an activist to talk slogans fear cars on the sidewalk or maybe you're involved in anti-war environmental or peace activism in any way and you find yourself suddenly being spied on by the f.b.i. they seem terrorism charges or talk drawings or having your house ransacked by the feds all in the name of their counterterrorism efforts that's exactly what some activists in the u.s. allege is going on earlier i spoke with one of them carlos months has a long time to call activist and co-founder of the ground raise the f.b.i. raided his home taking his computer and historical documents earlier this month and he's also a member of the committee to stop after a repression so here is his take on the whole situation. another different view a rise of her profession by the homeland security using the f.b.i. using the federal grand jury not only against peace activists at the annou

tonight jake join me for a full recap of last night's g.o.p. presidential debate including a special appearance from none other than former new mexico governor bill richardson we've got an exclusive with matt dillon on osama bin laden and we'll pin down jake and lou all the world's smallest political quiz how the time flies when liberty is on the rise you're watching adam versus the man. last night's republican presidential debate in south carolina kicked off a long battle for the privilege of facing off with barack obama but this was not the g.o.p. a four years ago in the two thousand and eight presidential debates it was the big government interventionist neil cons against the not so big government social conservatives that was the quintessential divide between the candidates against that backdrop it's understandable why ron paul was cast aside as an outsider but not last night it would seem now the struggle for the soul of the g.o.p. will be between the libertarian or libertarian leaning constitutionalists and the social conservatives now th

senior white house correspondent jake tapper. foreign correspondent martha raddatz and justice correspondent pierre thomas. thank you all, what a week it has been. i want to go to you first. everybody is worried about the so-called treasure trove and what it might be telling us. we tried to get from donilon and haqqani what is out there. is there anything out there that we should be worried about right now. >> there is no specific imminent threat they found but i can tell you what they're most concerned about. right now the most immediate threat are so-called lone wolves, typically radicalized on the internet sympathizing with al qaeda, those are the people who might show up at a mall and start shooting. the first level. the second level of level is al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and in yemen, if you will. they're led by the radical clear irk anwar al aawlaki and tried to have the christmas underwear bombing and followed it up nine months later with the parcel bomb attack out of yemen, as well so the concern is they will try t

there that would say it is indeed the nanny state taking into effect i think we're still waiting for jake of but if you also look at a lot of scientific data there of course we've seen a lot of studies as of late that show that the effects of secondhand smoke even is he back jake and can you hear me now. oh you're ok with a lot of it go yeah we lost you for a minute i'm happy that you're back or did you hear my first question at all is this protecting this protecting the rights of nonsmokers or is this infringing on the rights of smokers i was saying that we all pay taxes so in essence all of our money goes into these public parks and boardwalks to keep them out but is it always the moral argument that wins in the end. well i think if you look at the justification for smoking bans it that we are personally baron's along this usually of a size that is this is to protect bystanders and to protect nonsmokers from the second hand smoke but i think the real motivation of the real payoff in terms of the public health agenda is to get smokers to quit so in a city like new york where you can't sm

and here now to talk about this is a military analyst and arteaga locker jake elevator taking so much for being with us so first of all robert gates is someone we seen come out before and talk about reining in defense spending now all of a sudden he's going to be retiring in a few weeks and he's saying that cuts in spending to defense spending could be you know bad that this is not a good thing and he's kind of railing against that what is going on here what's behind the change of heart and clarification i'm not so sure that he said that cuts would be bad he talked about making appropriate cuts and he talked about practical ways we could make cuts were he swore he was saying the cuts would be bad is that if you want to continue the foreign footprint that's been prescribed by people above his crate paygrade including congress and obama and the national security apparatus you have to fund it so that's what he was talking about he's secretary gates yesterday made that made the point to try to find efficiency in spending and contracting while we maintain this foreign footprint abroad ok s