joe biden also felt the risks of act rather than waiting outweighed the benefits. the next morning in a reception room, obama told them it's a go. an amazing story, mike duffy.ock undermines the granular details you get in this piece, but it's almost a year to the anniversary. do you think when it's all said and done, the president has made some momentmental accomplishments, is this a defining moment. >> certainly the defining triumph, if there's a second term of his presidency so as far as. whether the public kashs about a s.e.a.l. team mission -- we probably will hear a version of that every day somewhere, maybe not nationally, but that line will get re-told over and over. >> here is my thinking, that it worn. it doesn't fit the defining narrative of this president's campaign and leadership. if you go to the decision itself, i remember talking to a high-ranks official, who said it was an extremely tough call, and it could have gone south and it would have been a disaster. you go back to eisenhower who made the decision to finally go on d-day and waits a full five minutes, and he says go. and the president, and biden says, look, we had to give him a recomme