this information shared with filmmaker katherine bigelow. first, do we know, has bigelow been to washington? has she been to the pentagon for this film? >> reporter: what we know is officials are telling us that katherine bigelow, the award winning director of that movie the hurt locker about the war in iraq has spoken with administration officials about her team's new project to make a movie about the raid that killed osama bin laden. she, by all accounts, has had some meetings, has talked to people about it. what we are told here at the pentagon is her project is still, we're talking hollywood, in the development phase. she doesn't have a script yet or specifics yet. she's developing the project, possibly developing the script to go ahead and make the movie. not unusual. there is right down the hall from where we broadcast here in the pentagon, maybe 20 steps away, is a hollywood liaison office, which works with filmmakers, with television networks that want to make programs or movies about the u.s. military, works with them to give them a

a lot of outrage right now and if you ask me it's stupid outrage over the idea because there katherine bigelow is making a film about osama bin ladin and so now there are allegations because of one reports that somebody met screenwriter may have met somebody down wrote about it. i can totally messing this up let's just play the clip to get an explanation. well the making of a movie that will bring the bin ladin raid to life is causing some controversy in washington this after reports surfaced that the administration greenlighted access to the elite navy seals who took out related access by the. agreement but well ok so peter king now wants an investigation and republicans are up in arms and they're so angry i'm a regime that's not fake i'm totally zero three zero guys over there is going on what do you only reason about well first of all there's not even any real proof right was one thing that perhaps the screenwriter was at one event it was me and they greenlighted access to classified documents and classified information as peter king is trying to argue but the bigger point is that i'm sorry

katherine bigelow in her office issued a statement here today.cating that they were going to look at the history of searching for osama bin laden all the way back into the bush administration. it extends back into the clinton administration. no evidence they are getting access at this point to any classified information. it might be worth remembering. the pentagon even helped make the transformer movies. >> they have an office at the pentagon that deals with motion pictures. that's all they do. thanks for that. jack cafferty has the cafferty file and jeannie moos looks at a controversial magazine cover speaks foreign language ]ute [ male announcer ] in here, everyone speaks the same language. ♪ in here, forklifts drive themselves. no, he doesn't have it. yeah, we'll look on that. [ male announcer ] in here, friends leave you messages written in the air. that's it right there. [ male announcer ] it's the at&t network. and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. the authentic, the rare, the hard to define. to those always searching for

she said the white house is counting on the katherine bigelow and mark bowles big screen viewing of bin laden to counter obama's growing reputation. the movie is expected to open on october 12, 2012. perfectly timed to give a home stretch boost to a campaign that's grown tougher. is the obama campaign relying on hollywood to save it in the end? >> you're no hollywood guy. you know that would be a bad strategy to hitch our wagon to that. the truth is i didn't know about this movie until i read about it in maureen's column. maureen is a great friend of mine and a really talented writer. she pays a lot of attention to that stuff. i don't. the thing that's going to animate this campaign is when you have a choice. the choice is between candidates with starkly different views about how we build a better future, how we secure the middle class in this country. i don't think those who value that in our country are going to find much comfort in what they hear in this building tonight. and i look forward to the debate. a great debate. it can win because a majority of americans share our view on th

the top secret details of the bin laden operation handed over to film director katherine bigelow, woncar for the film "the hurt locker" passed directly to film focusing on navy team s.e.a.l. 6 who captured and killed osama bin laden. the film is set to be released in october 2012, one month before the presidential election. >>> next up, an unlikely comparison during a prayer event in texas. john hagee prayed over the host of the event saying rick perry, who's had courage today to call this time of fasting and prayer just as abraham lincoln did in the darkest days of the civil war. well, are we forgetting perry and lincoln would likely have been on opposite sides of the cessation argument that brought about the civil war? perry began floating this idea back in 2009 in a show of opposition to higher taxes. next up, finding it difficult to scrape by without being a target of comedians' punch liens in their career. an unlikely figure 2 is managing to do just that. sarah palin is a voiding him. let's hear an explanation for keeping his routine palin-free. >> i heard her speak the first cou

you may remember that katherine bigelow was the director and producer, i believe, on the other highlyovie, it's escaping my memory. >> "the hurt locker". >> right. and she's been working on the usama bin laden movie for sometime. she was working on it before he was captured and now has had to change the story line but ironically it's coming out october of 2012. why is that important? because november is the election for the presidency of the united states. >> yes, coming out three weeks before the election and remember, the bin laden raid was one of the biggest moments in this administration's history thus far. i mean, the administration would really like a movie that shows a positive president obama really in charge doing those gutsy moves. now, here's the problem. gretch just mentioned that congressman king is very upset because apparently, there are -- and he sent a letter to the pentagon and the c.i.a. saying hey, did you let these filmmakers in on any secrets? now, maureen dowd writes that apparently, the filmmakers did have access to classified information. she wrote that in "th