that's literally what bin laden did.when you think about that, here's a guy living -- he never left that compound. there were people living on that compound who did not know that bin laden was living upstairs. that's how deep he buried himself. his only communication was with his followers, his suicide bombers board nants through mail drops basically, courier, letters, and the courier who lived there took it and gave it to another and another, and they passed it until it was at its intended target. that was the guy who was doing everything right in terms of not being found. as i said, i think it's truly remarkable they found him. the story of getting there is this remarkable fusion of intelligence and special operations that i described in that brief reading from the prologue, and i talked about that in a lot more detail in the book. i mean, this doesn't bear directly on finding bin laden himself, but i found fascinating this concept of, i don't know if you heard of the concept of getting inside the information cycle of

i worked on the story from the day bin laden was killed. someone drop documents in my lap or call these surreptitiously but then nobody leaked overt -- anything much to my chagrin. often that is not the case. so the notion that happens but with a powerful conflict in our society between my role and your goal who has taken an oath to have a legal responsibility to not gone david petraeus store to sit down and talk, which we did for the book, know that he knows what information needs to be protected. he will not tell me things he should not. he may occasionally say this is off the record. zero you need to come back to see if i can use it. i do that. i go spend time worrying he knows better than i do. we're not there chatting over lunch especially when dealing with high levels that the cia there very caddie about talking to reporters. man couple of occasions i have affirmation i withheld at the request of the source. are you sure it is okay to write about this? i don't want to jeopardize anyone's life for an ongoing operation but i take my res

. >>> plus, finding bin laden, the woman behind the greatest manhunt of all time. >> bin laden is there and you're going to kill him for me. >> tonight, our martha raddatz with exclusive access to the most controversial movie of the oscar season. "zero dark thirty." >>> and the new dolly, the reigning queen of country opens up about her very first song, the extreme makeovers. >> my girls are doing pretty good. >> and frank details of her love life. >>> and good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. so, what did you do at work today? chances are good that on this cyber monday there was some point, click and buy going on. a record-breaking $1.5 billion worth of merchandise expected to have been order online today and no one shipped more orders than amazon. it's a company known for its competitiveness and its secrecy. but abc's neal karlinsky was allowed inside to see the amazon magic. >> reporter: this is what the inner world of amazon looks like on cyber monday. capitalism on parade. "nightline" was invited in for a rare glimpse at one of its 80 huge fulfillment centers strategically sprinkled

but bin laden survived. the clinton administration had other chances to kill bin laden.was in 1999. >> osama bin laden was visiting a camp in the southern part of afghanistan in kandahar province. a desert camp where there were princes from the united arab emirates emirates, and it was an excellent chance. we knew when he was going to be there. it was a very isolated area. there would be no collateral damage to civilians. >> but the commission learned that foreign policy concerns complicated matters. >> according to cia officials, policymakers were concerned about the danger that a strike might kill an emirati prince or other senior officials who might be with bin laden or close by. >> what i did was to call the director of central intelligence and say that i had finally been presented with satellite photography of the facility and it was very clear to me that this looked like something other than a terrorist camp. it looked like a luxury hunting trip and i asked him to look into it personally. >> the national security council instead decided to call the government of th

you can gauge as they tried to in this mission with bin laden. one of the options presented initially was just to bomb that comet pound to smithereens -- compound to myth leans. it would have killed every man, woman, dog, chicken and goat within a 500-yard radius. it would have left a big, smoking hole in the middle of abbottabad, and much to the president's credit, he dismissed that immediately. that was an overwhelming use of force to try to target one individual. so i think drones, as i staid, are a major advancement advancen humanitarian warfare. there is a scary side to drones, though, and that is if countries can single out and target individuals for assassination, basically, without any risk to their own personnel, without any significant, direct risk in firing that shot, it makes it a temptingly easy thing to do. and as of now the cia and the white house -- and i asked the president about this directly -- have not made public the due process that they follow to determine who is a legitimate target. how do we decide whether it's appropriat

then a movie about how we got bin laden but did they get classified information? that's a new controversy. >> you think you know the story but hold on to your seat. >> it's a huge controversy. an investigation was begun about you receiving classified material. >> who's guilty, who's innocent? we decide here on the "young turks." also the man who created pulp fiction, kill bill, inglorious bass starteds on the set today. and republican on republican crime, elbow of the day. go time. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> cenk: david pluck is one of the to which advisers for president obama. he's talking about what they're going to do in regards to the grand bargain and he says some things that are very, very interesting, revealing exactly what we had feared was going on inside the obama administration. first, let's start with his framing of the issue. >> democrats are also going to have to step up here and do some tough things, and the notion that somehow these deficits and our debt are not a threat to our national security and economic future is something i could not disagree with more

the bin laden raid will also be the subject of the hollywood movie zero dark 30. but it's the unapproved disclosure of information to electronic arts that has 7 s.e.a.l.s facing punishment now. >> reporter: electronic arts has no comment, although their website bust boasts thaw they used active duty commandos to write their game. live in redwood city, kristin ayers. >>> looking behind the buzz word. >> the looming fiscal cliff. >> the impending fiscal cliff. >> exactly what could happen when we get to the brink? the consequences that could be facing americans. >> and what parents may be doing to contribute to peanut allergies. >> and the mad dash for shopping goods. how commuters created gridlock on the way to a new bay area outlet mall. ,, for congress and the presidt >>> it's a bit of a prediction, but within a week, you will be sick of hearing the words "fiscal cliff" being repeated. in reality, it's a deadline for congress and the president coto come up with a deal on the bush- era tax cuts. grace lee takes a look over the edge. >> we won't solve the problem o

and not worth spending billions to kill bin laden. what is in the movie is joe biden's initial opposition in 2008 and other people, edwards, so many people and try to be very fair about that. but mitt romney is definitive and i guess they thought having him say what he said, would have put it in a political context. but then the president's speech is so much different. he said, if we have him in our sights, in 2008, i would move heaven and earth and do everything in my power to kill him. if you were interviewing commanders in chief, there's no question you would take the guy who makes the decision and not the guy who's so indecisive. >> you're talking with mitt romney and i want to stick with you for just a moment. i remember when you were filling in on cnn and interviewing former president clinton and said look, his business record is a good thing, has a lot of qualifications, but you say mitt romney is not qualified to be president. even those who oppose mitt romney, that's not a criticism that's often lodged. what disqualifies him

the young woman whose fierce determination found osama bin laden. the true story behind the movie, of the woman right there with s.e.a.l. team 6. >> and you're going to count on me. >>> good evening, and welcome back from the holidays, and tonight all of us together are on the verge of making history simply by clicking "buy" on the computer screen. it's the new american tradition, cyber monday, shopping online and what happens in the next few hours could have a big effect on the health of the nation's economy, and you can see how much right here. online shopping on this one day has nearly tripled in the last seven years. abc's neal karlinsky tells us what we're buying and why the big stores sometimes know even before we do. >> reporter: across the country today from so-called "couch commerce" at home to the cubicle at work, americans were buying at a record pace and having every bit of their online behavior tracked. we know that at least half of cyber monday purchases were made from a work computer while the boss wasn't looking, mainly between noon

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courier that gained bin laden?ld be curious to see if they talk about the enhanced interrogation did produce the courier. cheney, rumsfeld and -- >> eric: i don't know. 'canes is true -- >> dana: that is true. it is true. >> brian: so if they don't put it in, we should come back. >> bob: cover up over the pakistanis doing the whole thing. >> eric: we got to go. coming up, half a billion, make it $550 million up for grabs tonight in the lottery that everyone is talking about. but could winning the big bucks get you killed? a man takes shakespeare murdered after hitting the jackpot. that's ahead on "the five." >> dana: if someone dies from smoking whose fault is that. the smoker, company or both? there was a ruling to force three of the largest tobacco companies to advertise they deliberately dezeeed americans about the dangers of the smoking and the manipulated their products to increase addiction. i want to show an ad, an old ad from the 1950s. show from the makers of camel cigarettes. >> what great do you smoke, d

one of them was on the raid dhich killed osama bin laden and made seal team 6 a household name. for two days this spring and summer they worked as paid consultants on this recently- avleased video game "medal of honor warfire." four other members of the team who have since transferred out of the unit but are still on active duty are under e gastigation. the game does not recreate the bin laden raid, but it does portray realistic pictures such as an attack on a pirate's den al somalia. it was produced by electronic arts which boasts that real commandos, both active duty and retired, help make its games as realistic as possible. >> operators can jump at altitudes of 30,000 feet. >> reporter: it is unclear what secrets members of seal team 6 gave away but while serving as consultants for the game they use classified material which had been given to them by the navy. they also violated the unwritten lsde that seals are silent warriors who shun the spotlight. in fact, the seals have been buried in an avalanche of publicity, some approved by the commander of the bin laden raid, add no

obviously going after bin laden was the most famous example of the president doing this. the president has always had to make big decisions that is life-and-death sometimes for thousands of people. i don't think any president before obama had played such a regular and direct role on the battlefield. >> eliot: there is something different--i'm not quite sure if i can articulate but there is something different about making the decision on one specific person rather than we're at war with a nation, this military in to the coast to invade. it's a different type of subject call that the president is asked to make here. >> it is very direct, and also as the president told me, a tool that is very dangerous. it's relatively easy, and there is so little risk in targeting and killing someone anywhere in the world with this technology that i think due process some procedures and rules need to be put in place so that there are precedents and due process that administrations can follow in useing this tool responsibly. >> eliot: i think there will emerge shortly a consensus of what yo

since the raid that brought down bin laden, the seal's team has become a source of intrigue. other seal's are starring in a hollywood movie, act of valor. >> i think eight of them, one of them may be out now, that participated in this. it started off as a recruiting film. >> reporter: the bin laden raid will also be the subject of the hollywood movie dark 30, set to premiere in september. but it's the unapproved disclosure of information to electronic arts that has seven seal's facing punishment now. the reprimand that the navy seal's receive could hurt any future chances for promotion. in redwood city, christin ayers, cbs 5. >>> we're getting a look at the mountain of loot two women are accused of stealing from bay area homes. this is what officers say they found in the women's car. lots of handbags, jewelry and electronics. police believe the women burglarized 15 homes since june in santa clara, san mateo and contra costa county. >> to be honest, it was a little surprising to see the magnitude -- first of all, the magnitude of the items found, not only the magnitude but jus

one of them was on the raid which killed osama bin laden and made navy s.e.a.l. team 6 a household name. for two days this summer they worked on this video gam game, "medal of honor war fighter." several others are under investigation. the game does not recreate the bin laden raid but it does portray realistic missions such as an attack on a pirate vessel. it was produced by electronic arts which boasted real commandos active and retired made their games as accurate as possible. >> operators can jump at altitudes of 30,000 feet. >> reporter: it's unclear what secrets s.e.a.l. team 6 gave away but they used classified material which had been given to them by the navy. they violated the unwritten code that s.e.a.l.s are silent warriors who shun the spotlight. in fact the s.e.a.l.s have been buried in an avalanche of publicity, some approved by the commander of the bin laden raid and now the head of this special operations command. for instance the movie "act of valor." >> there are s.e.a.l.s, eight of them active duty s.e.a.l.s one may be out now that participated

what that meant is, we got him, we saw him, it is bin laden. but we had to get our guys out.not sure any of us breathed until we got word they had crossed back into afghanistan. >> the president normally known for his caution had chosen the riskiest course possible and it paid off. >> i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> usa! usa! usa! >> to those on the left who watched how the obama presidency played out, the surprise was his aggressiveness. to those on the right, the surprise was his aggressiveness. they kept thinking he was a community organizer from chicago who had no concept of how to use american power. >> since then, president obama has pulled troops from iraq. created a plan to leave afghanistan. and drastically expanded the use of armed drones to target terrorists. >> he may be known as the drone president. the president who relied on technology to do the business of troops. >> my most sacred duty as president and commander in chief is to keep th

in emails two admirals used code words to describe bin laden.he commander said fedex delivered the package. both trucks are safely en route. temp males heavily redacted have been released by the defense department. a few days earlier that strike group commander had asked another officer do i need any special religious certificate remonth niall preparations. after bin laden's burial at sea an admiral describes the scene. traditional procedures were followed. his body was washed and placed in a white sheet. the body was placed in a weighted bag. a military officer read prepared religious remarks which were translated in to arabic by a native speaker. after the words were complete the body was placed on a prepared flat board, tipped up, where upon the deceased's body slid into the sea. according to the emails there aren't many witnesses. in response to the question any sailors watched the burial the heading of one e-mail says burial no sailors watched and another says only a small group of the leadership was informed. less than as to total. another

. >> one of the biggest moments in the obama presidency, taking down osama bin laden. harvey, how are you? >> nice to see you, piers. >> i know you're in hollywood. i watched your movie over the weekend and found it entertaining. and quiet overtly political in the most magnificent propaganda style way. you did this clearly to remind everybody that is about to vote what a hero barack obama is, right? >> i didn't have to do anything to remind anybody about the decision that barack obama made to pull the trigger on osama bin laden. so amazing to listen to john mccain, because he and mitt romney were both against going into pakistan to kill osama bin laden. when they say that al qaeda hasn't been weakened by killing osama bin laden, you know, i don't understand what alternate universe they're living on. and the clip of mitt romney, which was in the film was cut on national geographic, which did record ratings last night. but now this movie is on netflix and you can see it with the clip that you just showed on the air. >> tell me about your view of the election, harvey. lot

navy admirals use code words to describe bin laden.ander says fed ex delivered the package, both trucks are safely on route home base. the e-mails heavily redakted have just been released by the defense department responding to a freedom of information act washdog. a few days earlier that strike dog asked do i need any special religious ceremonial preparations. after bin laden's buried at sea, an admiral describes the scene. tradition traditional procedures for islamic burial was followed. the deceased body was washed then placed in a white sheet then a military officer read prepared religious remarks which were translated into arabic. tipped up whereupon the deceased body slid into the sea. according to e-mails, there aren't many witnesses. in response to the question, any sailors watch the burial, burial, no sailors watched. and another says only a small group of the leadership was informed. less than a dozen total. and another indication of the secrecy of that part of the mission, an e-mail from a top admiral to joint chiefs chairma

we salute the president for calling the order to get rid of osama bin laden. and we give him credit for that. but the idea that somehow we no longer have an issue with islamic jihadism is naive . they will be alive as long as someone can carry the torch and there are many to do it. earlier this week the president took time out to address how the government is guessing to address the devination of hurricane sandy. >> we'll not tolerate red tape or bureaucracy. we go through tough times and we bounce back. the reason we bounce back is because we look out for one another and don't leave anybody behind. >> that's the way it is supposed to be. you might have hard time convincing folks in staten island and folks on it is new jersey shore no one is left behind. some of them haven't seen food, water or electricity or gasoline or fuel for the home in freezing conditions since the initial hit of hurricane sandy. they are not the only ones that feel left behind. some of those folks in the consulate in benghazi on the night of the september 11th felt left behind for nine

and what that means is, we got him, we saw him, it is bin laden.ake the day unforgettable? with two times the points on travel, you may find yourself asking why not, a lot. chase sapphire preferred. there's more to enjoy. ♪ ♪ hi dad. many years from now, when the subaru is theirs... hey. you missed a spot. ...i'll look back on this day and laugh. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> my fellow americans. >> saturday, april 30th, 2011. >> mahalo. >> president obama was doing stand-up at the white house correspondents dinner. as halfway around the world, a group of navy s.e.a.l.s was moving into position to target the world's most wanted terrorist. >> some people now suggest that i'm too profess orrial, and i'd like to address that head on. >> if he was anxious, he didn't show it. >> by assigning all of you some reading that will help you draw your own conclusions. >> the planning had started in secret months before. >> he asked each and every one of us in the small group of the national security council what our opinion was. and there was di

the same kind of dynamic bold obama we saw when he went after bin laden.other areas, he's shown a timidity and that's why his critics, even his friends say he should have roughed himself up a bit, been a bit more of that bold obama. >> well, you know, i think the president was bold when he made sure that we got health care coverage passed. i mean, that was a courageous thing to do. democratic presidents across the decades have tried to get that accomplished and they've failed but it was this president who early on in his administration said we're going to do this and he got it done. the passage of the recovery act which has been so important to ohio and other states as well, i mean, there are men and women working in ohio today on infrastructure projects because of the stimulus bill. the so-called recovery act. so the president came to office under the most difficult of economic circumstances. we all understand that. unprecedented. when people criticize the president for the slow growth of the economy, i think they are failing to recognize the abyss that w

navy admirals used code words to describe bin laden.nder of the carrier strike group says, fedex delivered the package, both trucks are safely en route, home base. the e-mails were just released in response to a lawsuit by the group judicial watch. a few days earlier, the question was asked, do i need any spiritual ceremonial preparations? "traditional procedures for islamic burial was followed. the deceased's body was washed and then placed in a white sheet. a military officer read prepared religious remarks which were translated into arabic by a native speaker, after the words were complete, the body was placed on a prepared flat board, tipped up, whereupon the deceased's body slid into the sea. according to the e-mails, there aren't many witnesses. in response to this question, the heading of one e-mail says, burial, no sailors watched. another says, only a small group of the leadership was informed, less than a dozen total. and another indication of the secrecy of that part of the mission, an e-mail from a top admiral to joint chief

on its heels, and keeps bringing up that osama bin laden's death has occurred. but is he telling the truth? is al qaeda really desdecimated? with me is former reagan defense official and frank gaffney, a pleasure to have you with us this evening. >> good evening. good to be with you. >> let's talk about al qaeda, is it decimateed, on the run, on its heels? >> i believe the president is knowingly misleading the american people, putting it gently. lying to them about this -- there's every reason to believe that al qaeda is stronger today than it was when he took office. it certainly is operating with impunity in more places, and is more aggressive as a result, i believe, of his policies. so far from them being on the path to defeat or decimated, as he likes to say, apart from some people in the leadership who clearly have been taken out, the organization and particularly the franchises of the organization, the wanna-bes, those affiliated with it that are now rung, in some cases effectively, countries. for example, the size of france. >> frank, let me ask you this.

>>surgen nuevo detalles sobre el funeral de bin laden, ningun marine observo el sepelio de bin ladenmana en la silla presidencial, pero esto no impidió que introdujera una propuesta para cambiar el nombre de ese país, en lugar de llamarse. >>a paso firme se gana un lugar de respeto en un mundo que ha pertenecido a hombres. es el mundo de las coronelas >>en el mariachi las coronelas este mundo no es de hombres o mujeres, sino por el contrario luchan dia a dia para ganarse el amor y respeto de su público. >>el mariachis las coronelas tiene tres años de haberse formado, y paso a paso se abre camino en un mundo dominado por hombres. >>el ser mariachi y ser mujer ha sido difícil, al comienzo fue muy difícil. >>el mariachi masculino a veces se siente como que no deberiamos estar pisando su territorio >>es mala fortuna porque pues deberiamos compartir, así como ellos tienen oportunidad de ser grandes, nosotras también podemos hacer lo mismo >>estas mujeres sienten que la música de mariachi no solo es cosa de hombres, sino de a quien le guste >>hay algo del mariachi que a uno le gusta, la pa

team six, the raid on osama bin laden." welcome.darn exciting. >> thanks. >> first of all, john, i want to talk about the story that you first wanted to tell when you got this assignment or as you were considering taking it on. >> well, the script came to me from nick shardier who produced "the hard locker." he's french. he's decidedly not political. he just wanted to make a sort of behind the scenes look at not just the raid itself but all the events leading up to it. i honestly turned it down at first because it seemed at that point that it was impossible to get an accurate, factual story with as many conflicting accounts of what was going on. first we heard it was a 45-minute long fire fight, then we heard there were maybe only 21 shots fired. so it was really hard to get a handle on the facts of the raid. >> so as you did your research, were there things that you learned about the raid that night that you didn't know before? >> the most interesting things they learned were all the what ifs. and now of course, after the fact ever

do you like osama bin laden? he said well i quite like him. [laughter] and christopher said, he said osama bin laden is my brother. and they said, he is your brother? and christopher said all men are my brothers. now if you'll you will excuse me, please. [laughter] just right. >> in writing about his illness, what is striking about mortality, many people have written about illness and death and dying, but there is something, there is nothing in the book and there are no false notes and i think the responses i've heard from the people who read this book was one of great sort of, was very affirming and it's a very positive book and is that a book as it is i think the odyssey in it is sort of inspiring to people. what is fascinating to me also when i look at your take on this, is how the writing changes over the course of the book. in the beginning he has the sort of objective look at what is happening and it's clinical in some ways and he's reporting on his illness and as his illness advances in the book moves on, and as his body begins to deter

assigned to come up with arguments why the intelligence that bin laden was hiding in a pakistani compound could be wrong. like the president before, this president knows morell. >> the cia works primarily for the president, and the acting director's ability to function as a director depends to a large degree on the president's confidence in him or her. >> reporter: morell is the eighth cia director in the past seven years. you could almost say cia directors are not indispensable, they're disposable. david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> cbs news has learned president obama will likely nominate u.n. ambassador susan rice to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state. rice may face a tough confirmation process, though. republicans have criticized her response to the september 11th assault in benghazi. rice said it was a spontaneous response to anti-american protests in cairo and not a coordinated attack. >>> congress returns today with an agenda dominated to avoid the so called fiscal cliff, the combination of tax expense increases and spending cuts. president obama meets with top ce

intelligence put the odds at 50/50 that bin laden was even there.n did not succeed, it would be a disaster in political terms to rival desert one, jimmy carter's failed military effort to rescue the iranian hostages in 1980. it would be much safer to launch a drone attack, but also less sure, because we'd never be certain we'd gotten our man. >> i will tell you that there are moments in your presidency, and i think this is true of every president, presidents i admire, presidents i've been critical of, where you really do put politics aside. where you have great clarity about the profound privilege and responsibility of this office. certainly, we thought about the fact that if there was a failure here, it would have disastrous consequences for me politically. we knew the examples of the carter presidency and we understood what happened there. but i tell you, the only thing that i was thinking about throughout this entire enterprise was, i really want to get those guys back home safe. >> there were people who had said, let's not do this. let's wait. l

the bin laden tape in 2004. a big external event imposing itself on the election in a way that distracts the country's attention, i don't think there's many things like this. because there's such a small sample size, do we know how these things are expected to affect an election? >> no, we don't know. the scale is totally different, but think back to 2000 when in the final days of the election you had the dui revelation about george w. bush. if you remember in that campaign, bush had actually been leading in the popular vote poll and had his electoral college problem then he ended up losing the popular vote and winning electoral college. there's a lot of -- the research that's been done has said the dui thing didn't have that much impact. it might have been the kind of thing in the last minute people who had kind of gone along with bush who had reservations about his maturity, maybe it brought that back in the final days. that's the only other one i can think of. no, we've never seen anything like this. >> in te

>> what also happened, bin laden came out with that tape. it reminded voters that no matter how well the framework had been constructed, george bush was responsible for iraq and therefore every problem america had, there were real problems. there were real threats. >> why do you think barack obama killed him? he didn't want a last-minute tape helping another republican. it's a joke, people! it's a joke! >> okay. >> it's a joke! >> the hurricane reminded people that president obama was not responsible for every problem. >> steve did make a point that there is a lot of separation and fatigue with the president, a lot of anxiety about the economy and where we're going. >> you want to do this story? >> i do, actually. >> do you really? >> is that okay? >> i guess so. >> okay. it's out now. >> seriously. you want to do the story. >> i do. >> okay, go ahead. >> you could have asked me more quietly. we've been talking about -- >> if it makes you feel good the day before the election. go ahead. >> what? what? >> are we on the air, actually? >> yes,