jack layton. [cheering] >> we will be hearing from jack layton in a few minutes' time.out her husband now. >> emission for canada. jack has always been my inspiration and always will be. [cheering] >> when i was first elected as the member of parliament -- >> alright, we are switching from bolivia to the leader of the opposition at least for one more night michael ignatieff and his wife speaking to their supporters at a difficult life traveling badly and the own party dillinger 33 seats right now and the party in canada and the last time we looked at measure of the vote was under 20%. so what does he say? let's listen in. [applause] >> good evening, friends, members of this great and property. i want to first of all of her my open-heart congratulations to the prime minister stephen carper and my congratulations also to the new leader of the official opposition jack layton, offered to him on behalf of my party sincere congratulations to opponents. [speaking french] >> translator: but also like to offer primm minister carper and layton my most sincere congratulations for

air force colonel cedric layton has 26 years of experience as an intelligence officer. thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure, shawn. >> we know bin laud 18 death reignited the debate about how long the 100 u.s. troops should rea 19 -- 100,000 troops should remain in afghanistan. how long do you think they should stay there? >> well, i think the big problem is that if you move into a place like this, you own it. and it's what collin powell h when you break it, you own it, when it came to iraq. afghanistan is a complicated place and the big problem with afghanistan is that we need to make sure that we can at least have a viable government that keeps the taliban from re- emerges in that country. if it does, that it emerges in a fashion that is more conducive to u.s. interests. >> and talk about the taliban. there are recent reports that say the taliban is dismantled or not. there are certainly far less there and al qaeda, certainly far less in afghanistan. so, lawmakers are saying we can better spend the money we're using to fund the war at home and bringing troops home

commandos is involved in the rate on been laytons compound in. >> the white house says the president's visit was not about spiking the ball or gloating but rather to acknowledge a job well done. the president met privately with the navy seals and special operations sources that took down the world's most wanted terrorists. >> hello fort campbell. >> he addressed a hanger collector is calling the raid on the compound and historical event was dressing up like those on. >> thanks to the incredible skill and courage of countless individuals, intelligence, military, over many years, the terrorist leade restore arab nation on 09/11 will never threaten america again. >> al qaeda warned that american habit as will turn sadness and their blood will be mangled with their tears. u.s. officials are trying to verify authenticity of those comments on the internet. documents seized from the compound reveal its plans to attack trains in the u.s. on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. rail lines have been put on notice and amtrak says it is fully staffed its canine team and specially trained teams of all maj

intelligence services are facing mounting criticism at home and abroad, questions about the raid, how bad layton could hide out for years close to a major military base. officials have admitted that shortcomings have been made it and have launched an investigation. >>> u.s. president barack obama paid a symbolic visit to new york city to honor those killed and injured in the september 11 attacks. he held a moment of silence after laying a wreath at ground zero, visiting a fire station near the world trade center, meeting with family of the victims of the attacks which killed nearly 3000 people. it is his first visit to ground zero as president, organized after the raid that killed osama bin laden pe. joining us from washington, max hoffman. just days after the killing of osama bin laden, the u.s. president is at ground zero. what is behind the visit? >> it brings america c cser to what they have been talking about all week, closure. they want to turn the page and move on. it is very important for them to have their president there today. closure was not achievable with the mastermind of 9/11 bei

pressure on the pakistani government which is already trying to explain to an angry washington how been layton could have lived for years in a garrison town -- angry washington who is angry at how osama bin laden could have lived for years in a garrison town. our first report looks at the politica fallout from the killing of osama bin laden. >> osama bin laden was killed behind these walls. it's compound has turned into a key tourist attraction -- his compound has turned into a key tourist attraction. it is still not clear what happened on the top floor. instead of facts, plenty of questions remain, and that has unleashed a lot of speculation. was the world's most wante terrist executed in his bedroom, or did u.s. president barack obama and his clost advisers watched a failed attempt to take him into custody? many analysts are convinced the was planned to kill bin laden anyway. >> based on everything we know, the u.s. issued a shoot-to-kill order. the americans did not want to take the risk of bringing h h to court. which court would be, the international court of justice in the hague would be

jack layton's history is managing to make change and get things done.st all odds. we have a clear set of goals that we want to achieve. we are going to find every avenue we can to move forward with those goals. >> thank you. we will be watching with interest. the collapse of the liberal party on monday's election is still being discussed. how did the party lose 43 seats? what went wrong? what will become of the party and its popular vote? who will take over as leader after michael ignatieff stepped down yesterday. during the now is carolyn bennett. she saw many --joining me now is carolyn bennett. sheets of many fellow liberals go down in defeat. i will ask you a question you ask yourself and many have asked you. what happened on monday night? what cost you so many seeds and your bid for government? >> the main thing was the orange crush. it ate into what many liberals needed in order to win. in a lot of our writings, there is a conservative core of 30%. when the liberals pulled out, you got beaten from the left as well. we lost a lot of good members of

i'm a republican and many of these people -- will we have the birther movement denying osama bin layton's death? we are heading toward a diagnosis of rabies in the republican party. my party is being taken over by copperheads. osama bin laden was not saddam hussein and had nowhere to go. they called osama bin laden a needle in a stack. let's get this straight -- we had osama bin laden and the mountains between the cover pass and pakistan. the special forces wanted to go in. the past administration with a rumsfeld said we will use a taliban to help. we did not realize that the taliban was in cahoots with these people all along. he slips into pakistan and this bill -- house was built in 2005. how could we not give the current president his do? due? think he is spot on. there is this conspiracy theory that is no longer simply on the fringe elements of our country and society but coming into the mainstream that flat receipt -- refuses to accept what is fact. the birth certificate issue is one and that osama bin laden issue is another. it is a deep rooted sense of disbelief and sense of refusa

is there any person in this world who believes that with some of the layton was living in that place for that long and nobody in the pakistani dormant new it? it is an absurdity. i think we need to have a very thorough reappraisal of what our policies are and what we're trying to accomplish. let me close -- you know that long before she became a important statewide figure, she was the chairman teachers advisory group in the sixth district of georgia. we go back a fair distance. [cheers and applause] let me just say candidly, when i first ran in 1974, it was the middle of watergate. people said i could not win and it turned out they were right. [laughter] but i got 48.5%. i came back and ran in 1976 and jimmy carter was running for president as a democrat and had a huge turnout. and people said i could not win. there were right. i got 43.9%. i came back and finally won in 1978. it relates directly to how i hope our presidential campaign will work. if we had not had the south fulton republican women opening the office, we would not have been able to campaign. if we had not had the spal

is there any person in this world who believes that with some of the layton was living in that placeor that long and nobody in the pakistani dormant -- government new it? it is an absurdity. i think we need to have a very thorough reappraisal of what our policies are and what we're trying to accomplish. let me close -- you know that long before she became a important statewide figure, she was the chairman teachers advisory group in the sixth district of georgia. we go back a fair distance. [cheers and applause] let me just say candidly, when i first ran in 1974, it was the middle of watergate. people said i could not win and it turned out they were right. [laughter] but i got 48.5%. i came back and ran in 1976 and jimmy carter was running for president as a democrat and had a huge turnout. and people said i could not win. there were right. -- they were right. i got 43.9%. i came back and finally won in 1978. it relates directly to how i hope our presidential campaign will work. if we had not had the south fulton republican women opening the office, we would not have been able to camp

maybe this time around, it will be jack layton. is nothing learned? is this a new style of politics ? remembe >> it was not just that the liberals were being attacked. they never responded. they probably did not have the money to respond. 47 years, the airwaves were packed with ads saying that he loved america more than canada and was an elitist. you never really heard anything from him until the election. -- for years, you heard those things. they have to respond right away. >> i agree. it was like somebody was trying to fight a tank with a flame thrower. you cannot win the war like that. you have to put your best efforts into fighting those kinds of tactics . >> you seem to be suggesting getting back in the trenches to sell the party. >> the liberals got away from that. they seem to understand the need to do that. >> the years of touring did not work? >> if he had done that in the first year, it may have had a bigger impact. by the time he did that, he had already been defined by the conservatives. >> there is a lot to watch. we still do not have th

we don't write anybody off because of their party strake and i know certainly jack layton's history isnaging to make change and get things in particular in ontario sora does needed in order order to win. so in a lot of fire writings, there is a conservative core of about 30% and when the liberal sword of plurality gets eaten from the left as well, we lost a lot of good members of parliament. >> what does that mean? and orange wave in popularity, what does that mean? as you know, all those go down to defeat. what does that mean about the party's message? how do you differentiate two parties of the opposition won from the other? which you take from that? >> it wasn't as much a message that i think we had a really good platform that appeals to a lot of traditional mvp strategic voters. i think i later performed extremely well, but i think with the excitement around the rise of the nep and supporters decided it would be okay for them to vote ndp this time. i think particularly glenn pearson munden felt that it is that a lot of calls from people saying my word, we thought you'd be okay even