martin katie is politico's washington bureau chief and joins us now from politico. see the two sides coming together after last night's dinner where everyone was joining hands. >> yeah. that lasted -- that didn't last very long, did it? >> not at all, martin. where do you see the real fraught lines now, on health care, on the budget, the larger budget issues, on the oil subsidy repeals? >> i think it is going to be on the budget, the debt limit, deficit reduction. the republicans are holding fast on the debt limit. they're not ready to roll out their plan. some democrats still want a straightup vote. but as you mentioned, in the beginning, last night there was innovation for the president. this morning, they're going right back to their domestic agenda, back to partisan warfare. people wonder why congress has such low approval ratings. it sometimes is this sort of thing. can't seem to latch on to it as an institution, to this national moment for more than a 24-hour news cycle. >> do you think there is a way that the white house can try to gain some advantage, politi

katie? >> couric: david martin at the pentagon. david, thanks so much. now to chip reid at the white house. chip, they have to be very pleased with how this turned out. can you tell us about the extensive planning that went into this operation? >> reporter: well, absolutely, katie. they've been planing this operation for more than eight months. countless meetings here at the white house, dozens and dozens of hours of surveillance over in pakistan and, of course, the navy seals had to rehearse the mission over and over again. but in the end it came down to a period of just 40 minutes when it could either be a major success or a disastrous failure. to give you an idea of how thick the tension was in the situation room at the white house, take a look at this photo. during those 40 minutes, they were actually watching it unfold in realtime. take a look at the president's eyes. look at hillary clinton covering her mouth. john brennan, the president's top counterterrorism advisor, says it was one of the most anxiety-filled periods of time that anyone in that r

katie. >> couric: david martin at the pentagon, thank you. the pakistan's ambassador to the u.s. said the governor erred by not knowing or allowing bin laden to hide for years in plain sight. >> what i'm told is we just dropped the ball. and there is going to be an inquiry of sorts. there will be a-- we will get to the bottom of it. how did it happen? but the most important concern here right now is to reassure people in the united states that pakistan and pakistanis as a nation did not look upon osama bin laden favorably, and that's very important. >> couric: today, pakistani authorities reportedly hauled in for questioning the contractor who built bin laden's home. outside the compound, the crowds keep coming, not to protest, just to look. elizabeth palmer is there. >> reporter: as hundreds of sightseers dreamed by abbottabad's new infamous tourist attraction, local people shared what they could about their reclusive neighbors, and it wasn't much. zain mohammed lives with his extended family. ironically, zain, who has neither tv nor electricity, has never even seen a picture of

katie? >> couric: david martin, thank you. now to libya for the second time this week, muammar qaddafi went on the air to prove he survived recent attacks there. in an audio recording played on television today, he taunted nato, claiming he's "in a place where you can't get me." earlier, libyan tv showed a bombed out house in the eastern city of brega, apparently struck by coalition war planes. the libyan government claims 11 civilians were killed. nato insists it only targets military installations. meanwhile here at home the mississippi river is rising to record levels. and it's threatening to cause even more flooding in the days to come, as the river crests in major cities and small towns. dean reynolds is in vidalia, louisiana. dean, do authorities there think they have come up with a solution? >> they certainly hope so, katie. the governor of louisiana said today they are going to open the flood gates at the spillway at morganza tomorrow, first time they have done that since 1973. and a critical step in fighting this floo

katie? >> couric: david martin at the pentagon tonight. david, thank you. as we've reported, the seals took computer files, flash drives, d.v.d.s and documents from the compound. they show bin laden desperately wanted another 9/11 and was again targeting major american cities. more on that from bob orr. >> reporter: the world never saw osama bin laden after this videotaped appearance in september, 2007, but documents grabbed from his compound reveal to the very end bin laden was still at the core of al qaeda's operations and dreaming of new attacks against america. cbs news has learned that memos recovered from bin laden's lair show the al qaeda leader was thinking big. the memos referenced potential attacks against major american cities: new york, washington, chicago and los angeles. sources say the writing suggests striking on important specific dates: july 4, september 11 and new year's. that's interesting to analysts because it may suggest a subtle shift in terror planning. historically, al qaeda has attacked when it's ready, not necessarily on holidays

if it had ever come to that, katie, an already rocky relationship with pakistan would have been ruined. >> couric: david martin at the pentagon tonight. thank you, david. as you may recall, a traced cell phone call provided the big break in the hunt for bin laden. but that same technology could also be used to track anyone through a smart phone. today, officials from two of the leading smart phone companies went before congress and denied they spy on their customers. here's congressional correspondent nancy cordes. >> reporter: executives from apple and google insisted today that the data they gather on their customers' whereabouts is only used to speed up service. >> apple does not track users' locations. apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so. >> reporter: a pair of researchers recently discovered that apple's iphone stores information on every move its user makes for up to a year and it's not encrypted to anyone who gets ahold of your phone can see where you've been-- a glitch apple says it is fixing. >> does this data indicate anything about your location or doesn't it? >> it's completely a

david martin is at the pentagon tonight and, david, based on what the president knew and didn't know, this was a very big gamble. >> couric: katie the more you find out about this mission, the more you realize what a roll of the dice it was and how close it came to disaster. after months of studying satellite photos of the compound, c.i.a. analysts concluded there was only a 60% to 80% chance bin laden was really there. in the photos, a man could be seen coming out of the main building and walking around the courtyard as if for exercise. but it was impossible to tell whether he matched bin laden's height. photo interpreters analyzed the pattern of daily life and determined the family in the main building had the same number of members as bin laden's family. none of them ever left the fortress-like compound. it was hardly a smoking gun-- which explains these words by president obama's counterterrorism advisor. >> the president had to evaluate the strength of the information and then made what i believe was one of the most gustiest calls of any president in recent memory. >> reporter: and explains the tension on the faces of the p

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jill martin is a "today" "us weekly" contributor and joy becauser is a registered dietician. good morning, ladies. we get to see what they do. they work hard. katyost here. she's on tour in japan. and jill, she's working out extra hard to keep her curves in shape, right? >> it's funny. when she was younger she used to say how do i hide this curvy figure. now she embraces it. on tour, she's dancing so she burns about a thousand calories when on staj. when she's not. she worked with holy five days a week for at least 25 minutes. it concentrates on certain parts of her body. >> she starts her day with a protein-rich breakfast, specifically egg whites. we know if you eat ample protein in the morning it regulates your app deed and keeps your exercised an focused. she likes to make a beets and arugula salad. it's good for your skin, and she's validating that. >> a double-double in and out burger. it's two burgers stacked up. she also loves chicken mcnuggets. >> make sure you get yourself to the gym. >> next we have supermodel gisele who has a 17 maryland and after two weeks looked just like she did prebaby. >> she said when she was younger, everyone c