>> we have mike emanuel live.you got drafted on short notice but what do you know about what we are about to hear from the president of the united states? >> not a lot at this point. we understand from the policy related matter there is great speculation it has something to do with libya. senior white house core spon departments say it's big. whu the president of the united states calling reporters to make a comment at 10:30 on is sunday evening that is a most unusual situation for any white house. at this point they are setting up we expect to see the president momentarily. it is not clear whether it will be about qaddafi or some other foreign policy matter. >> it is a crazy world. in mike in your long experience have you ever lived through an announcement like this reported on an announcement like this on a sunday night on such short notice, mike? >> not at all, geraldo. when i heard 10:30 statement i thought it was going to be 10:30 tomorrow morning and then it was 10:30 207b9. they were not going to give away

white house correspondent mike emanuel joins us live. what do we expect to hear in this briefing. >> reporter: my understanding is president obama said it himself that he's not going to release a bin laden photo telling 60 minutes steve croft who he taped an interview today that he would not go forward witness. i can tell you from talking to senior officials here they've been worried about a backlash. we have hundreds of thousands of troops all over the world. we have american diplomats serving in difficult places. so far after the usama bin laden killing we have not seen a huge backlash. there is great concern whether you aggravate the situation and make the situation explosive that is currently not explosive. we live in a world where photo leaks out this is a wikileaks era whether you like it or not. some argue they will eventually get out, why not release them now. i was told jay carney is not talking to people before the briefing. he is making final preparations before the briefing. there will be questions pro and con about the relea

let's go down to the white house press briefing room, mike emanuel is standing by there. he'll have to sit down any minute. mike, tell us, what do we expect we are going to get today. >> reporter: we expect there will be plenty of questions about the still photos that were taken of bin laden's body after he was killed. we understand there were two sets one taken in a hang tpwar that most resembles him. any time someone gets shot in the head the photos are not pretty. the question is will they release photographic evidence showing he is indeed dead. the second set of photos were taken from the uss carl vincent. but do not represent him as closely as the initial photos did. the question for the white house has been, what's the risk there? if you release the photos is there a violent reaction around the world somewhere? and so among the many issues they are weighing as to whether they should release photos, but we can tell you they've been getting bombarded with questions about the photos off camera, we expect that to continue on camera also more questions about whether paki

mike emanuel is with me live from the white house with the very latest on this. when a day this has been, mike. >> reporter: no question about that. we expect to hear from members of president obama's national team as they come into the brady room. there are questions at this hour, though, about the pakistanis because all indications are osama bin laden was living a pretty comfortable life not far from the pakistani capitol of islamabad. a senate arm's service chairman carl levin says the pack san he's have explaining to do. >> i think the pakistani army and intelligence have a lot of questions to answer. , given the location, the length of time and the apparent fact that this was -- this facility was actually built for osama bin laden, and it's closeness to the central location of the pakistani army. >> reporter: we are hearing from senior u.s. officials that our counterterrorism partners, namely the pakistanis were not notified that this raid was going down. so there are a lot of questions about how much trust the u.s. can put in pakistan after he was living in

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