named robert o'neil on the mission, but they don't know if o'neil fired the kill shot.ergen acknowledges the scene was confusing. >> it was a night with no moon, no electricity in the house. it was a helicopter had crashed. there were two or three fire fights. these guys were wearing night vision goggles, and the whole event of killing bin laden, my guess, took place in ten seconds. >> the head of the s.e.a.l. command sent a letter in recent days reminding s.e.a.l.s not to break their code of silence, warning of, quote, judicial consequence if they do. former s.e.a.l. john mcgwire says neither o'neil or bissonnette should have spoken about the raid. >> everybody wants to know how we do things. our enemy wants to know more than we do. we have to protect future missions and other americans' lives. >> we tried to reach robert o'neil directly and through his representatives, we could not get him to comment. he told the washington post the s.e.a.l.s expected that bin laden compound to be heavily guarded and booby trapped and said this was the first mission where he thought h

o'neill is a decorated former s.e.a.l. from montana, who now works as a motivational speak per >> my name's robert o'neill. i was a navy s.e.a.l. for almost 17 years. >> reporter: o'neill told "the washington post" he fired a shot which struck bin laden in the forehead. "he died instantly, his skull split by the first bullet." sources in team six, the unit which conducted the bin laden raid tell bergen another s.e.a.l. shot the shot. >> most of the people in the community say that the night bin laden killed somebody called the point man who is never going to identify himself publicly was the guy who took the first shot at bin laden and winged him and bin laden collapsed on the ground in his bedroom finished off by two other s.e.a.l.s. >> reporter: those two s.e.a.l.s, robert o'neill and matt bisonette. barbara starr was told there was a s.e.a.l. named robert o'neill on the mission but they don't know if he fired the kill shot. >> it was a night with no moon, no electricity in the house, it was a helicopter had crashed, the

o'neill is a decorated former s.e.a.l. from montana who now works as a decorated speaker. >> my name is robert o'neill. i was a navy s.e.a.l. for almost 17 years. >> reporter: o'neill told "the washington post" he fired a shot that struck bin laden in the forehead. the terrorist leader died instantly, he says, his skull split by the first bullet. but sources in s.e.a.l. team 6, the unit which conducted the bin laden raid, tell peter bergen another s.e.a.l. fired the fatal shot from the area of the stairs leading to bin laden's floor, as bin laden peered out the door of his bedroom. >> most of the people in the s.e.a.l. community i've spoken to say that the night that bin laden was killed, somebody called the point man, who is never going to identify himself publicly was the guy who took the first shot at bin laden and winged him. and then bin laden collapsed on the ground in his bedroom and he was finished off by two other s.e.a.l.s. >> reporter: those two s.e.a.l.s according to bergen's sources robert o'neill and matt bis

an o'neill and bisonette problem. these individuals have gone out and taken the knowledge that they are trusted with and exposed this and perception is reality and it's had an effect on the way that the public looks at us and that is wrong because the s.e.a.l. community, as you know, you know many of us, it's a brotherhood, a tight group, and very professional. they take their job very seriously. and this is not a good light to be shone on us. >> do you believe, al qaeda, affiliates, isis, anybody out there would basically went to seek revenge against this particular man? >> you know, i'm scratching my head, to think of an example of an assassination attempt by al qaeda against in this country against anyone. you know, i don't think they really have the capacity to do this kind of thing. maybe somebody radicalized on the internet that might try to seek this guy out but that's a little bit different. i don't think al qaeda has the capacity. >> in terms of a target for deranged people out there or people who want to mak

at this point, what is their opinion of o'neil? >> i think their opinion is there were 21 other guys that night, but none of them have come forward. i'm going to slightly disagree with jonathan. at the end of the day, we spent billions of dollars on operations as american taxpayers. when we have a big event, there's nothing wrong with the public finding out some details about it. when panetta wrote his book, it was cleared by the agency. they scrubbed it for anything that was classified or might affect national security. the others are going outside the normal channels. they haven't cleared their, comments with the department of defense. that's important. the idea that we should shut up about anything to do with the operation, we live in a free society. we pay a lot of money for it and we live in an information age. people were live tweeting the raid. the idea we are not going to say anything about it is inplausible. >> can i say something? i don't disagree with you. i will say national security secrets are there to protect the pub

i don't put this on o'neill. i put this on a white house that ran like giddy school children to "new york times" to give away every single detail they could about the mission to make themselves look good. a vice president who did just that. across the board ringing the bell about the nature of this mission. the last person to tell his story was rob o'neill was the s.e.a.l. who pulled the trigger. i can understand why they stepped back and say the american people deserve to know why we did what we did without divulging details. he didn't divulge details, others may have. he did not. this is not on him. it's on a culture in the white house and pentagon that's devolved a lot of this behind the scenes. >> what do you make of the fellow navy s.e.a.l.s. and they talk about how no one individual is supposed to take credit. you know, they sort of have this band of brotherhood that stays quiet about their missions. and as one of their leaders said, they said it's a lifelong commitment. they said violators of this ethos ar

robert o'neill, welcome. thank you for joining me and thank you for your service. >> you're welcome, and thank you for having me, mr. tapper. it's good to be here. >> please call me jake, come on. let's start with the moment that you realized this mission was to get bin laden. what was that like? >> it was just odd the way they called us back from training cycles to tell us something. and at first, it was more of a we found a thing in a country, and we asked what's the thing, what's the country? they wouldn't tell us. we figured it would have been moammar gadhafi in libya, because that was the time of the arab spring, and we figured they wanted us to go get him, so we started training, well, not training, but getting our gear prepared for that sort of environment. we were briefed more and more. they told us they would give us the brief in a couple days and we asked who was going to be at the brief or the read-in, as they called it. and just some of the names they mentioned didn't make sense for that part of t

o'neill and why?thinking that he was going to die. then he kept his composure. all the navy seals kept their composure, then they survived, and then he came back and just went about his business just like -- knowing and keeping this big secret for so long until now. he sat on the fact that he was the guy who killed the world's most wanted man for years until now. >> we heard it this week in your special. peter, people in the building are describing this as the best program ever produced by fox news. so congratulations. i'm a little biased 'cause i'm your dad, but you did a hell of a job. >> thank you. we had a really, really good small team working on this. we had jonathan lee, dan cohen and adam harken, editor, who we basically unplugged and he sat up there for months working on this. >> editing it by himself. >> yeah. he laid it all together. >> all four of you are talented individuals. we know all four of you. >> the crew was great, too. the shots in montana and that whole thing, i talked about thi

it's been an avalanche of positives and support for rob o'neill. i spoke to somebody that knows rob who was in the military at the same time as rob, and said that they watched last night and they wanted to shake his hand. afterwards. and so, it is all -- it is overwhelmingly good for rob today after part one. >> have you talked to him since it aired? >> i have spoken to him. he is taking it all in. >> no regrets for having decided to make the decision to talk then? >> if he has some, he hasn't told me. >> a question? >> i have two quick questions. deever change his mind during this? it is a high profile thing. a lot of risk. i'm sure a lot of risk to not only himself, his family. did he ever want to pull out of the deal before it aired? >> no. once we started, once we sat him down and we did the interview, it was all systems go. we did it in the summer. as our team upstairs on the 18th floor worked on it, he has been anxious to see it. >> after part one aired today, cnn is saying oh, the guy who claims to have killed osama bin laden. now i happened

o'neill. >> what is your thought on it?i come out of that special ops community and rob and i talked before the show here. we know he is getting a lot of criticism. when i was asked to come on the show. i have to talk about what a good job he did. but i need to say we don't want to talk that much. i was totally wrong. after watching two hours of this special and thinking on it, he did what he had to do. i have to agree. it brings closure to the families and to america and he did the right thing. the community is going to be upset but i hope there are people out there that realize what it is that he's done. the good that he has down. >> show of hands. did this help you in any way? anybody it didn't help? it did help all of you. >> the killing? >> and the telling of the story? >> that night, i was on a train and i heard right away. and the first thing i did, which to this day i'm still shocked, i started crying. i started crying on the train. people were looking at me. it's that powerful. you're waiting -- again we don't have

there were a couple snipers and a medic and i was going to be the team leader outside. >> but o'neils he talked his way into a different spot so he would have a shot at the leader of al-qaeda. some question how robert o'neil can claim to have killed bin laden when various accounts of described two other people opening fire. o'neil's story to the washington post described bin laden clearly killed by a shot to the head, but another version from sources in seal team 6 describes a point man first winging bin laden before multiple seals finished him off. now working as a motivational speaker, o'neil is not the only one to talk about the raid without getting clearance. former seal published add memoir under a different name. the department of deference says the book violates his nondisclosure agreement. i'm andrew spencer reporting. >> last year, an anonymous o'neil gave his interview telling how the events of that night led to his early retirement from the seals. thank you for watching wusa9 news at 5:00. wusa9 news at 6:00 starts right now. >> department of justice civil rights investiga

. >> o'neil is an 18-month-old yellow labrador who is near the end of his training cycle. >> come.very motivated to do the work and very happy to do what the trainer, danielle, would ask him. >> the instructor, danielle alvarado, fell for his personality from the moment he began working with him. >> o'neil, forward. he has such a good work ethic, and he loves to train. >> reporter: danielle has been training o'neil for eight weeks on the day they lead to downtown san rafael for his final guide work test. it's late morning, and danielle, todd, and o'neil are walking up 4th street at the end of the route. danielle is playing the role of the client, wearing a blindfold, while todd spots her. security cameras on the local buildings are recording them. >> my big job was to assess o'neil in his guide work. and danielle's job was to work him under blindfold and make sure he's doing all the fundamentals that need to be completed. >> there's no way they were ready for what happened next. >> i heard this pop, the breaking of the glass of a window behind me. and i just see this car -- >> a ca

. >> joining us now is the navy seal retired navy veal rob o'neil. we have a studio audience today. >> great honor to meet you. >> peter doocy is also with us. i have to tell you i think this was one of the best specials i watched. to hear your story inspired me and as i was sitting here thinking about this opportunity that we are going to have with you tonight, i can hear this story over and over again. walk us through, let's start, the training. you get the call. walk us through that process again. >> we were told about a mission we were going to do it wasn't training it was a different cycle for us. we have people that were prepared for a cycle but for some reason they pulled a group of people together. they confirmed what seal team 6 said we are as close as we have ever been to osama bin laden. >> how long into the training was that? >> this was about two-days from the time they told us until then. >> there was none of the cheering and slap -- clapping. >> they trained for about ten-days total we left four overseas so we could look forward to flo

o'neill sails the pointman either missed or just wounded bin laden. that s.e.a.l., the pointman, has yet to tell his story. david? >> all right, martha raddatz in washington tonight. martha, thank you. >>> overseas tonight, and to some telling images out of china. all eyes on president obama and russian president vladimir putin. their facial expressions, and now their body language under scrutiny. take a look. president putin putting his hand on president obama's shoulder. but even more controversial, when putin offered a shawl to china's first lady. why was that so controversial? abc white house correspondent jim avila traveling with the president. >> reporter: it was a moment of chivalry turned instantly awkward. the recently divorced, macho leader from russia, placing that shawl over the chilly shoulders of the first lady of china. within seconds aides replacing it with a coat. but the damage is done. some suggesting putin getting a little too cozy with the first lady. within hours, chinese sensors all but erased the uncomfortable images from the i

named robert o'neill on that mission, but they don't know if o'neill fired the kill shot. bergen acknowledges the scene was confusing. >> it was a night with no moon, there was no electricity in the house. a helicopter had crashed. there were two othree fire fights. these guys were wearing night vision goggles. and the whole event of killing bin laden, my guess, took place in ten seconds. >> the head of the s.e.a.l. command sent a letter in recent days reminding s.e.a.l.s.s not to break their code of silence. former s.e.a.l. john mcguire says neither o'neill or bissonette should have spoken about the raid. >> everyone wants to know how special forces do things. our enemy wants to know more than we do. >> we tried to reach robert o'neill directly and through his representatives. we could not get him to comment. o'neill told "the washington post" the s.e.a.l.s expected the bin laden compound to be heavily guarded and bobby trapped and said this was the first mission where he thought he would likely be killed. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> the drummer of the legendary rock

rob o'neill. we have a studio audience here today. [ applause ] great honor to meet you. >> thank you for having me. >> peter doocy's also with us. i got to say, i think this is one of the best specials i've watched. to hear your story inspired me. and as i was sitting here thinking about this opportunity we're going to have with you tonight, i can hear this story over and over again. walk us through. let's start the training. you get the call. and walk us through that process again. >> we were told about a mission that we were going to go do that it wasn't training, it was a different cycle for us. we normally had people on -- that were prepared for a cycle like this, but for some reason they pulled a group of us together. they told us vaguely about what's going to happen. we eventually figured it out, they did confirm the way it was told to us the commanding officer of s.e.a.l. team six said we're as close as we've ever been to usama bin laden. >> and how long into this training was that? >> thi

rob o'neill describing the moments on that fateful day in 2011.oining us family members and first responders and much more. there is controversy over whether or not he should have spoken. peter johnson jr., presidents write books, gates wrote a book, leon panetta wrote a book. why can't we hear from the people actually there tell the story? >> well, president obama took credit for this story, so why can't this man and other members of s.e.a.l. team 6 take credit for this killing? i think we have to understand that the d.o.d. and the department of justice goes after mr. o'neill they'll have to reckon with the entire american people. we need restorative justice. we got it. and we heard about how it was done. it restores our confidence in who we are as a people. and it says to my daughter who's 8 years old when this happened, the night after she said to me, will we get this man? when will this bad man be taken away? and i said he will, blanch. i don't know when. we do know how and when. and that helps us as americans. so i don't believe they're going

why is rob o'neill now coming forward for you?se listening to other speakers how complicated a decision this is for him because he's a family man. he's someone who is concerned about his safety. it's more than two years now since the first book about the raid came out. he was looking at a situation where he was going to be revealed sooner or later because people were talking about his involvement in the raid. it was his attempt to try to hang onto some credibility and some piece of this bit of history and try to get the story right. you can sympathize for the person wrestling with a decision like that. >> before we get to some of the details, let me follow-up on one more point related to all this. how does he respond to some members of the s.e.a.l. community saying that's not how it happened and also to the bull's eye on his back from jihadists? >> on the discrepancies in the story, there actually aren't that many. he was -- everybody acknowledges there was a point man who takes a shot. it appears that first shot did not hit bin l

now robert o'neill is under criticism. how he can claim to fire the kill shot when two others fired their weapons. some fault o'neill for taking attention. >> he is sacrificed a lot in doing this. whether he is the real shoot err er or not, he put a bull's-eye on his back. >> you are talking about an actual bull's-eye from jihadists. >> his family and himself. he is on the speaking lecture circuit. anybody who goes to see this guy is a target. >> o'neill wants to acknowledge his part in killing osama bin laden after being outed by a military blog this week. >>> time for an early start on your money. the dow and s&p 500, record highs yesterday. the big word on wall street today, j-o-b-s. the government releases the october jobs report at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. and information about the home depot security breach. now 53 million customer e-mail addresses were taken during the hack. that is in addition to the 56 million debit and credit card numbers. hackers got into the system by stealing a third party name where it took yo

rob o'neill describing the moments on that fateful day in 2011. joining us family members and first responders and much more. there is controversy over whether or not he should have spoken. peter johnson jr., presidents write books, gates wrote a book, leon panetta wrote a book. why can't we hear from the people actually there tell the story? >> well, president obama took credit for this story, so why can't this man and other members of s.e.a.l. team 6 take credit for this killing? i think we have to understand that the d.o.d. and the department of justice goes after mr. o'neill they'll have to reckon with the entire american people. we need restorative justice. we got it. and we heard about how it was done. it restores our confidence in who we are as a people. and it says to my daughter who's 8 years old when this happened, the night after she said to me, will we get this man? when will this bad man be taken away? and i said he will, blanch. i don't know when. we do know how and when. and that helps us as americans. so i don't believe they're goi

now you're talking about o'neill.e books and revealed the details. o'neill has always been very careful not to fall into that trap and avoid details of the operation. >> right. correct. and o'neill's father was quoted in the "daily mail" saying he's not worried about the potential threat in if quote we were saying. he says that people are asking if we're worried that isis will come and get us because rob is going public. i say it will paint a big target on my front -- i'll paint a big target on my front door and say come and get us. those are strong again words from his father as well regarding his son's safety. >> that's always been one of the big concerns of the navy s.e.a.l. and special forces community who go on such operations like this, that there are -- you can only imagine. they killed osama bin laden. how many radicals are out there who would love to take on those who took down osama bin laden. but here's the important part about that and this is what the navy s.e.a.l. community emphasizes. it's not just the

robert o'neill spoke at a veterans event in tennessee thursday. told the "washington post" he fired the shots that hit bin laden in the forehead during the raid in pakistan in 2011. o'neill talks to the vets about the decision he made to join the s.e.a.l.s. >> september 11th, 2001, our country was attacked obviously. i felt like everyone in the room. i wanted to fight the enemy, get over to afghanistan. >> o'neill faces criticism from some colleagues who says the s.e.a.l.s are not supposed to talk about their missions. two years ago a fellow s.e.a.l. wrote a book describing the raid that killed osama bin laden. >>> police say the woman who was kidnapped from philadelphia last weekend used her wits to help police find her. technology also helped officers track down her suspended kidnapper and bring her home. >> reporter: the violent abduction of carlesha freeland-gaither helped the police track her down. police say as the 22 -year-old nursing assistant was being forced into a car, she left her cell phone behind so police would immediately know who

this guy, o'neil, how he got to be a s.e.a.l. was interesting. >> everything he said was riveting, fascinating, you have to see, i spent two nights seeing it. there was a line where you get chills and this amount of pride. but there was a lot of work, o'neil says, it made me realize that if we wanted to take our gloves off and hurt people, we could. he says this, because we're the good guys, that was a line where i just said wow, that means -- what they did therethere. >> did he say they were dead? >> it's an incredible piece of the documentary, listening to rob o'neil in his own words, thinking maybe they're not going to make it. >> the more we trained on it, the more we realize, this is doing to be a one-way mission. we're going to die when the house blows up, we're going to die when he blows up, or we're going to be there too long when we get arrested by the pakistanis and we're going to spinn spend the rest of our short lives in a pakistani prison. >> i think that's a remarkable testament to this guy and his fellow s.e.a.l.s.

robert o'neill is the target of critici criticism. some in the military community wonder how he can claim to fire the kill shot when two others in bin laden's room fired their weapons. some fault o'neill for taking attention at all. >> he sacrificed a lot in doing this. whether he is the real shoot shooter or not. he put a bull's-eye on his back. >> you are talking about an actual bull's-eye from jihadists. >> his family and himself. anybody that goes to see this guy now is a target when they are in a room with him. >> o'neill says he was willing to acknowledge his part in killing osama bin laden only after being outed by a military blog earlier this week. >>> six minutes past the hour. time for an early start on your money. the dow and s&p hit record highs yesterday. the big word today, jobs. the government releases the october jobs report at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. expecting more than 200,000 jobs created. more about the home depot security breach. 53 million customer e-mail addresses were taken during the hack. that's in addition t

they confirm that rob o'neill is the guy. when you see it tonight, we explain it with rob, with an expert and with graphics that make it crystal clear that he was the guy. >> let's look at one thing before we go to bob, this is a sound from how rob eoe kneel came to be the shooter, the number two man up the stairs to osama bin laden. >> so how is it that you ended up the number two man on the stairs to the third floor? >> just luck. just the way that it worked. the guys ahead of me, based on our tactics, we knew that guy in front stays in front and everybody behind him when there is stuff going on, they need to get through -- you know, the threat and take care of the threat. which could be other people, other rooms, other doors. more important, we need to clear that level before we go up one more. >> so you see that part tonight. bob? >> awant to ask you, osama bin laden's body was taken out so they could prove that in fact it was osama bin laden. did they take him on that helicopter? >> yes. and they explain tonight and it i

bergen sources also say one of the two s.e.a.l.s was in fact rob o'neill.nd certainly while praised by the public, o'neill was criticized by speaking out. >> he sacrificed a lot in doing this. whether he is the real shooter or not, he's put a bull's eye on his back that is bigger in a lot of ways than the bull's eye that osama bin laden had on his. >> you talk about an actual bull's eye from jihadists. >> his family, himself, he's on the speaking lecture circuit, anybody that goes to see this guy now is a target when they're in a room with him. >> joining me now is author of seal of god, chad williams. welcome back to the program. nice to have you on. >> happy to be on. >> here's what i want to know. i talked to the reporter from "the washington post" who talked to him and said it was a struggle to come out and say here's what actually happened. as a s.e.a.l., he did break that central tenant. he's speaking. would you be speaking? >> well, i'm kind of looking at the things that motivated him to reveal himself and he shared a couple of things really at rock

then robert o'neill and a third s.e.a.l. finished him off as he lay on the floor. joining me to sort it out is peter bergen. he's written a lot about the raid including what i think is the definitive account and excellent book called "man hunt." what's going on. do they all want to be known as the man who killed bin laden? do they believe it? are they lying? is this what happens in the fog of war? >> well, michael, i think that i mean, only robert o'neill is definitively saying that i'm the man who killed bin laden. other accounts suggest somebody called the point man who hasn't publicly identified himself, and apparently will never do so, is the person who took the kill shot. on some levels michael, in a way does it matter? it was obviously a team effort. if you took one person out of the team the whole thing would have collapsed. the helicopter pilot who basically, the first helicopter got into a lot of trouble, he was so skilled that he was able to put it down despite the fact that almost any other situation if there had been a helicopter crash at the beginning

rob o'neill is now a motivational speaker. other seals fear, by going public, he's making himself a target for terrorist vengeance. governor elect bruce rauner hits the road today to thank voters across illinois. he's also unveiling a bi- partisan transition team. several democrats are on the staff. they include bill daley, who last served as president obama's chief of staff. there's also former state senator james meeks and pastor corey brooks. rauner didn't give many details about his next moves. but he did say he wants to make illinois the most compassionate and competitive state in the country. >> we are going to improve the quality of life for every family. union and nonunion households, every family i'm working for every one dedicated to get take-home pay up. >>rauner says he has not talked to governor quinn, but he has spoken to president obama and mayor emanuel. he also says he hopes the lame duck session doesn't pass anything significant, but he won't oppose quinn's goal of raising the minimum wage. w-g-n obtained rec

robert o'neill is saying that to "the washington post" that he is the man who fired the fatal shot at osama bin laden but we also have to say that sources in s.e.a.l. team 6 involved in the bin laden raid are also telling peter bergen they do not believe that robert o'neill is correct and he was not the person who fired the fatal shot at osama bin laden. those sources telling peter bergen, our national security analyst, that it was someone who they call the point man who fired a shot down the hallway when bin laden peered his head out the door of his bedroom and that is the shot that killed osama bin laden. robert o'neill now according to sources in the special operations community is the man claiming to be the shooter according to peter bergen but people in s.e.a.l. team 6 tell peter that his account is not correct. he was not the person who fired the fatal shot at osama bin laden. we'll have more on this in "the situation room" at 5:00. >> we'll look for more. perhaps more clarification as well. brian todd, thank you so much. we'll see you later this evening on cnn. >>> meantime, th

o'neill claims he fired the kill shot.s they both did. >> i can't speak for him and i can't say what he saw. i think he's saying what he saw. i think it can be foggy. all i can tell you is what i saw, my end of the story. >> but the closures may have legal consequences and top officers at the special naval command warned other s.e.a.l.s to stop talking. >> the pentagon told us they're listening to what you're saying publicly, monitoring it, they're ready to challenge you legally. >> mm-hmm. >> are you afraid of that? >> no. i would rather that didn't happen. everything i've done has been with them in mind and with the pentagon. >> i think it's hard for people to reconcile the idea when you're saying it's not about me when you're the only name and the only face they have. >> mm-hmm. >> isn't that about you? >> no. like i said, it's my part of the story. i'm not trying to make it about me. >> o'neill's new vision is to help vets start over in life. he started a charity. >> a lot of people say it's more stressful gets out of

. >> reporter: robert o'neill has been on the speaking circuit. >> you don't need a plan to execute, you just execute. >> reporter: this afternoon he identified himself on "the washington post" as the man who killed osama bin laden. another team member wrote a book in which he described it somewhat differently, with three commandos firing shots that hit bin laden. he asked us not to show his face. >> two different people telling two different stories for two different reasons. >> reporter: the men have divided a historically secretive s.e.a.l. community. some saying both are profiting off the backs of all the team members. last week the seals top commander wrote an open letter, saying, we do not abide willful or selfish disregard for our core values, in return for public notoriety and financial gain. and warned of legal consequences for those who place our teammates at risk. >> if classified information is accidentally released to the world, seals can get killed. innocent people can get killed. other american military people can get killed. that's what this is all about. >> reporter:

. >> reporter: former navy seal robert o'neill now works as a motivational speaker but at least one fellow former seal said -- >> i wouldn't be anywhere close to this guy. whether he is the real shooter or not, he put a bull's eye on his back that's bigger in a lot of ways than the bull's eye that osama bin laden had on his. >> reporter: national security analyst peter bergen doesn't think it likely that a jihadist would attack o'neill but the claim of killing osama bin laden does create another problem. >> it's the issue of going out and being public about it and secondly, there are people who basically are undercutting his version of events. >> reporter: reportedly part of the seal team which conducted the raid on bin laden's compound, o'neill claims to have shot him in the head first killing him instantly but sources say a wing man hit him before two other people hit him. >> there was a day and age when the silent professional was the person who did the job and didn't look for the glory. now what you have is classified information being used for power by politicians and money by some of

robert o'neill is a 38-year-old from montana. he said he climbed the stairs to the third floor of that bin laden compound, suddenly a head peeped around the corner of one of the bedrooms and shots were fired by his colleague on the stairs and suddenly a couple of women rushed them on the corridor while his colleague was taking care of the women, sort of holding them back, he ended up in a room alone with the al qaeda leader, and that's when he pumped these bullets in him. >> but he's being contradicted by other accounts. >> that's right. there was one written in a book two years ago by a man using the sued anymore mark and who was also on that mission. he said there were three of them who climbed the stairs and that actually it was their colleague on the stairs that managed to fire those fatal shots. but officials are saying none of these navy seals should be talking. there is a code of silence. but, of course, it is pretty good for your job prospects if you say you're the man who killed bin laden and there are wrangles going on

o'neill says the point man either missed or just wounded bin laden. that s.e.a.l.o tell his story. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >>> something of a mystery and a warning both centering on a situation in san diego. take a look at this pregnant panhandler with a young child asking people for money near shopping centers. witnesses say they'd be there every weekend. one woman was watching closely as the woman and the boy climbed into a mercedes. yeah, mercedes. when the panhandler saw she was being photographed, she went on the attack. >> she picks up this big boulder. goes over her head. i don't know if pregnant people can do that. it was pretty big over her head and coming at me with this rock. >> police were called but the panhandler and a male companion and the child got away. tracking the license plate led to an apartment which the couple had apparently just let. >> they say it's a late model and that apartment goes for $2,500 a month. you want to say it's in good faith. you want to say they're not out there with a scheme, right? >> a lot of homeless advoc

robert o'neill, a highly decorated veteran, says he fired the fatal shot. >> i'm proud of what i did, but my mission didn't end because i left the battlefield. >> there's a code in that community that you don't talk about what you do and you don't try to get financial gain off your operations and so it's disappointing that some have sought to do that. >> reporter: in a recent letter rear admiral brian rosie wrote a critical tenant of our ethos is i do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my action. >> making sure we're always quiet professionals humble in our work. >> reporter: susan levano's father was a world war ii vet and brother a vietnam vet and said they would have handled it differently. >> my father was the captain of the pt boat that rescued kennedy and he was always so humble and never talked about his experiences until now. now he's in his 90s. >> reporter: bill d'antonio, another world war ii vet, questions o'neill's decision to go public. >> there's a certain degree of heroes involved i wonder about. we're making hero out of everybody. we have re

o'neil, who now garners speaking fees, telling tales from his time as a navy s.e.a.l. is a decorated veteran. o'neil had told his story mon sli in escape magazine nearly two years ago, describing how he confronted bin laden in his bedroom, firing twice to the forehead after he said the s.e.a.l. who was ahead of him fired and missed. he told "the post" he decided to go public spontaneously after meeting families of the 9/11 victims. he is now the second former s.e.a.l. team six member to tell details about the raid. matt bissonette wrote a best seller under a side anymore, saying he, too, fired bull lets at bin laden. both men have been criticized. a recent letter to the special operations team which did not name the men, said, "we do not abide willful of selfish disregard for our core values in return for public notoriety or financial gains." >> we always want to emphasize the team nature of what the s.e.a.l.s do. there are a lot of people who are involved in that raid against osama bin laden. >> reporter: while two of the men on the team have now talked, many others o

tramon was looking at his old teammate germane o'neil. it today. >> twitter lit up and facebook lit up. >> bright spot for the warriors for sure. >> thanks mark. >>> thank you for joining us tonight. our next newscast the ktvu morning news beginning at 4:30 tomorrow morning. >> you can find us on twitter, facebook or ktvu.com. have a good night. >> good night. what ♪ food is more than just a meal. ♪ food is love. at monsanto, we believe everyone deserves a healthy, balanced meal. and a future that sustains us all. it's time for a bigger discussion about food. be part of the conversation at discover.monsanto.com ion ] honey, i thought you were gonna take out the garbage. i am. [ game continues ] phil. yes, getting it. i was -- i was gonna get it. dylan. hey, mrs. dunphy. um, i'm just waiting for haley. did you ring the bell? i texted. she said she'd be down in just a minute. oh, great. tell her i said hi. i will. dylan! d-money! chillin' with dylan the villain. "d" to the "y" to the -- hey, mr. dunphy. hey, come on in. you're just in time