romney campaign accusing obama of playing politics with the kill of osama bin laden. this new ad featuring bill clinton. take a look. >> suppose navy s.e.a.l.s had gone in there and it hasn't been bin laden . the down side would have been horrible. but he reasoned. he took the harder and more honorable path. and the one that produced in my win i don't know the best result. >> that ad then goes on to suggest mitt romney might not have gotten bin laden. p the romney campaign says it goes too far. >> this is one of the reasons president obama has become one of the most divisive presidents in american history. he took something that was a unifying event for all americans and he's managed to turn it into a divisive partisan political attack. >> let's talk more about this with our political power panel. debbie dingle, morris especially seen and perry bacon. great to see all of you. republicans accuse the president of really spiking the football on this will. is that far? no pictures of the president with a accomplish accomplished banner waving behind him and isn't that the m

this is osama bin laden's beyond this life and reportedly his favorite. she was shot and the like trying to defend him. she told interrogators the al qaeda leaders spent nine years on pakistan and soil, moving location five times. four of her children were born here, two of them in government hospitals. now osama bin laden's widows and children can start packing their bags. their lawyer emerge to welcome the verdict, alongside her brother. i before speeding away, they gave us their reaction. >> all of the five accused had been sentenced to 1.5 months in prison. the government has been directed to deport them. >> are you satisfied with the verdict? >> we are very satisfied. >> osama bin laden brother and moss said the judges had been fair, the windows were looking forward to going home. -- the widows were looking forward to going home. the women will serve only two more weeks because they have spent the past month in official detention. the women will be freed, but not yet. until they are deported, there will remain in pakistani custody. probably he read t

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i want to talk about the politics of osama bin laden. one year later after he was killed at the direction by the raid by this president. here is a campaign ad that is being run that features former president clinton. here's a portion of it. >> it's one thing george bush said that was right. the president is the decider in chief. nobody can make that decision for you. look, he knew what would happen. suppose the navy s.e.a.l.s had gone in there and it hadn't been bin laden. suppose they'd been captured and killed. the downside would have been horrible for him. but he reasoned i cannot in good conscience do nothing. he took the harder and the more honorable path. and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. >> so you've heard ed gallespie. you've seen senator john mccain saying this is over the line. >> well, certainly it's not over the line. look, just a few years ago president obama then a candidate said in a speech if we have actionable intelligence of a high valued target in pakistan we'd go in and get that high value tar

and the intelligence analysts and our government for completing the mission in terms of killing osama binsan, political attack. >> so, has the president politicized bin laden's death? dana? >> i would have to say yes he just recently released an ad where they included an out of context quote from mitt romney that tried to show him as being weak on jihad when in fact full quote shows the exact opposite and they made at it political ad. so that is absolutely politicizing it. not only that we learned later it was all in the craven's hands. it was set up if he had to take the blame he necessarily wouldn't have to but he could take the victory for it. he opened himself up to with it this ad. >> maria? >> i'm going to use a word that comes from the gop's own newt gingrich which is, spare me the pious baloney. who out there really believes if this operation had gone sour if we had lost lives and not gotten osama bin laden that it wouldn't be the number one reason that republicans would use to get president obama out of office. by the way, if mitt romney and all the other republicans who have bee

has-- has the death of osama bin laden really changed things very much? l, i have two things, bob. one is that al qaeda burned itself out. it was an organization that even bin laden himself before he was killed understood had failed in its aims of violent jihad. if you read these documents you find bin laden, who is deeply upset by mistakes his affiliates made in killing too many muslims to the point where he ruminates about rebanding the organizationes, dropping the name al qaeda altogether. he knew before he died the extent of that military failure. in terms of ideas, as i travel the arab world and read about what's happened there in this amazing year of uprising and awakening, i'm struck by how many of the people who have risen owe their muslim ideology to people who bin laden himself looked to. they're some of the same roots. you see muslim brotherhood leaders rising into prominent positions in egypt, possibly in syria, if bashar al-assad is overthrown, certainly in the future, and libya. so bin laden's violent dreams of jihad probably died with him. b

this is osama bin laden's youngest wife and reportedly his favor. she was shot in the leg trying to defend him. according to this police report, she told interrogators he spent nine years on pakistani soil, and moving location five times. four of her children were born here. two of them in government hospitals. now his widows and children can start packing their bags. their lawyer emerged to welcome the verdict. before speeding away, he gave us their reaction. >> all the five accused of been sentenced to 1.5 months in prison and fined a we have submitted. we're very satisfied with the verdict. >> osama bin laden's brother-in- law said the judges had been fair and that the widows were looking forward to going home. but they are happy with the verdict -- >> they are happy with the verdict. >> the women will serve only two more weeks. they've spent the last month in official detention. the women will be freed but not yet. it is reported they will remain in pakistan because to the, probably at this house. -- it is reported they will remain in pakistani

one year after the raid that killed osama bin laden, al qaeda gears up for revenge. >>> in hiding. a chinese legal activist who escaped from house arrest is believed to be taking refuge in the u.s. embassy. >>> and white house humor. president obama tries for laughs at the expense of mitt romney at the annual white house correspondents' dinner. >> we also both have degrees from harvard. i have one. he has two. what a snob. >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, april 30, 2012. >>> good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm michelle miller. it was one year ago this week, u.s. special forces raided osama bin laden secret compound in pakistan and killed the al qaeda leader. al qaeda is weaker but remain a threat to americans and u.s. interests and the raid has become a political issue in this year's presidential campaign. tara mergener is in washington with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. this anniversary is quickly becoming a controversial campaign issue. this as americans are warned to be on guard while officials track down leads. the fbi and homel

this week, expect the obama camp about osama bin laden. and republicans to keep away about the economy. people turnedf to hear afternoon joel o'steentor speak. it was supposed to happen last was canceled because of weather. devout following. he has a weekly television show, podcast. >> the national cathedral is guided tours of the gargoyles. -- the first was given this afternoon. the cathedral is continuing to money to complete repairs. >> turning now to the weather, a sunday, a big improvement over yesterday. little bit of sunshine went a long way. temperatures about 20 degrees warmer than we were yesterday. 70 at reagan national airport, at dulles. temperatures fall through the 60's with increasing clouds. winds will start to diminish out the north. up in just a few minutes, at the extended outlook. for the 80's? tell you when in just a few minutes. >> still to come, deadly latest on the storm that claimed one life outside in st. louis. >> a second shooter in the rfk assassination? >> a witness to rfk's assassination is challenging the o

she included in a montage of photographs, osama bin laden's image. this was the obama campaign's response. it's ironic, she, hillary clinton, would borrow the president's tactic in her own campaign and invoke osama bin laden to score political points. we already have a president who plays the politics of fear. the politics of fear is in the eyes of the beholder, the current president is doing exactly the same thing. is he not? >> he is. but i make a distinction between the two parts of that ad you showed about osama bin laden. look, you can run a positive ad saying, here's the president. he had a tough decision to make. he made t. he risked a lot and he succeeded. perfectly legitimate and that's not to politicize, this is a real historical event. he took a risk. fine. what really sours that ad and i think we will have a negative effect on the viewer, negative towards obama, is the sliming of romney at the same time. there was no reason to make it a negative ad. does anybody really believe anybody who had been in the oval office who would have had all

well how do you figure that with osama bin laden is that well first off osama bin laden's death to signal our departure from afghanistan is like see it we're done frankly we've engaged the afghan taliban for no good reason they are now a resistance movement now and we're we're the ones in the middle of the cars like government was corrupt and the taliban who are not corrupt but clearly have visions of coming back in and being supported by the pakistanis with that said the key is always been pakistan we continue to pretend otherwise but the pakistanis are the key they have nuclear weapons are the ones who have been supporting the taliban they've given the quetta shura moammar. conny network these are all networks we use during the soviet occupation against the soviets so we're we're not actually addressing the real issues and frankly this drone strike stuff is just going to continue to create the next generation of terrorists because for every one you kill brennen finally admitted that yes we're killing civilians to we've known this germany has gone in there and found the sound from so and

osama bin laden was at large. the our alliances were dangerously frayed in our economy, the foundation of our national security was in the press a piece of a new depression. president obama began to act immediately. he set in motion a policy to end the war in iraq responsibly. he said a clear strategy and an end date for the war in afghanistan has been going on for less than a decade. he cut in half the number of americans who are serving in harm's way. he decimated al qaeda's senior leadership. he repaired our alliances and restored our standing in the world. he saved our economy. he saved our economy from collapse with some unpopular but bold decisions that have turned out to be right including the rescue of the automobile industry. all of which has made us much stronger not only at home but abroad. if you are looking for a bumper sticker to sum up how president obama has handled what we have inherited, it is pretty simple. osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. [applause] governor mitt romney's na

on may 2 president obama announced osama bin laden's death. u.s. officials are concerned about potential attacks. security is being increased for the next week or so. a major milestone tomorrow at ground zero. on monday, construction workers will hoist a steel column, making it the tallest building in new york. the world trade center will be 21 feet taller than the empire state building. when it is finished, it will stand 104 floors tall. >> steve jobs will be honored. he will be inducted into the national inventors hall of fame in alexandria. the group honors those who have conceived and patented great technological advancements. in october of last year, after this in his betbattle to buy brett -- pancreatic cancer. a new proposal suggests barr's stay open an extra hour. it could raise an extra $5 million per year for the district. critics claim it could lead to more drunk driving noise, and contestant. council member jim grant says he expects the committee to vote by wednesday. still to come, he made national headlines when he adopted his girlfri

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wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the raid that killed osama bin laden.te house officials say there is no sign of a specific al qaeda revenge plot but al qaeda is still trying to attack american interests. >>> and it's presumed a chinese legal activists is hiding out in the u.s. embassy in beijing. activists say china and the u.s. are trying to resolve the issue before secretary of state clinton's visit later this week. >>> a disease that normally attacks adults is now being found in the young. it's type 2 diabetes. a new report says doctors are seeing a dramatic increase, especially in overweight teens. and as tony it's also harder to treat. >> reporter: type 2 diabetic was never seen in young children 15 years ago. doctors know a major risk factory is obesity. >> very little is known about the right way to both prevent it and to treat it. >> reporter: a new study in "the new england journal of medicine" finds standard treatment for type 2 diabetes in children is ineffective because the commonly prescribed drug metformin has a high failure rate in childr

and it does not have the charisma that osama bin laden had.nd, but, yet, he still aspires to strike some sort of attack, but he's actually been kind of weakened, there in pakistan as well because he doesn't have the ability to muster forces. what does it say about our activities to prevent these kinds of things from happening? >> well, what's happened is that we've gotten pretty darn good at the use of drugs and the use of direct action in places like pakistan and many of the franchise countries and that's greatly weakened his ability to bring his middle management together, and in a corporate level start planning big events. because these drones are essentially killing off his middle management one at a time. usually by name. and of course, what that does, two things, number one, takes them out of the action, but secondly makers them reluctant to mass anywhere, even in pakistan. >> kelly: i'm glad you brought up the use of drones. refining now that the obama administration is opening up the window, so to speak, of the ceo to start operating w

should he applaud what he has done for taking on osama bin laden?t to put down romney when doing so. >> no. if you recall he was referring to releasing the photograph of osama bin laden. at the end of the day. mitt romney went out there and he said we shouldn't move heaven and earth to get osama bin laden. >> what he was saying, it was taken out of context. he was saying it was not just war on terror was not just about osama bin laden. it's about terrorists. >> he said point blank and george bush i want to get this dead or alive. that didn't happen. mitt romney saider don't agree with george bush. >> americans would not have said take them out. all americans would have said that. it would have been treason, hey, i'm responsible for this. what about the navy seals and what about president bush that laid the groundwork. >> julie: so it came out. he said we don't put this stuff out as trophies. is he contradicting. >> he was talking about the pictures. there was a lot of pressure to release the picture of a dead osama bin laden. we don't put bodies on

laden, that osama bin laden has been killed, that they are convinced they have the body of osama osama bin laden, the biggest villain of the 21st century in pakistan. thank you, sir, good to see you. it's an anniversary and a lot of people are glad about this anniversa anniversary, let's say that. he's a contributing general to the intelligence center. one year after osama's death, are we safer because of it? >> we are safer, absolutely, don. we've heard a lot of analytics that it's not time for a high five, and nobody took a breather and said this is wonderful and did victory laps. clearly what is required is vigilance and persistence, and this is an ongoing struggle that's not going to go away in the immediate time frame. it's very much a persistent operation that has to take place in multiple locations around the globe, and our intelligence community with a lot of partners and a lot of locations are doing a very good job of making sure we're identifying those pockets of radicalism as they appear, identifying the leaders and being able to target them quite effectively. >> gener

>> well, the youngest wife of osama bin laden is from yemen, and certainly her brother in law has been here for a few months. we've actually had a chance, sorry, her brother, that's bin laden's brother in law has been hee for a few months. we had a chance to speak to him. he said he's very satisfied with this verdict. he's been waiting to take his sister back to yemen and that's what he presumes he'll be able to do. there are other families from saudi arabia as well. in the past they have said they don't want the bin laden family to be returning to saudi arabia. we haven't had any official confirmation about the deportation. that's what we're hearing from the lawyer of the family. >> and that compound where the women, along with osama bin laden have been living has been pretty much destroyed by the authorities, hasn't it? >> completely destroyed now. they went in at the dead of night. the pakistani authorities tried to keep us all away. we managed to sneak close to the compound, saw it being demolished with our own eyes. it all feels like a process of trying to move on from this very e

navy seals carried out the mission to take out osama bin lad laden. the white house acknowledging al qaeda has been downgraded over the past decade but more work lies ahead. >> we are determined to destroy the organization. we are going to destroy it but that will continue to require us to maintain pressure outside of whether it be in pakistan, afghanistan as well as in yemen. >> part of that pressure includes the use of more predator drones. obama changing the policy allowing drones to target mid level members of al qaeda and yemen. they have been gaining more strength. meantime u.s. counter-terrorism officials say al qaeda would still like to carry out a strike particularly against the united states. >> generallial guide is not in the game of symbolic attacks. the at this ti tit for tat is something special to them. they will keep an eye on tooth for a tooth eye for an eye behavior and aim at obama or the next one. >>> there is no specific threat to our home land at the present time. obama campaign is highlighting the order to raid islamabad compoun

i want to talk about the politics of osama bin laden. one year later after he was killed athe dictn the raid ts president. eris cpan tt beg n atearefoer psintlion hee'rtn i that was right. the president is the decider in chief. nobody can make that decision for you. look, he knew what would happen. suppose the navy s.e.a.l.s had gone in there and it hadn't been bin laden. suppose they'd been captured and killed. the downside would have been horrible for him. but he reasoned i cannot in good conscience do nothing. he took the harder and the more honorable path. and the one that produced, in my >>o u' hrdd piest result. vetojo mai ts r ne >> well, certainly it's not over the line. look, just a few years ago president obama then a candidate said in a speech if we have actionable intelligence of a high valued target in pakistan we'd go in and get that high value target. mitt romney said that was foolish. he wouldn't do such a thing. that he wouldn't move heaven and earth to get osama bin laden. barack obama as our commander in chief asked ou

this campaign ad for the obama campaign to talk about the decision to give the go ahead to kill osama bin. that was one year ago tomorrow. the white house is pulling out all of the stops to remind them what happened that day. a rare interview from the situatioroom to talk about the bin laden mission. the white house is politicizing an event that drew the nation together. back to you guys. >>> thank you so much. speaker of the house john boehner is also talking this morning. he's slamming the president for picking quote fake fights. >> i tried to avoid a personal attacks on the president. but let me say something. the president is getting some very bad advice from his campaign team. because he is diminishing the presiden by picking fake fights, going after straw mefrn ry day. even the president admitted it was a gimmick. then we have the rose garden ceremony talking about manipulations in the oil markets without one sled of evidence. he has an entire administration to go after speculation or manipulation in the oil market. then they pick this student loan fight where there is no fight. the

she included in a montage of photographs, osama bin laden's image. this was the obama campaign's response. it's ironic, she, hillary clinton, would borrow the president's tactic in her own campaign and invoke osama bin laden to score political points. we already have a president who plays the politics of fear. the politics of fear is in the eyes of the beholder, the current president is doing exactly the same thing. is he not? >> he is. but i make a distinction between the two parts of that ad you showed about osama bin laden. look, you can run a positive ad saying, here's the president. he had a tough decision to make. he made t. he risked a lot and he succeeded. perfectly legitimate and that's not to politicize, this is a real historical event. he took a risk. fine. what really sours that ad and i think we will have a negative effect on the viewer, negative towards obama, is the sliming of romney at the same time. there was no reason to make it a negative ad. does anybody really believe anybody who had been in the oval office who would have had all

that he wouldn't move heaven and earth to get osama bin laden. >> you're saying that president obama believes that if president romney, if he was working with the same nonpartisan professionals in the counter terror realms in the government who came with him saying we have an opportunity to capture and kill osama bin laden, you're saying president romney wouldn't take that shot? >> i don't think it's clear that he would. he criticized barack obama. when barack obama said if wee would he have actionable intelligence -- let's be clear, nobody was a more high value target than osama bin laden. >> gillespie and gibbs went at it. they appeared separately. gillespie accused the president's policies of hurting female voters. it's something you've heard from many republican voters. mr. gibbs says it isn't true. >> i think sometimes you listen to the romney campaign and they do think a lot of people in this country are stupid. david, their message is you didn't clean up our mess fast enough. as i've said, we've had 11 consecutive months of positive economic growth. 25 consecutive months of po

administration plans release documents that were during that raid, including the last words ever by osama bin laden. >> although bin laden has been year, somearly a leaders of al qaeda still want attack the u.s. in retaliation. officials said there is no sign against the plot nation, but american citizens in pakistan and elsewhere are being vigilant.ay we ask you on facebook whether about aconcerned on the u.s..k 25% of you said yes. possible candidates for mate,omney's running are nearly 20 names of for consideration. mitt romney has appeared with a of possibles, fuelling speculation over his eventual choice. the campaign says the search is still in the early stages. a top epa official is because ofwn comments he made. the agency said to crucify lawbreaking oil and gas companies. he has since apologized for those remarks. project may rail course.ng off expected toase is completed next year. funding for the second phase is not secured. the transportation secretary ray with regionalet officials on wednesday to figure how the $3 billion project can move forward. aren'tl community has quite a di

this week marks the one-year anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden by u.s. forces. officials say bin laden's old team is all but dismantled but new branches of al qaeda are hitting western targets and u.s. allies overseas. they say the leaders still dream of pay back for the raid that killed osama bin laden. >> we are concerned about them

obama's re-election team and the presumptive nominee mitt romney cause the before the killing of osama bin laden and a few days after a much debated web ad was released, that features bin laden touting the decision to take out the al qaeda leader, romney is responding to sharp words from obama campaign adviser robert gibbs who appeared on "meet the press" sunday. >> osama bin laden no longer walks on this planet because of the bravest decision and the brave men and women in our military. and mitt romney said it was a foolish thing to do a few years ago. >> even jimmy carter would have given that order. >> we'll talk about that. much is being said and written about former president clinton narrating that ad and about he and president obama teaming up. joining me, jimmy williams, and erin, let me get your take on mitt romney's response and why he felt even the need to bring up jimmy carter in this flip way. why not take it head on? gibbs was very strong on "meet the press." what do you make of his reaction in. >> i think it is what we're hearing from a lot of people. that maybe it wasn't app