national geographic will air a about the killing of osama bin laden next month.t has raised the ire of some local extremists, and stephen a reports the title of the also bothering some. >> a spokeswoman for national geographic says she has not of a specific threat and confident security is adequate. still, this film and its scheduling are receiving criticism. national geographic headquarters, widely reported to the object of jihadists' anchor, because of a film they plan to run next month. "seal team 6, the raid on osama bin laden." >> as crazy as it is, why not show it? you get insight into happened. >> national geographic says that not received any specific threats. believes that its hundreds of e safe, despite contrary that it not beef up security. some are wondering why that program that could inflame a dangerous group of people, especially some who work near their headquarters. >> maybe the timing is not right. maybe they need to wait a while to tell the story. >> i don't think it is a good idea to show it. >> some are upset about the of the film for another

i raise that because you mentioned osama bin laden. there was a time in this country's past when, if the sitting president had held up osama bin laden's skull, he probably could have gone away with anything. does president obama at this point get any credit for killing enemy number one? >> i would say that he gets responsibility and accountability. the joke was funny, but the reality is that what amounted what was a cold-blooded assassination when there was no resistance from the principal target, when there was no effort to fight back, according to the soldiers carrying out the mission, to assassinate him on the spot, dispose of the body at sea is not something our country should be proud of. the notion that we will bring justice for the crimes of 9/11 does not equate, in my view, with the assassination. tavis: let me jump in quickly. i can hear many americans responding right now to what you just said. first of all, president obama is awfully proud of it could never two, all of his surrogates at the democratic convention kept remindi

alert, energized feeling you need and support breast cancer research and access to care. >> will osama binesident, the first day in office, i was sitting with him in the oval office. he called in the cia and signed an order saying my highest priority is to get bin laden. governor romney was asked the question about how he would proceed. he said i wouldn't move heaven and eater t earth to get will b. he didn't understand it was about restoring america's heart and letting terrorist around the world know if you do harm to america, we will track you to the gates of hell if need be. >> greta: vice president joe biden becoming the biggest cheerleader for the raid that killed osama bin laden. something you didn't didn't know, the vice president opposed the mission. in fact, he was the only advisor that told the president not to go ahead with the manual. plan. the author of "the finish: the killing of osama bin laden" joins. it's absolutely fascinating. i want to go first to the issue of about what you write about in the book. you write about vice president biden. it says he believed if the effort

code game is geronimo. >> the raid on osama bin laden will be shown on the national geographic channeln laden's death has been a key point in president obama's re-election bid. the national geographic channel said the decision to run the movie was not politically motivated. >>> federal agents arrested dozens of medical professionals in a nationwide sweep of alleged medicare sweep. teresa garcia reports. >> reporter: the medicare fraud strike force took aim at 91 defendants including doctors and nurses in one of the largest health care fraud busts. arrests were made in baton rouge, brooklyn, chicago, dallas, houston, los angeles and miami. the charges involve allege treatment and services that were eater medically unnecessary or in some cases never actually provided. the u.s. attorney general says the fraud amounts to nearly $430 million in false billings. >> the total includes over $to 30 million in home health care fraud, more than $100 million in mental health care fraud and approximately $49 million in ambulancing transportation fraud. >> reporter: prosecutors say alpha ambulance in

. >> flash point, osama bin laden and al qaeda. 11 years after the 9/11 attacks, terrorism and how to fight it remains a crucial presidential responsibility in the 21st century. president obama rides high in the polls on this issue for one big reason. >> tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> tonight, the president practically boasted and slammed romney. >> when it comes to going after osama bin laden, you said, well, any president would make that call. but when you are a candidate in 2008 as i was and i said, if i got bin laden in our sights, i would take that shot, you said, we shouldn't move heaven and earth to get one man. >> mitt romney tried to undermine the president's bin laden triumph with a blunt line. >> i congratulate him on taking out osama bin laden and going after the leadership in al e cay out of this mess. we must have a comprehensive strategy to help reject this kind of extremism. >> at the end both men had probably achieved some of what th

, saddam hussein more important than osama bin laden? i don't think so. >> ninety-second response, mr. president. >> my opponent looked at the same intelligence i looked at and declared in 2002 that saddam hussein was a grave threat. he also said in december of 2003 that anyone who doubts that the world is safer without saddam hussein does not have the judgment to be president. i agree with him. the world is better off without saddam hussein. i was hoping diplomacy would work. i understand the serious consequences of committing our troops into harm's way. it's the hardest decision a president makes. so i went to the united nations. i didn't need anybody to tell me to go to the united nations. i decided to go there myself. and i went there hoping that, once and for all, the free world would act in concert to get saddam hussein to listen to our demands. they passed the resolution that said, "disclose, disarm, or face serious consequences." i believe, when an international body speaks, it must mean what it says. saddam hussein had no intent

osama bin laden attacked us. al qaida attacked us. and when we had osama bin laden cornered in the mountains of tora bora, 1,000 of his cohorts with him in those mountains. with the american military forces nearby and in the field, we didn't use the best trained troops in the world to go kill the world's number one criminal and terrorist. they outsourced the job to afghan warlords, who only a week earlier had been on the other side fighting against us, neither of whom trusted each other. that's the enemy that attacked us. that's the enemy that was allowed to walk out of those mountains. that's the enemy that is now in 60 countries, with stronger recruits. he also said saddam hussein would have been stronger. that is just factually incorrect. two-thirds of the country was a no-fly zone when we started this war. we would have had sanctions. we would have had the u.n. inspectors. saddam hussein would have been continually weakening. if the president had shown the patience to go through another round of resolution, to sit down with those

osama bin laden is dead. it to many americans osama bin laden equaled al qaeda.se two things were the same. has the administration underestimated the new al qaeda? let's call it that. all these people linked or affiliated or inspired by? >> they have made great gains against the core, the group that attacked us on 9/11. osama bin laden is dead, no goubt it. we have other offshoots and affiliates and one probably attacked us on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 in libya. this libya thing is going on and on, and we don't get the answers we need. so i'm really confused how the president is actually using this, but, you know, we have to be -- we have to focus on this -- the continuing proliferation of al qaeda and the threat that is it brings to the united states and our interests overseas. >> nick, let me ask you. since osama bin laden was killed the administration said al qaeda is on the run. it started immediately thereafter when leon panetta was talking. do you think officials feared that discloses the fact that al qaeda-linked groups were responsible in their estimat

de monit aewimes on the trail. >> osama bin laden is dead. general motors is alive. >> i got a butcher -- bumper sticker for you, osama bin laden o bads ndelor rato i alive. >> osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. that's a bumper sticker. it sums it up. >>neil: does it? keue gutth ttobaamn department doing a 180 before the v.p. debate. it is not making the president look any stronger on his key suorpo. ilp h i tidllave some trouble when he faces paul ryan on this. the romney campaign ha been making the case that president obama should have been more prepared for the attacks. the white house has not done a good job defending eresint is ileue i t it a tragedy, you can question people on what they knew or how much they knew, but it is the mide east, it is a bask case, move on. >>guest: sure, but, basically, is i now ahitese o onndallid president should have done more to prevent this and now president obama doesn't get to talk aout the new unemployment rate of 7.8 percent. instead he spends the next week defending the white house

he accused the united states of torture and at one point referenced the killing of osama bin laden. the terrorist showed up to the hearing two hours late wearing a camouflage u.s. military vest. >> a cia agent and mefrn soldier were killed in another insider attack in began mentd it haled saturday the soldier is a 24-year-old pretty gorton gordon. a manhunt now underway in colorado for whom ever is responsible for killing five people inside a restaurant. police believe the person killed them and then set the bar and grill on fire. the owner of the bar was among those killed. the 5 victims were the only ones inside at the time. they are asking any one with information to come forward. >> the deadly meningitis outbreak the death toll has rinz to 19. 200 others are sick. as many as 14,000 people were exposed to the drug as well as the two other drugs made by the same company that are potentially linked to the outbreak. the house handle has combi enthem a mt. to turn over documents relate to do the pharmacy that produced the drugs. >> cardinal dolan heading to syria. he is part of a hav

motors is alive. >> osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. >> osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. that's a bumper sticker. it sums it up. >>neil: does it? or did one of the obama campaign key issues go out with the department doing a 180 before the v.p. debate. it is not making the president look any stronger on his key issue, foreign policy. does it help or hurt? >>guest: it hurts. i don't biden will have some trouble when he faces paul ryan on this. the romney campaign has been making the case that president obama should have been more prepared for the attacks. the white house has not done a good job defending the president on this. >>neil: the issue is that people do not care. it was a tragedy, you can question people on what they knew or how much they knew, but it is the middle east, it is a bask case, move on. >>guest: sure, but, basically, this is now a white house on defense, mitt romney in a speech on monday, basically said the president should have done more to prevent this and now president obama doesn't get to talk about the new unemployment

he killed osama bin laden.ive, given the fact that apparently al-qaeda is back, that's in shambles, too. >> he takes a lot of credit and a lot of people are very angry about it, especially the military for having killed osama bin laden. let's assume any one of you were president. the military comes, we've got them. by the way, his decision was delayed to a point where him and hillary supposedly were really going at it. but let's assume they come to you and say we have bin laden. you can bomb them, get him or leave them alone of the nobody is going to leave him alone. so i don't care who is president, you're going to make the same decision. the military should get credit. what credit does he get? honestly, what credit does he get? he said okay, go get him. who wouldn't say that? do you know of anybody that would -- >> steve: he spiked the football. >> then he wants to take such great credit. i moon, it's this big thing. he got big laden. the military got bin laden and they were look for years and by the way, bef

>> yes. >> it's true that osama bin laden was killed -- >> do i think america is safer without osama n or gadhafi or any of these despots, absolutely i do. >> but we're seeing that we've just had a situation where an ambassador was killed and we were told for about a week that it was because of a movie on youtube? that doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence. i think that's what a lot of this is about. it's about okay, we're going to be strong. we are going to put action behind our words instead of just saying i hope that we'll be nice and maybe they'll like us. >> okay. let's turn to maria again. apparently we have got to be strong. what does that mean? >> look, i think mitt romney's foreign policy can be described like this. a whole lot of bluster, a whole lot of blunder, and not a whole lot of there, there. because you're right, everything that he talked about today in terms of what he would do, we don't know what he would do differently than what president obama has been doing quite successfully, i would add, in terms of foreign policy. he goes abroad, he insults england, in the

finally getting osama bin laden bought some closure to me, she said. when we bring those to of harm to us to justice, that sends a message to the world and it tells her that we did not forget her father. i make that point because that is the kind of clarity of leadership and those decisions are not always popular. they are generally not pull tested. even some in my own party, including my current vice- president, had the same critique as you did. but what the american people understand is that i look at what we need to get done to keep the american people safe and to move our interests for. i make those decisions. >> that takes us to the next segment. governor, america's long as war, afghanistan and pakistan. >> you cannot have the presently out a whole series and i give a chance to respond to request with respect, you lay out quite a problem there -- you laid out quite a program there. >> united states is set to turn over responsibility to the afghan government in 2014. we will withdraw our combat troops at that point, leaving smaller force of america

we were attacked by al qaeda and osama bin laden. we went into afghanistan and very quickly the administration made a decision to divert attention from that an instead began to plan for the invasion of iraq. and these connections -- i want the american people to hear this very clearly. listen carefully to what the vice president is saying because there is no connection between saddam hussein and the attacks of september 11. period. the 9/11 commission has said that's true, colin powell has said it's true. but the vice president keeps suggesting that there is. there is not and, in fact, any connection with al qaeda is tenous at best. >> mr. vice president, you have 90 seconds to respond. >> the senator has his facts wrong. i have not suggested there's a connection between iraq and 9/11. but there's clearly an established iraqi track record with terror. and the point is that that's the place where you're most likely to see the terrorists come together with weapons of mass destruction, the deadly technologies that saddam hussein had dev

there's no disputing that osama bin laden was killed in pakistan.he obama administration used drones in pakistan killing a lot of the al qaeda operatives. but that focus is on the al qaeda core, the original group. what is worry so many here is affiliates in yemen, north africa and the arabian peninsula, operating in yemen who had that underwear bomber a few years ago. somalia is considered a threat. they're believed to be tied to that attack in the u.s. consulate in libya. then the unrest in syria provided an opportunity for al qaeda in iraq and that country. so both claims are true, john. president obama's claim on core leadership is weakened. but those affiliates are active and remain a threat. >> so he called mitt romney a flip-flopper on a lot of subjects. onest big ones last night was afghanistan. >> well, that's right. president obama accused mitt romney of initially being against the withdraw of forces from afghanistan in 2014. but as early as last year, mitt romney said he agrees with the 2014 withdrawal date. and he stuck with that. but he

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today, osama bin laden is no more. >> reporter: polls released monday, though, show mitt romney closed the gap. polit key has the president's lead down to 1 -- politico has the race down to 1%. dallas has yet down to 40% and rasmussen has it tied at 48%. when we pushed the voters and asked which way they're leaning, the saner -- answer is closer, 48 to 48. >> reporter: results from the 2008 mom no said puts this race up for grabs. >> there is a lot happening in the next 30 days. >> reporter: in a fox 5 interview, senator mccain said the obama administration -- the libya consulate attack as part of a pattern, confusion in u.s.- form policy. >> how would we know that mitt romney would perform better as a president in similar situation in. >> a lot of times, tom, it's not the crime but the coverup. what is the worse thing is five days later, sending our u.n. ambassador at every news outlet saying this was a hateful video that caused a spontaneous demonstration. that is outrageous. >> reporter: with four weeks left, one campaign is trying to keep building its momentum while another is tryi

called "the finish: the killing of osama bin laden." mark bowden joins me here from washington. mark, good morning to you. and just so our viewers understand, you and steve croft of cbs, you were the only two of all the journalists globally who asked for this kind of access to the president, you got it. >> yeah. >> given this access, when you spoke with president obama, what was the one thing he told you about this raid that most surprised you? >> well, really i think it was that when admiral mcraven first outlined the mission, what it would take to send the squadron of s.e.a.l.s. into abbottabad, the admiral recommended if they woke pennsylvania's military and were confronted -- woke up pennsylvan pakistan's military and were confronted -- they thought that admiral mcraven would have been more aggressive on this point, but president obama said, no, if you're going in, i want you to be prepared to fight your way out because we're not going to leave those men at the mercy of our negotiations with pakistan. >> and finish. and finish. >>> and i think it's interesting, the title of

. >>> president obama hoped to put osama bin laden on trial, that is a cording to a new book out later this month. the book quoting the president saying, mr. obama thought he would be in a strong enough political position after bin laden's capture to put bin laden on trial in the u.s. if bin laden survived the navy seal takedown. the president expecting bin laden going down fighting the book "the finish" on sale in 12 days. >>> the administration says there is evidence that stiff economic sanctions against iran are working. iranians protested in the streets of tehran yesterday, voicing anger about iran's plummeting currency and lost more than a third of its value in just a week. so that means it is costing citizens, a lot more to purchase imported goods. >>> american airlines is sweetening its offer as contract talks continue pilots. the carrier offering to put off

also this guy clearly a disciple of osama bin laden.n laden as our beloved and he had written something for inspire magazine. that was -- >> brian: hoping to get published. >> steve: exactly right. had it happened. >> gretchen: that recruits these young people to be followers of osama bin laden even when he's dead. even with al-awlaki. >> brian: al-awlaki's dvd's or speeches on the internet are the ones that inspired him. by the way, the president should be bringing that up, i killed al-awlaki. >> gretchen: remember, they wanted to sue the government for taking him out, for killing an american citizen. >> brian: the aclud. >> gretchen: the president is not talking about something else as of yesterday. his speech used to include the words, when he would say osama bin laden is dead and gm is it alive, al-qaeda is on the run. well, why was it absent from the stump speech? will it be absent today and moving forward until the election? listen to this. >> four years ago i told you i'd end the war in iraq and i did. [ cheers and applause ] i s

i happen to be in atlanta when osama bin laden was murdered and i was the only one on any of the t.v. shows that said you know i'm ashamed you go in there and you murder a defenseless old man without any weapons at all he had no weapons he had no way to defend himself. the political mileage that obama is going to get out of killing osama bin laden is maybe some something worth but it's certainly not something to be proud of what he needs to do is explain why he explained our policy in afghanistan as disrupting disputing the taliban and the al-qaeda well there are only fifty left in al qaeda so why are we still there and will leaving in two thousand and four thirty two thousand and fourteen why not two thousand and thirteen who wants to be the last u.s. to die in a fool's errand in afghanistan when it's not going to be. so depressed and i wonder if they're going to talk about. well they'll have to talk about afghanistan but if romney were smart he'd say it's a fool's errand we've got to get out of there we were wrong we've got to bring our troops right back now why can't he say that or

. >>> time now we have new details about the raid that killed osama bin laden. the reason obama actually wanted to keep him alive. >>> and the lawsuit being filed by sex offenders, what they want to be able to do on the sun noel grade. >>> i will tell you more about the morning commute, don't go away. . >>> leaders in turkey have no plans for the ongoing attack, and the aid to the turkish prime minister said it was in stops to an attack that killed five p they are authorizing military actions against its neighbor and they say it should all be seen as a warning against them. >>> they wanted to put a warning on them if he survived. he would have given osama bin laden full rights and tried him for the master minded attacks. republicans say it is an attitude of the current administration. >>> they are giving claims that the anti-interest created a hostile environment for jewish students at uc berkeley. there were charges filed by two reason graduates. apart tied encouraged antisemitic hate speeches and they say they are protected. >>> they are pulling together to re

. >> i congratulate him on taking out osama bin laden but we can't kill out of this mess. >> president obama and mitt romney stare each other down one more time. >> i'm not going to wear rose colored glasses when it comes to russia or mr. putin. >> from from red glasses to red ink, did mitt romney gaughan any red states? or did president obama zing his way to a win? >> so the question is not a game of battleship. >> we go to the scorecards on a special "early start. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start," everyone. >> it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. >> the debates are done. more debates. president obama and mitt romney going toe to toe over america's role on the world stage. >> and by most accounts, it was a more forceful president obama who came out on top last night. the majority of analysts and voters agreeing mitt romney was on the defensive for much of this foreign policy face-off. a cnn poll of people who watched this third and final debate shows 48% favored obama with 40% for romney. the president now two for three in the showdowns in the polling. he also won the second debate b

>>shepard: the president can point to a lot of successes especially osama bin laden. >>reporter: starting with that. you talk about winding down the wars in iraq and afghanistan. the country has gone through a lot of fatigue, money, treasure and blood spilled over the wars. when you talk to top democrats like senator durbin they say the democrats have a good case to make. >> the president has been a strong and steady leader. we have responsibly ended the war in iraq. we are going to end the war in afghanistan. al qaeda is a shadow of its former south. osama bin laden is moldering in a watery grave and we put enough pressure on iran with the sanctions so they cannot develop a nuclear weapon and they want to talk. >>reporter: we have seen mitt romney rise for handling foreign policy and who the american people trust is being on the same stage with the president over the last couple of debates. that has raised the stature, people had not seen him in that lot. a top democratic strategist thinks the democrat will win the debate it is clear from the first two mitt romney is