government's response cctv friday marks the third anniversary of the death of former al qaeda leader osama bin laden three years ago us president barack obama called the death of the lot includes the most significant achievement to defeat al qaeda bin laden is no longer in the picture but the activists of the al qaeda remain and peace. still listen for pakistan. for more cores on a daniel conn joins us live from his love of iodine jungle book and is shown to be jealous of. it's been three years since obama presents osama bin laden was killed in a us attack in pakistan. what is the security situation today in pakistan. and what has changed. oh what a cut as it seems that the new ag government or the varsity press not being able to contain the deteriorating security situation off our pockets on the net though the initiative are holding talks with the odd part about not tobacco in addition to having taken but it does not seem to be working on today's match with the usb ports are flashing headlights that the us has claimed that caucus the nice part is being new is dead too hard to jackson that the

did we just bring to justice osama bin laden? >> we got ban-lon, more of the television, work in afghanistan. think what this administration is doing right now. cozying up to people they should not be. they refuse to declare a terrorist group. egypt is a mess in libya is a mess. we are projecting no strength. if you're worried about justice, for kaywun, yes. heading into the future we learned our lesson. now we have a man in charge you does not seem willing to step up to the plate. where does that leave america? may be back or we were on september the tenth. >> strong words. i don't even know what's going on in the ukraine. should i be playing with atari 2600? they are just laughing right now . lou: a gaining system. i want to make sure you knew. barkeep, sleepover. appreciated. a reminder, do you believe president obama has served of justice for the september 11th attack? we want you to vote, if you would. and then to catch. are you ready? going to the rescue of a 4-year-old boy in california. it is unbelievable. look at this. i

then on the one-year anniversary of osama bin laden's death, in may 2012, the president made a surprisee in afghanistan. >> the reason that the afghans have an opportunity for a new tomorrow is because of you. >> there he signed a deal to withdraw american combat troops by the end of 2014. >> tonight i would like to tell you how we will complete our mission and end the war in afghanistan. >> it's easier to start wars than to end them. the challenge obama faced was to do it in a way that met america's commitments and met a credible standard of success. >>> in may 2012, barack obama added another page to the history books. he became the first president to support same-sex marriage. he did it in an interview with abc's robin roberts. >> i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> the president was preceded by his vice president's full-hearted backing of gay marriage on "meet the press" three days earlier. obama had already overturned the pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy allowing gay people to serve openly in the military. his administration also refused to back the

has been on the rise in pakistan ever since the cia ran a fake vaccination scheme to track down osama bin laden. we will get the latest on the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in nigeria. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the boko haram has released a video showing the first images of the kidnapped nigerian schoolgirls since their abduction nearly one month ago. close to half the nearly 300 girls are seen on the tape, chanting what appears to be a verse from the koran. leader is also shown and appears to offer the girls freedom in exchange for the nigerian government's release of all the groups prisoners. three of the girls are interviewed, saying they have not been harmed and have converted to islam. the nigerian military says it has deployed 10 search teams in the remote northeast where the girls were seized. nigerian president good luck jonathan says he does not believe reports the girls of and taken to neighboring cameroon. working to see where they are. [indiscernible] >> the nigerian government has faced cr

osama bin laden is dead. >> of course osama bin laden is dead, but the organization he led has now spreadut to various trouble spots where affiliates evolved and continue to operate. among other things the annual reports on global terrorism found the incidents of terrorism increased 40 percent between 2012 onnand 2013. this were terror attacks resulting in almost 18,000 deaths that's up to 1600 in 2012. iran is a major sponsor of terrorism. al qaeda is decentralized. affiliates in yemen. they have had mixed results with their he methods coming out confusing and contradictory at times. the reports pointed out a worrisome trend. it was sectarian in nature especially in syrian, lebanon. >> thank you, steve. >>> military benefits survived at least for now. a house panel voting to keep funding for the same military healthcare system. the housing alou ance and the pentagon 1.4 billion in direct subsidy to the commissary s. it would increase and a full committee is expected to approve it next week. >> the gun victim rages on as new data has more than 9,000 personal weapons registered on the post

i kept doing my daily job and of course we have this amazing moment in 2011 where osama bin laden was suddenly found to be in a bunker and was killed in a special operations raid. i got straight on a plane can within 13 hours drove afterward and found a house and started the reporting on the whole raid that came out of washington, the whole idea of how could he hide in this house? he was hundreds of yards, just a few hundred yards from the top military academy in pakistan so i continued another couple of years looking at how did he hide? who knew who was hiding? how did he survive? he had three wives with him, quite a small compound, three story house but it was small, and he had his career, his brother and their families. it was fascinating to go over everything, very difficult. a lot of denials from the pakistani government but eventually i did find what i thought was really important to report, one of the main chapters at the end was osama bin laden was actually being protected by the pakistani secret service. i found an insider in d i 5 who admitted that. we have a do special resp

he also promised to get osama bin laden, check. he promised to get us out of iraq, check. and promised to get us out of afghanistan. check. promises made, promises kept. this is a huge deal for military families with military deployments hanging over their head. so on their point, thank you, mr. president. >> it's an impressive list, van, but not quite mission accomplished yet. peter, let me start with you and give you another list of sorts. syria, libya, egypt, iraq, russia. trust between our allies has dwindled. our enemies grow bolder every day, our relationship with israel seems to be crumbling. we've killed thousands or hundreds, no one knows, with an unaccountable drone war, and terrorism is on the rise. now, don't take my word for it. let's listen to democrat senator dianne feinstein on cnn. >> i see the intelligence. terror is not down in the world, it is up, both deaths, injuries, in many, many different places. >> peter, how can anyone say that president obama's foreign policy has been a success? >> well, i think the thing that most americans care about most is t

except for the killing of osama bin laden and except that it has to be qualified by islamist terrorism's resurgence, if obama's presidency ended today i have no idea what major foreign policy achievements his defenders could recently cite. there's time for it to be otherwise but events do not inspire much confidence. ambassador, reaction to that pretty strong condemnation? >> well, i think obama's greatest accomplishment has been weakening around the world, lessening the respect of our friends and the fear of our opponents, and the killing of osama bin laden, let's be clear, was ten years in the making. all obama did was get out of way of it. i fear that with almost three years left in the administration that the pace and scope of challenges to the united states is going to increase, so it's a grim prospect looking forward. >> well, we certainly hope that they can somehow bring those girls back. ambassador john bolton, thank you, as always, for joining us. >> thank you, eric. >> arthel. >> eric, the commencement at rutgers university is getting under way after a lot of controversy. here'

i guess he got osama bin laden. but i think one of the reasons why the u.s.k is because our economy is weak. and he also has a lot of responsibility there. >> all right. mary, thank you. still ahead, eric shinseki resigns amid outrage over care delays and cover-ups at v.a. hospitals nationwide. so will his oust make a difference? we'll ask a doctor who has been in the system, next. with diabeth to keep life balanced. i don't always have time to eat like i should. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [male announcer] glucerna... you've reached the age where you've learned a thing or two. this is the age of knowing what you're made of. so why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain... it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid long

. >> don't forget this was prior, prior to osama bin laden being taken down.nd the thought was and the discussion was is president obama going into the reelection soft on terror or not? a lot of people are saying -- it was >> stephen: tonight fox news uncovers a new scandalling one of their shows wasn't talking about benghazi. (laughter) then more eastern european conflict. last night my russian dressing got on my chicken kiev. (laughter) then my guest david remnick has a new collection of new yorker pieces from the 1940s. you know, the ones your grandparents always meant to read but didn't. 17% of americans say they would have sex with a robot. the other 83% are liars. (laughter) this is "the colbert report." (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> stephen: welcome to the report. >> stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! (cheers and applause) thank you, folks. welcome to the report. good to have you with us, everybody. folks, that-- this crowd tonight is as crisp as a

osama bin laden's death was the foundation of president obama's re-election campaign in 2012. aden is dead. general motors is arrive. he was soaring to the re-election, and a year and a half after the death of the terror mastermind, which we all applauded. i thank god i was on the air live when the announcement came down. a year and a half later, we had this terror attack in benghazi. it was a situation there that interviewed with the triumphant narrative. he had to spin it, and what is revealed now, and very clearly, and almost without argument, is that the white house and the obama administration closed ranks to maintain the narrative and ubstour what really happened. i think there was clearly a cover-up, or maybe that's too harsh. there was a twisting and spinning of an event to suit the president's re-election campaign. >> i remember the left's attack on bush in iraq was bush lied. people tdied. here, people died, and obama's people lied. they lied about what was at the core of what happened that night. it turns out that the state department knew pretty much that night it w

that's where we launched the raid that took down osama bin laden. he will pull out capability in afghanistan, not negotiate a stay behind agreement. that's stupid. it's unwise and will e enforce the notion, we're weak and have a leader that doesn't understand u.s. obligations and comments around the world and not prepared to act on them. >> mr. vice president, you said stupid and unwise and i agree with your assessment but does it mean the president only ended a war and didn't win it when he should have been in it to win it? >> absolutely. >> you agree with that? >> i do. >> let me -- we're in the sixth year of the obama presidency and i can't believe it but there is still an obsession to blame the bush cheney administration in this case about the va scandal. now, i want you to listen to nan nancy pelosi, president obama in 2008, 9, '10, '11 and '13, how he would help veterans but here is what she said based on this scandal. >> sees the ramifications of some seeds sewn along time ago when you have two wars over a long period of time and many, many,

raid that killed osama bin laden.se was to collect money from people where it was believed that osama bin laden was living and the public health schools have been concerned about the vaccination program and they wrote a letter to president barack obama about it. >>> two cars were destroyed in a suspicious early morning fire and they have been tar getted before. >>> also another one, it involved a high school student and what we are hearing from the girl's grieving mother. >>> good news from the santa cruz mountains, some crowded news, we will run it all down for you straight ahead. >>> it is a cool one, there is some rain and snow and we will take aim i will tell you which one. ♪ ♪ [ barks ] whoo! mmm! ♪ ♪ oh, yeah [ whistling ] [ male announcer ] discover your new orleans. start exploring at followyournola.com. [ woman ] and i love new orleans! . >>> it has been a frightening morning for a san jose family, their cars were set on fire, it was all caught on cameras, we will show it to you. >>> complete bay area news co

i think it's a good contrast to think about we're so glad what was done to get osama bin laden, but here we have four americans killed by a terrorist attack in the line of duty. occurred over seven hours. people have so many questions. just tell us what happened. >>vitor in the situation room. senator, nice to see you. >> good to be with you. >> you paid for this one. a government employee downloading and watching porn. that's pornography at work for up to six hours a day. did he get fired? nope. in fact, you paid him a bonus. a stunning look inside our government agency next. >>> also, this is definitely not oprah's book club. a school meeting about a controversial and racy book getting heated. one father got dragged out in handcuffs. that story coming up. ♪ ♪ if you ask me about did you ever have chickenpox? 1 in 3 people will get shingles in their lifetime. guess which one i was. or how ornate the halls are. tall the building is it doesn't matter if thereare g, or big mahogany desks. whenorking with an investment firm, what's really important is wther the peoe behiintroducing e schwab

i think it's a good contrast to think about we're so glad what was done to get osama bin laden, but here we have four americans killed by a terrorist attack in the line of duty. occurred over seven hours. people have so many questions. just tell us what happened. >>vitor in the situation room. senator, nice to see you. >> good to be with you. >> you paid for this one. a government employee downloading and watching porn. that's pornography at work for up to six hours a day. did he get fired? nope. in fact, you paid him a bonus. a stunning look inside our government agency next. >>> also, this is definitely not oprah's book club. a school meeting about a controversial and racy book getting heated. one father got dragged out in handcuffs. that story coming up >>> this is a fox news alert. wisconsin governor scott walker wins, then loses, at least sort of loses. momeabouts ago, the seventh circuit court of appeals issuing a temporary ruling on a secret investigation. mike lowe is live with the story. mike, what is going on there? >> well, good evening, greta. this has been almost a whiplash

osama bin laden killed 3,000 americans on 9-11. we went in there with very, very good sound reason.n very successful at this point. it is unwise and it will reinforce the notion that we have a leader who doesn't understand leadership and commitments around the world. snoi den giving an interview saying he wants to come back to the u.s. he claims he was a spy and he was serving his country. he thinks he's a patriot. >> it doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country. >> secretary of state john kerry says a patriot wouldn't run away and he should come back to the u.s. >> the marine sitting in a mexican prison fires his attorney just minutes before his first hearing. this morning the veteran still behind bars. he arrived in a mexican court flashing a brief smile to the cameras. he faces charges after crossing the mexican border with three guns in his car. the change in teams changes his testimony because they knew lawyers were not ready to answer questions. his mother says the attorney was fired because he en

he was the son of osama bin laden and a senior member of al qaeda. he was the voice and face of al qaeda in the days and weeks after the 9/11 attacks. in both cases, while it may have taken more than a decade as a result of our integrated approach to combatting terrorism, these men were brought to justice. these cases are just to two most recent in a long line of successful criminal prosecutions of terrorist offenses. we took the lessons we learned from counter terrorism and applied them to our work on national security cyber threats. in the face of escalating threats we recognize the feed to reorganize and integrate. when i was chief of staff to director muller at the fbi we undertook a transformation there to meet the same growing cyber threat. in 2011 we brought that approach to nsd. in late fall of 2011, ten years after 9/11, we established a review group to evaluate nsd's work on national security threats and chart out a plan for future threats. six months later, that team issued recommendations that shaped what nsd's national security cyber pro

and he killed osama bin laden. this was quite an effective foreign policy. think the mixed signals that started coming from the syrian he did it very well in the first semester and trying to get back into shape in the second semester. >> david? time, there is rational, sensible, sober case to be made about how he's behaved. mine here from allies all the time that they worry about america's commitment. is movingthat america to bls dispensable nation. >> it seems to me that this -- it is ever present in his mind. , i don'tces priority think it's a bad goal. i don't think this is a fighting to try to create more bandwidth and focus on the domestic agenda. jobs,e economy, growing infrastructure. he is constantly fighting that battle to try to preserve more bandwidth for a domestic agenda. the world doesn't always cooperate. the u.s. has this indispensable role to play. that.'t not step up to title on thee council of foreign relations is very much an obama position. i think presidents are partly the product of what came before. reagan's presidency was built on th

and '90s - what is going on there with al qaeda affiliates is what is similar to what gave rise to osama bin laden in al qaeda. >> i think that's right. you have a sectarian conflict with a charge component of islamic extremists flying under the flag. you have a conflict and they gravitate towards conflict. you have no governance where they established sanctuary. they crossed over into iraq and took fallujah and western iraq. they are starting to hold territory, building infrastructure, have training bases, attracting 10,000 foreign fighters to their flag. 1500 estimated from europe to the united states. they have western passports. 1990s. >> it's a big concern. >> you think the future is special operations forces fighting all over the world drones. >> it's not just special operations forces. it's the tip of the spear. this is a multi operational unit. within 24 hours of the westgate mall attack, doing for instancics of that scene, trying to identify the attackers, that goes into the national counterterrorism center, where it's put into an intelligence pile that says "we know who the guys ar

. >> al qaeda is on the path to defeat and osama bin laden is it. >> less thanan a week later fou americans lay dead in benghazi. an attack all the more shockingt because it came on 9-11 the administration blamed a youtube video. >> they were in reaction to a video. it is no reason to suggest it was a preplanned attack. >> it was t challenged those wh know the general monitored the r attack in real time. >> this is no demonstration gone terribly wrong. >> long ago he dismissed the benghazi controversy of the side ship. now the court ordered release of white house e-mails and the news that there will likely be selection house committee to t investigate what happenedhe to benghazi. >> it is disturbing and perhaps criminal. >> i am bret baierer from the washington, d.c. newsroom.ght, tonight fox news reporting benghazi has a white house us coverup finally been revealed? we start with a stunning new a development on capitol hill pm chief washington correspondent james rosen with thelatest. >> goodd evening house speaker announced they will vote to create a special select house committee to inve

he was in the situation room when osama bin laden was caught. but when we have an attack on our can embassy and an american ambassador was killed, this was an election year, his attack on terrorists osama bin laden was successful, they didn't want another terrorist attack on september 11th, this happened in benghazi, there was definitely some coverup or some situation where you send out ununited nations ambassador susan rice and yet she's given these talking points, we know, anyone out there you could clearly say this was a are terrorist attack. she -- this was a terrorist attack. for the house treebles go forward and have the -- the house republicans to go forward and have this select committee is very important. >> but they all got their information, initially, from a cia report. >> michael -- >> listen, i'm not saying the information was right. i'm you saying that's where three got the information. it caims from the intelligence. the -- came from the intelligence, the bureau that was responsible for the initial response to the attacks, wherev

she says in death, osama bin laden was treated better than many of the children at the trade center site. his remains were treated with respect. they were washed and covered with a cotton cloth, and he was swept into the sea peacefully. contrast that with the 9/11 victims and their remains the urn identified remains. a pay as you go mow seem. in a basement underyoung area, that has been deemed to be a flood zone a. who would have ever have picked that for our loved ones? so osama bin laden got treated better than our unidentified victims. >> the city is says it con sacramentoed the faultily members, five of them that sit on the 9/11 board, but they say look there are 2700 people that lost and they are calling for a vote. they don't want them to go into what hi called a bar numb and bailey circus. >> all we ask for is to have a vote of the family, the 2700 families let's see what they wanted. above grade, in a memorial with a light where it is open to the public, free of charge. or in a revenue generating tourist attraction. >> why the still moves the remains, there will be a protest by t

we do remember that the world find osama bin laden, and find people we want to find and we can find the girls and bring them home. >> tuesday, nigeria said they were willing to net with boko haram. should the government do that, does not that negotiation risk encouraging more kidnappings than this one. >> i always said you don't negotiate on the bodies of women somehow. i call this as a proxy war. >> they might have an issue. we don't know about the issue of the government. could you imagine those young girls, what they have done. just asking for their rights, their rights to go, to get educated. their rights to contribute to africa as a nation, as a consequent. they were demanding the right to be educated, and what they get was to be kidnapped. i think that for me the first thing - dialogue can happen, but those people need to know that there is no impunity. but if they know that today they have done this, and the next day if they do it they will be brought to justice and to trial and to be punished. i think it will be stopped. to boko haram, it may make sense to them, but send, as i s

. >> osama bin laden is no more. >> new analysis concludes that boko haram gained strength between 2010 and 2012 by training and receiving money from al qaeda affiliates in north and east africa. if pressure grows, it's likely to draw on its network, in britain. while mr. obama conceded today that the affiliates cannot be left uncheck at the same time he minimized the domestic threat. >> this lessens the possibility of large scale attacks like 9/11 against the homeland but it heightens the dangers overseas. >> it's creating the ungoverned space where al qaeda's followers can plot locally than globally. >> the threat from al qaeda is greater today than it is when president obama took office. it has led to this increased risk from al qaeda in america today. >> the president's strategy is to help build regional forces with american backing. many governments are too weak to carry out the mission or simply lack the will. >>> stocks were down today. the dow lost 42, the s&p 500 fell back two, the nasdaq 12. >>> the marine who landed in a mexican jail. >>> fox 25 in boston with the murder arra

it belies their whole narrative that the president himself had just said a few days before that osama bin laden is dead, general motors is alive, the war on al qaeda is almost over. everything, all the tragic events of that evening of september 11th undercut that. so the combination of ideology and political reality drive to this cover-up, and there can't be any argument anymore that's what it is. that's why we need more information. we've got a lot that's come out because of this request. there's a lot more there. there's no doubt about it. >> well, what should happen? you know, now that we have this e-mail, that by the way, should have been handed over to the congressional oversight and reform committee and wasn't. they stonewalled just as they did in "fast and furious" but now that the judicial watch, and we'll speak to someone from judicial watch, has gotten that e-mail, we expect that many more will be coming. what happens for not handing out this information? is there a sanction or do we just say, oh, that's the way it's done? >> well, i think it's going to be hard to impose penalti

the midst of political pump, the president promised -- >>> al qaeda is on the path to defeat and osama bin laden is dead. >> less than a week later, four americans lay dead in benghazi. an attack all the more shocking because it came on 9/11. the administration immediately blamed a youtube video for the murders. >> these protests were in reaction to a video. we have no information to suggest that it was a preplanned attack. >> that assertion was soon challenged by those in a position to know. as a former general who monitored the attack in real time, reiterated in testimony just this week. >> this was no demonstration gone terribly awry. >> the president dismissed the controversy as a part san political side show. but now the news that there were likely be a select house committee to investigate what happened in benghazi suggest a different story. >> it is disturbing and perhaps criminal. >> good evening. i'm bret baier from our washington, d.c. newsroom. tonight, fox news reporting, benghazi. has a white house coverup been revealed? we start with breaking news. a stunning new development.

so, osama bin laden, the net work, al-qaeda, has had these types of contacts throughout africa. africa is overwhelmed and becoming more overwhelmed every day by islamic jihad and by jih jihadis, so we knew it, yes. >> doesn't explain why then mrs. clinton would not have design e designated them as a terrorist organization at a time when she was being urged to do so. >> anyone that can answer that is her. like you, it makes no sense. we do not understand. we know what they were doing. we know they were volatile. we know they were doing the same things then as they are today. slaughtering innocent men, women and children and yet, she refeezed, hillary clinton, refused to put them on the terrorist watch list. so, but it took us years to get the mek off the terrorist watch list they were put on wii bill clinton. nek of course is an ally in helping us, we couldn't get them off of the watch list, but they would not put true terrorists, we have pictures of them slaughtering men, women and children, we couldn't get them on that watch list. the only one that can answer that is hillary cl

so osama bin laden got treated better than our own identified victims. >> the city said it consultedhe families but what it means by that is the five families that sit on the board, and many of these other families that there are 2700 families that lost loved one including jim ritchie's here. he is a former fire chief, and his son jimmy died he found his remains nine months later. he says they really don't want these to be in what amount to a theme park. >> all we ask for is to have a vote of the family, the 2700 families let's see what they want. above grade, in a memorial with an eternal light, where it is open to the public, free of charge, or in a revenue generating tourist attraction. >> so they are calling for a vote in the meantime, guys protests will begin on saturday, continue on the 15th when the memorial opens and on the twenty-first. they have written to president obama but some of the moments there today said they have to spend their mother's day weekend, protesting outside the location, where unidentified that they suspect many of them are part of their family will be m

centralars after the intelligence agency used a public health campaign to track down osama bin laden in pakistan, the white house says the cia will no longer use vaccination programs as cover for spying operations. complaints from top u.s. medical officials welcomed by the world health organization's. the taliban have targeted polio vaccination workers and there has been a resurgence of the disease there. thank you for coming. do we know when the cia actually stopped? >> what we know from the cia is when john brandon made the decision, he made the decision in august of 2013, 8 months after those public health deans wrote a letter to president obama urging an end to this practice. >> if they haven't been doing it for a year and a half and we are still having workers killed, it suggests it has become part of the fabric of pakistani conspiracy theories? even before this broke about the cia using a doctor as a covert operative, they planted, nurtured, and exploited rumors about western backed health projects, that these are sterilization campaigns, tools of spy craft and added a whole a

a congressional committee did not find osama bin laden. barack obama found osama bin laden.e bush didn't find him, barack obama did. and the cia, the state department, the defense department under barack obama are going to find the people that were responsible for benghazi, not a select committee. this is simply an assault on hillary clinton and they will use it and use it and use it. >> do you think that's what it is? is it being driven by trying to go after hillary clinton? >> totally. they don't have a candidate who can measure up in the polls. they know that. secretary clinton is the hands-on -- odds-on favorite to be president. >> but when you speak to your colleagues, who are -- and there are colleagues of yours across the aisle, republican members of the house who are really spending a lot of time on the issue of benghazi, do you think they're faking it? do you think they really believe that there was -- i mean it seems to me it's hard to figure out whether this is driven by people trapped in a kind of media bubble in which they are just reading stuff that is confirmi

. >> don't forget this was prior, prior to osama bin laden being taken down.iscussion was is president obama going into the reelection soft on terror or not? a lot of people are saying -- it was >> stephen: tonight, a big step forward in fu gun rights, though you may want to take a step back. a new monument goes up in oklahoma city. this be pretty creative in the way they name their cities. my guest is show business legend bette midler. skidmore college is offering a course on miley cyrus. it's not that easy there's a lot of home twerk. it's the "colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central

the last one in 2012, came exactly a year after osama bin laden was killed. >> i want t go back now to the va scandal. what's the latest on the situation coming from the white house? >> the president's aids traveling with him on air force one say the scandal over veterans having to wait for medical care and the va hiding the time they had to wait did not play a role in the timing of this visit, but it did, the visit, that is, did provide a positive background for the president after a week of negative press reports. the secretary announced this weekend that some va facilities will be sending vets to private doctors for care, that's something they already did, to the tune of about $4.8 billion a year and some critics say it's something they could have increased much earlier than now. >> wendell, thank you very much for that flag report. >>> meanwhile as wendell just reported, the president ask -- after mr. obama took office in may of 2009, the number of troops surpassed 50,000 as fighting intensified. in december of that year, the president gave the pentagon the authority to deploy up t

it comes three years after they staged a fake program in the hunt for osama bin laden. the pakistani doctor who helped to run the campaign has been jailed for 33 years. the lawyer representing him recently quit the case because of death threats. >>> safety official s are lookig into whether a switch in kitty litters may be blame for a ra radiation leak. 57 barrels were packed with organic kitty litter at the los alamos lab thought to cause a heat reaction and radiation release. the lab has taken a series of measures to make sure the barrels pose no significant risk to the public. >>> all right. time now to get the late nest sports. look who is here. good morning. >> let's get started with the nba and thunder versus spurs. san antonio going into the game winless against oklahoma city all season. tim duncan hits down low scoring two of the spurs' 66 points. tony parker did his part with that right there. that layup. five spurs scoring in double digits but russell westbrook and kevin durant pushed back but it's not enough 122-105 spurs win the opener. >>> on to the donald

you take the case of osama bin laden's driver. the court members on the jira quitted him of some of the charges and gave him a sentence that many consider quite lenient. perception that the juries are there to do as they're told, is inaccurate. >> karen greenberg, if we look back at the days that we're making some of the insurances that we're making now, the argument was made quite forcefully that bringing just high value detainees, internationally wanted men, and suspected of some of the greatest crimes in recent history, to lower manhattan and trying them there, just exposed new york in a way that was really inexcusable after 9/11. can we take the public and the public sentiment out of this equation and just do what black-and-white letter law and the book says, or do we have to consider how new yorkers feel and the way americans feel about this? >> you know, i'm not sure that new yorkers or americans have been given the chance to go on record about whether or not they think that the 9/11 trial could have or should have happened