usama bin laden, pretty eye opening. >> it reads like you're getting on an airplane. >> what if something happens to you? >> a lot more coming throughout the day. >> have a great day, we will see you back here tomorrow. ♪ >> the newly declassified documents just released from the compound where usama bin laden was cornered and killed shedding more light on what drove the world's most wanted man. welcome to happening now. >> american navy seals sees the documents as they carried out the daring raid of pakistan four years ago. more than one hundred documents showing communication to and from obama bin laden and his family as well. inside the mind of a terrorist. john: catherine heritage live in washington with what these documents reveal. >> taking the old-fashioned approach and literally going to the document page by page, i am eight documents into the 100 that have been declassified. i have been through this ten page translation and the extent to which usama bin laden was attempting to stay relevant to the al qaeda organization and in many ways that appeared to be micromanaging. that docu

based on what was released today, kind of our government showing difference between what usama bin ladend and what isis is doing right now. bin laden was smart, a figurehead. a little more popular than al-baghdadi. they're more of elitist type group. they like spectacular attacks. they wanted to take down the world trade center in '93. they obviously did it in 2001. they want big stuff, cole, embassy in kenyas. what isis wants to do now, they're more populist. they like the lone wolf stuff. they like to use social media to have people go out and just start a rash of -- bill: terrorize people too. >> yeah. bill: why would u.s. intelligence put out or choose to put out this specific information, rob? >> they're probably putting it out to keep people a little bit aware. some of that stuff obviously when we took the compound down in 2011, we had intelligence analysts all over it. they're aware of it. they will do stuff behind the scenes where like the fbi homeland security monitoring stuff going on. i think right now we're just possibly because there's so batched news coming out of the middl

there was the death penalty on usama bin laden, and i think as a society there are certain crimes that you get your justice, and this is one of them . >> what are we going to hear ortiz? will she give you us details? >> well, i think she's going to say some very nice things to the jurors. they obviously had a long, horrific -- many, many weeks. the bottom line is every legal decision like this, begins human emotion. and these jurors had to feel the vast array of human emotions watching the destruction that took place. they had to feel outraged, disgust, and most of all i think that was directed against the defendant who showed no indication of remorse whatsoever . >> by the way, we've talked before about how the parents of martin richards had lobbied the jury in favor against the death penalty. they were more for a life sentence. however, we just heard from a couple of other

documents in the raid that killed usama bin laden. of the more 100 documents found are a love letter to one of bin laden's wives and notes to his children. there is a job application for would-be terrorists that has typical questions such as what hobbies do you enjoy? do you have a criminal record? applicants are asked if they wish to execute a suicide operation and who should be contacted in case you become a martyr. coming up on "abc7 news at 6:00" -- an air show in annapolis has taken on new meaning. what made this year's performance for the naval academy stand out from years past? plus we tell you when you don't want to be on the road at the start of the memorial day weekend. and what happened to a driver whose truck was washed off a local bridge by floodwaters. doug: i'm doug hill in the weather center. today is beautiful. tomorrow not so much. i tell you what to expect and

laden. >>> he is the man who took out usama bin laden and on the eve of the four year anniversaryave seal team 6 killed usama bin laden rob ekneel visited memorials of victims of the 9/11 in new york. "on the record" griff jenkins was there. >> it's been four years since the heroes of seal team six uttered those words. delivering justice to a grateful nation. today we bring to you this sacred place the 9/11 memorial where the man who killed usama bin laden rob ekneel met with family members who lost so much on september 11th. >> we saw the crowd celebrating when the mission was announced by the president. i know a lot of families did not feel celebratory. there was a sense of remembering the loss again because bin laden was dead but my brother wasn't come home. >> i feel safer because of you and the work your men do and women and just brave. >> there was never a moment of hesitation. never a moment i might not want to do this. for everybody that was there. that's why the team went. the team not only not fear but this needs to happen. we will do this. and we're going to die doing t

now to those documents uncovered at usama bin laden's compound. the information released approximately four years after the 2011 raid that ended with the terror leader's death. here he is in the compound. those documents shedding new light on bin laden's life and how he remained obsessed with attacking americans until the very end. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us with the details. >> thank you, andrea. we're going document by document here at fox and so far they paint a picture of bin laden issuing orders from his compound in pakistan, micromanage together smallest detail and kind of wearing many managerial hats. this document in fact is application to become a suicide bomber, asking the applicant for their history their personal information, and even a emergency contact in the event that at the do become a martyr. another document reviewed by fox shows how paranoid the al qaeda leader had become after more than a decade on the run. and was a $25 million bounty on his head. one of his wives was coming from iran to pakis

it turns out usama bin laden's reading is much closer to the truth it was a further way of enhancing the appeal of radical islam. >> there is a hand back on how to kill us. bin laden handbook. how -- was extraordinary. >> well, there are other documents, i'm still waiting to see more of the later volumes of what we found in the cages -- caves of afghanistan after 9/11 when we overthrew the taliban in al qaeda seeking biological and nuclear weapons. something al qaeda never gave up on and i think the islamic state would like to try and do as well. >> we have got the seal team got bin laden in may of 2011. this is 2015. why are we only getting so few documents? i doctor this few is they can't go through them faster? >> personally speaking as alumnus of the executive branch of government i'm not sure i would release any of these documents for a while. >> why? >> until we have a much better understanding of what's in them and what their imindications are every time we release a document like, this it tells the adversary something that we know. i'm not sure that the advantage of our intere

leon: did the usama bin laden raid really happen as the white house described it or was much of it fabricated to protect relation between u.s. and pakistan? a report by famed journalist tonight has the white house crying foul. senior political reporter scott thuman has the controversial back and forth from the capitol hill bureau. scott, tell us about this. scott: well, as you know, hirsch is well-known for his revealing reports of the decade from torture in iraq to a massacre in vietnam. his newest claim, he alleges it's absurd to think that the world's most wanted terrorist could be living unnoticeed just miles away from a military base in a populated town in pakistan. that is because he says he wasn't hiding at the time. >> that story is riddled with inaccuracies and outright falsehoods. scott: the white house denials in response to many claim by the veteran reporter see mor hirsch to -- seymour hirsch to poke holes in the story of how the white house found usama bin laden. >> no security no air cover no trouble. are you kidding me? scott: among the accusations is it wasn't a hide-out. a f

a former aid to usama bin laden will spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in the 1998 bombings in africa. he was taken into custody shortly after the bombing tanzania was wasn't extradited to the united states until 20712. it killed 2741 people including a dozen -- killed 241 people including a dozen americans. >>> more breaking news. a prominent georgetown rabbi sentenced to more than six years in prison for secretly recording women as they undressed. rabbi barry freundel pleaded guilty to 50 counts of spying on women in a ritual bath outside a synagogue. joce sterman has reaction. jose rabbi freundel -- joce: rabbi barry freundel walked through the door as a free man but that is not how he will leave. after a judge sentenced him to six and a half years in prison. that is 457 days for each of the -- 45 days for each of the 50 counts in the case. though we know there are more than 150 women. in a surprise decision, freundel was immediately taken into custody and that resulted from applause from the women in the audience, not only in the courtroom but in another overflow room wh

refuting claims by perspective journalists that the obama administration lied about the capture of usama bin laden, and specifically we're talking about seymour hirsch. >> right. melissa: morell was saying earlier on "fox & friends," when the president said he would share nothing with pakistan officials, the president even sent me, meaning morell, after the raid to smooth over relations with them because they were absolutely furious. so he is not putting any credibility in what journalist seymour hirsch said about the president lying about the circumstances around what happened to osama bin laden. what do you think? >> i think anybody not medicated or who hasn't disappeared down the rabbit hole of conspiracy is putting any credibility in this. this idea god bless seymour hirsch he has decades and decades of really impressive solid credentials behind him in investigative journalism but this ranks up there with chem trails and holding space aliens at area 51. so i don't know why he decided he was going to go down this rabbit hole. he is citing primarily he is citing a retired, unnamed anonymou

remember when the raid happened and we all saw those images of usama bin laden like the crazy old uncleing videos in the compound. what we see today is a very different picture with the documents that he was kind of like this micromanager wearing different hats like operations hat a policy hat, an h.r. hat. and as you mentioned with this application, this is like a crazy document.

more than 100 documents from usama bin laden compound declassified. they're shedding new light on the mind set of al qaeda's founder and determination to strike the u.s. i'm joined by mike baker former cia covert operations officer. what was the biggest revelation for you in these documents? >> still going through material that's available. from an operational perspective, i look eight it from the timing of it all. you sweep up all the information, whether off of cell phones or computers whatever it may be, when you two in and do a raid like this. immediately you're scrubbing it looking for actionable intelligence, anything operational and anything perishable. this stuff becomes perishable quickly. you start to prioritize. it is three plus years. for me, part of the question was, really? it is interesting timing. dni doesn't turn around say all by himself i'm growing to release those document documents. this doesn't happen that way. so it's a white house decision. which tells me they are looking for good news. melissa: they're saying they want to be t

melissa: new allegations in the cover up of killing of usama bin laden. pulitzer prize-winning journalist seymour hirsch, got to iran with pakistan's help dedespite saying it was all u.s. affair. white house stating there are too many baseless checks to fact check each one. there are astounding allegations, pakistan, basically captured bin laden and holding him since 2006. then they sold him to us. and that is why our navy seal team went in and unopposed. walked in and killed him and took him out. they say his body wasn't buried at sea. judy, what do you think of this. >> two words we can't say on the air. one of them is bull. everyone i know involved in the effort to track and kill bin laden says there is nothing to this story. the person who hirsch quotes is isi former director who left 13 years ago and will say anything to get himself on tv. this is vintage classic seymour hirsch. when he is good he is very good. when he is bad he is awful. this is the awful. melissa: dan, do you think he is selling a book or something? >> he is selling himself. he has

today, former usama bin laden sentenced to life in prison.victed of conspiring the 1988 bombings of the two embassies. the bombings killed 224 people including a dozen americans. and a california man cited for flying a small drone across the street from the white house. is he accused of violating a federal law including flying unmanned vehicles. the secret service detained the man yesterday for flying the zone over lafayette park. and tom brady wants to call nfl commissioner roger goodell as a witness in appeal of his four game suspension. the super bowl winning quarterback was suspended for his role in deflate-gate. the players' union also says it will call the vice president troy vincent who handed down the punishment. and caught on camera, youtube guitarist the edge falling off the stage during a concert in vancouver. don't worry the guitarist okay. the edge even joking that he didn't see the edge of the stage. go off the record for a minute. i know as you know i can be a dog on a bone about a story never giving up. i do it out of professi

edward snowden the journalist who scored interviews with several senior al qaeda leaders including usama binccusation has this incoming professor at boston university crossed a line. recent tweets from sid grundy, a sociology professor shows obvious bias against white people. one tweet says why is white america so reluctant to identify white college males as a problem population? another quote says white masculinity is the problem for america's colleges. the school is standing by this professor saying she is exercising her free speech. and going airborne, caught on camera, a mexican soldier flung nearly 1100 feet in the air by a giant flag during a military parade. he spins wildly in the air before hitting the ground as you can see. witnesses say his rifle got caught on the flag's fabric. fractured his ankle and suffered a mild concussion. other than that, i'm sure it's okay. >> it could have been' a lot worse. >> can you do spinny things anymore? >> i don't know. that's unbelievable. >> no way. >> yank he was worried about. >> no. i can handle it. >> i can't even look at the details without