failure, high. would rather die than be captured. at the end of the day it was a leap of faith. reporter: friday, april 29th, just after 8:20 a.m., the mission begins. the president gives the go. the president, after a long night s sleep, he basically came in and immediately told his staff you have the green light. let s go. reporter: as president obama departs for the tornado-ravaged south, the u.s. military s best-kept secret is underway. the troops were ready and in place. the equipment was ready to go. the plan had been practiced again and again and again. reporter: america s most-wanted man may finally be in reach, osama bin laden. the architect of 9/11 had eluded the world s most powerful nation for more than a decade. the trail was quite cold. reporter: former cia director michael hayden recalls the early misfires. most of what we had looked many more like elvis sightings rather than substantive intelligence. u.s. intelligence zeroed in on this co
he doesn t know what he s talking about. fascinating discussion with google s executive chairman eric schmidt about the great babble between apple and google. why it matters who will win. here is my take. pakistan s military has been embarrassed, to put it mildly, by the suspicion it must have known where bin laden was hiding. in response it is using its old tricks. hoping to ride out the storm as it has in the past. it is leaking stories to favor right journalists, all with the aim of stoking anti-americanism in pakistan. having been caught in a situation that suggests either complicity with al qaeda or gross incompetence and the realities frontally a bit of both, it is now furiously trying to change the subject. angrily denouncing america for entering the country. pakistani friend put it to me this way. it is like a person caught in bed with another man s wife who is indignant that someone entered his house. the military has also once again been able to stop the civilian
s.e.a.l.s would rather die than be captured. at the end of the day it was a leap of faith. reporter: friday, april 29, just after 8:20 a.m., the mission begins. the president gives the go. the president, after a long night s sleep, basically came in and immediately told the staff, you ve got the green light. let s go. reporter: as president obama departs for the tornado-ravaged south, the u.s. military s best-kept secret is under way. the troops were ready and in place. the equipment was ready to go. the plan had been practiced again and again and again. reporter: america s most wanted man may finally be in reach. osama bin laden. the architect of 9/11 had eluded the world s most powerful nation for more than a decade. the trail was quite cold. reporter: former cia director michael hayden recalls the early misfires. most of what he had looked more like elvis sightings than intelligence. reporter: the trail caught fire last august when u.s. intelligence
gah! [ children shouting ] [ grunts ] [ whacking piñata ] [ whacking piñata, grunting ] you know rheumatoid arthritis means pain. but you may not know it can also mean destruction. not just of your joints, but of the things you love to do. and the longer you live with the aching, swelling, and stiffness, the closer you may be to having your favorite things. taken away from you. but you can take action today. go to ra.com for your free joint profile so you can better talk to your rheumatologist about protecting your joints.