relief. reporter: relief? yes. reporter: the pakistani government is trying to emphasize that last comment, they are trying to say they are cooperating between the united states, and also afghanistan in fighting terrorism. the foreign ministry tonight admitting that they did feed information to the united states about that compound north of here starting in 2009. the problem it is according to e united states usama bin laden could have been there since 2005. martha: greg thank you very much. we are also getting new warnings on growing security concerns across the country here at home. federal agencies have been put on alert in terms of worries that bin laden s death could drive extremists to retaliate. we cannot become complacent. the fight is far from over. just yesterday i ordered the department s prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to be find
objective was to dismantle and eventually defeat al qaeda. getting osama bin laden was have much a part of that plan. about it am not the only part. as john brennan and others have said, the president has said, we are continuing the fight against al qaeda. every day. and the focus of that operation of the u.s. personnel in afghanistan is on al qaeda. the operation continues, the july 2011 transition date remains have much in place. the pace of that drawdown will be determined by conditions on the ground. final question. are there plans to release video or images? i don t have updates on that accept to echo what john brennan said this morning. we made a great deal available to the public in a remarkable
in terms of pakistan. some of the senators, bob corker for one has been very outspoken about what he wants to understand and the details of what pakistan knew about this compound. there is different dates that have been tossed out there, that they raided the compound in 2003. how will you pursue that? and what do you need to know to be satisfied in terms of what pakistan knew and when they knew it? i am concerned about what s going on with respect to pakistan. and we have to improve that relationship. clearly. you know, it comes down to two issues, as far as i m concerned. either they were cooperating with al qaeda or osama bin laden or they missed this big time. and i hope that it s the latter. because we need pakistan in order for us to be effective in fighting terrorism and going after al qaeda and also our mission in afghanistan.
his eye off afghanistan and usama bin laden and got us into iraq and he was distracted by iraq, one of the things barack obama said was he was going to find and bring osama bin laden to justice. and he s done it in a little over two years which is something george bush couldn t do in seven. that is not to say that this was an easy thing to do. it s to say he kept his eye on the ball, just as he kept his eye on the ball on the economy, healthcare, the big trouble that the republicans have with this. the tropbld trump people are saying they won t even say he s dead until they see a long form certificate. martha: there is no credible republican suggesting what you re alleging. he did keep his high on the ball and made an important decision in catching usama bin laden and
so i think, though, we have pakistan in a situation where we hopefully can reset our relationship. they don t look good right now. one way or another, they don t look good right now. and i think let me ask you this. jay carney just said, and this is clear to everybody. it s a complicated relationship. there are different factions within the government and within the isi in pakistan that may have known things that others left hand might not have known what the right hand was doing. if you were to find out that the government in pakistan was aware he was there, what would you want to recommend in terms of action and our relationship with pakistan? we can t walk away from it, because we won t do not want to hurt the united states in our ability to fight terrorism or our ability to do our mission? afghanistan. but we have leverage farce money we have given to afghanistan. when we had the problem with the flood and the earthquake, we were there.