laden. chris: welcome back to this fox news special. based on my new book, countdown bin laden. in march of 2011. anti-american sentiment was high in pakistan as president obama and his top advisers debated what to do about that compound in abbottabad. they faced 3 big questions, was bin laden there? if so, who was surest and safest way to kill or capture him, and how to deal with the pakistanis. in 2008. then senator and candidate obama was asked, if you had the opportunity to take
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ready to go to alabama to view storm damage. chris: president obama made his decision, the raid was a go. i remember thinking to myself, wow, that is bold decision. i remember saying, bill, i said, i want you to go in. get bin laden and get the hell out. with this weighing on your mind, you had to go to white house correspondent dinner, drink, laugh and pretend nothing was going on in the world, how tough was that. decision was made we should show up for the dinner. if we didn t people would consider that suspicious. i think everyone did a pretty good job of covering up what of going to happen the next day. chris: including the president himself. who took the opportunity to jab someone in the audience.
conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. they were chanting, usa. usa. cia. cia. i never thought i would hear a joyous crowd yelling cia. cia. it was as a moment i ll never forget. chris: what to do with bin laden s body? therefore a plan. we didn t want to bury his body some place ashore. then it would make him a martyr. flown to uss carl vincent. wrapped in white cloth, lowered into sea. following right protocols, we treated him
out bin laden, he was in pakistani territory would you do it. it united states has al qaeda in our sights and pakistan is unwilling or unable to act we should take him out. he was criticized for that. our view, is they were unnoticed. on notice. it was a risk that if we were not to inform the pakistanis, and we re flying in to abbottabad, the center or westpoint, the pakistani westpoint, a military center, an intelligence center. the pakistanis were not our enemy, they were a complicated ally. i knew if seals got on the ground, and pakistanis