common enemy. u.s. had decided they would act. to that extent, they were following a policy of their own. however, their policy violated the sensitivities of pakistan. our sovereignty has been violated. to that extent, it doesn t go well with pakistani, the people of pakistan. president obama had said on the campaign trail in 2008 he would be prepared to go in alone to get osama bin laden if they knew where he was in pakistan. he did just that. musharraf denies having any knowledge of bin laden s whereabouts when he was president. nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has more about the concerns here in the u.s. about pakistan. reporter: in this sleepy military town only 35 miles from islamabad, bin laden s million dollar compound was a mcmansion with 12 to 18-foot walls topped by barbed wire, dwarfing the neighbors. many of them retired military. there were other red flags, the luxury home eight times the size of nearby houses had no internet
and many questions about the relationship between the united states and pakistan and what brennan called the gutsiest move by a president in recent memory. well, all that obviously is true, but i think that one thing that he said at the end, did you catch it when he said the fact that that mansion, that sort of mcmansion was right there in the middle of that community with, you know, barbed wire all around the top, nobody going in or out basically, no cell phone connections, et cetera, et cetera, he said that raises questions about the situation, about why the isi, if that s such a great intelligence operation over there, and it s supposedly celebrated as an new jersey operation in pakistan, why didn t they pick up on the fact that somewhere in the suburbs bin laden was sitting there rather nicely living well? and i think that s a question all americans tonight are asking. why did not pakistan detect the presence of the word s most wanted criminal and terrorist in their own midst, in
if we can do this without instilling more hatred, more recruitment, we re better off. i think the way the military handled it with the very careful burial at sea of bin laden didn t make the matter any worse and i think this is a very different kind of war. we have to win it with guts and smarts. all right. thank you very much, chris, for sticking around. be sure to watch hardball with chris matthews tonight, more insight and reaction to the killing of osama bin laden. let me fwlibring in general bar mccaffrey. incredible details we have been getting about now the s.e.a.l.s were able to find this compound. it started with aggressive interrogations and it led to a pseudoname of a cuourier who le this special force to the door. osama bin laden albeit a mcmansion in a suburb in pakistan. yeah. well, of course, cia would have been coordinating the intelligence collection effort.
cnn newsroom. let s check in first with chris lawrence live at the pentagon. good morning, chris. reporter: hey, randy. less than 36 hours now to the president s speech. we wanted to take a good hard look at where the military stands right now before the president speaks. when it comes to caring for its troops, what is the military s state of the union? going to answer that question in just a couple minutes. reporter: i m stephanie elam in new york. is owning a mcmansion part of your american dream? you may have a hard time finding one in the next few years. i ll explain. that s coming up in the next hour. reporter: i m brooke anderson at the sundance film festival in park city, utah. in the next hour rosey o donnell tells us about her newest role with oprah winfrey s network and actor and upcoming oscar host james franco reveals to me why all his advisers told him not to host the oscars. thanks to all of you. also ahead, as more and more doors open to education and profess
out as it can be and this i great investment. it goes back to location, location, location. you re not going to find too many golden horseshoes in p potomac area. reporter: now what he s talking about the golden horseshoe is this area here in potomac, maryland, outside of d.c. it s not a closed in suburb, it s farther out, 40 minutes from downtown, but it s an area that is filled with very large mansions from the old mcmansion era. a lot of those are on the market now at reduced prices but he s not concerned about that. he says his buyers are looking for brand new, they don t want to remodel. they have cash to put into the homes and they re not a part of the housing downturn because they are so ultraluxury high end. i have to say, i ve seen stories in greenwich in hamptons, out west, where they re dropping prices on homes like these, even in upwards of $30 million, $40 million range. we ve got the mcmansions in