night bin laden was killed. so they signed a contract with bin laden in the final months of his life, essentially saying, you know, we re leaving. and good luck. the compound was actually in the name of one of the bodyguards. it was not registered to bin laden so this posed a big problem for him. not only did he need to get new bodyguards but find a new hideout in the months before he was killed. so he was quite anxious about the fact his carefully constructed hideout was disappearing. i think one of the most interesting things as it pertains to now heaand reading through the book is that you went through all these documents and elements as it pertains to the taliban and al qaeda s relationship with iran. can you walk me through top line where you landed? because there s been a lot of questions about both. even now. this many years later. yeah, well, of course, the premise of the long-running
called were in this order george walker bush and then bill clinton because he knew at some level both men had tried to actually kill bin laden and had been unable to do it. reporter: public reaction a year ago may not have been as solemn as the phone calls sound. it is nonetheless true that bin laden s death was greeted then across party lines as a matter of justice, not politics. candy crowley, cnn, washington. top of the hour. i m suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed. a witness to robert kennedy s assassination says there was a second gunman. nina says her claim was overlooked back in 1968 and that someone altered the testimony she gave. but she remembers it vividly. i can hear the rhythm of the gunshots in my head, and i know first i thought it was flash bulbs. it was pop, pop and then pop, pop, pop, very rapid fire to my right in back of senator kennedy. convicted assassin sirhan sirhan is asking a court to release him from prison or give him a new tria
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1990 there were about 60 million less people living in the u.s. so when you have a weather disaster now, there are more people that are going to be in harm s way or potentially in the path of any type of a storm so the costs are going to go up. finally tuscaloosa, that was a big focus but how is the rebuilding there going? it is going as well as can be expected. the community has come together. you see that time and time again how people really take care of each other. but the resources are so thin. the mayor, when i was there, he said the morning we left, he said we need you guys to stay here as long as possible. we need the attention in order to for people to realize that they still need the help that. night bin laden was captured and all of the attention was immediately off of it and a few weeks later joplin happens and then we forget about each one of these places. but it will take them years and years to recover. over 50 people killed in that community. amazing how much mo