any president would make that call. but, when you were a candidate in 2008, as i was, and i said if i got bin laden in our sights, i would take that shot. you said we shouldn t move heaven and earth to get one man. and you said we should ask pakistan for permission. and if we had asked pakistan permission, we would not have gotten him. it was worth moving and heaven and earth to get him. after we killed bin laden, i was at ground zero for a memorial and talked to a young woman who was four years old when 9/11 happened. and the last conversation she had with her father was him calling from the twin towers saying peyton, i love you and i will always watch over you. and for the next decade, she was haunted by that conversation. and she said to me, you know, by finally getting bin laden, that brought some closure to me. and when we do things like
mission. we re now under 285. reporter: obama brusquely dismissed romney as a clueless neophyte in national security. well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. reporter: country after country, crisis after crisis they slugged it out. the president offered a dramatic contrast. when i came into office, the world was divided. iran was resurgent. iran is at its weakest point economically, strategically, militarily than since than in many years. when it comes to going after osama bin laden, you said well any president would make that call. but when you were a candidate in 2008 as i was, i said if i got bin laden in our sights, i would take that shot. you said we shouldn t move heaven and earth to get one man. reporter: mitt romney tried to undermine the president s osama bin laden triumph with a blunt line. i congratulate him on taking out osama bin laden and going after the leadership in al qaeda, but we can t kill
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dismissed romney as a clueless neophyte in national security. well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. reporter: country after country, crisis after crisis they slugged it out. the president offered a dramatic contrast. when i came into office, the world was divided. iran was resurgent. iran is at its weakest point economically, strategically, militarily than since than in many years. when it comes to going after osama bin laden, you said well any president would make that call. but when you were a candidate in 2008 as i was, i said if i got bin laden in our sights, i would take that shot. you said we shouldn t move heaven and earth to get one man. reporter: mitt romney tried to undermine the president s osama bin laden triumph with a blunt line. i congratulate him on taking out osama bin laden and going
when it comes to going after bin laden you said any president would make that call, but when you were a candidate in 2008, as i was, i said if i got bin laden in our sights, i would take that shot. you said we shouldn t move heaven and earth to get one man and we should ask pakistan for permission. if we asked pakistan for permission we wouldn t have gotten him. we ve been watching ohio as the key state. let s take a look. you brought up something after the debate. let s watch what happened in the debate when the president cornered his challenger on the issue of opposing the auto rescue. i m a son of detroit. i was born in detroit. my dad was head of car company. i like american cars. i would do nothing to hurt the u.s. auto industry. my plan to get the industry on its feet when it was in real trouble was not to start writing checks.