his criticism against president obama s foreign policy, and on national security. and the self-serving and tone-deaf republican criticism, which i include that with, comes in spite of the president s remarkable successes in both areas of defense and national security over the past few months, including launching the dramatic raid that killed osama bin laden. roger simon is chief political columnist of the politico and evan cohn is an nbc news terrorist analyst. roger, thank you for joining us and thank you for that column this morning, which inspired me to think about what you were thinking. and that s this strange world. i want you both to see this now. here s a montage, as we say on tv, of the president announcing all these various successes i mentioned. as a reminder, all of these events have taken place in just the past half year. let s listen. tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin lad
which i include that with, comes in spite of the president s remarkable successes in both areas of defense and national security over the past few months, including launching the dramatic raid that killed osama bin laden. roger simon is chief political columnist of the politico and evan cohn is an nbc news terrorist analyst. roger, thank you for joining us and thank you for that column this morning, which inspired me to think about what you were thinking. and that s this strange world. i want you both to see this now. here s a montage, as we say on tv, of the president announcing all these various successes i mentioned. as a reminder, all of these events have taken place in just the past half year. let s listen. tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. earlier this morning, anwar al awlaki, the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, was killed in yemen.
senator frank lautenberg calls him the king of liars. we ll ask him what he means by that. and mr. president, you re on the air. president obama joined our colleague michael smerconish yesterday on his radio show today. to talk about the economy, and efforts to restrict voting rights. michael smerconish joins us later. finally, let me finish tonight with a night millions say they ll never forget. we start with another victory for president obama on the war on terrorism. edward collins is a terrorist analyst. and richard wolffe is an msnbc analyst. how did we get him? we got him because of the fact after months of tracking this individual, after months of firing missiles at him fruitlessly, we got the right opportunity. there was a meeting that was taking place, it was not near a major populated zone, there wasn t the threat of civilian casualties, and it worked out. it was the right time and the right place. but there was a lot of work and there were a lot of failed efforts tha
along with the big-name democrats in his state. senator frank lautenberg calls him the king of liars. president obama genuined our colleague, michael smerconish, on his radio show today. michael smerconish joins us later. finally, let me finish tonight with a night millions say they ll never forget. we start with another victory for president obama on the war on terrorism. edward collins is a terrorist analyst. how did we get him? we got him because of the fact after months of tracking this individual, after months of firing missiles at him fruitlessly, we got the right opportunity. there was a meeting that was taking place, it was not near a major populated zone, there wasn t the threat of civilian casualties, and it worked out. it was the right time and the right place. but there was a lot of work and there were a lot of failed efforts that led into this. how safer are we today, because we got him?
roger cressey is an nbc terrorist analyst. gentlemen, i don t want to get partisan on this. but let s go to this bin laden treasure. is the cia and those putting this stuff out about him, are they doing a little ci-ops here, the grandfather with white hair as a yesterday s man, and at the same time portray him as they continue to overseer and director of the worst kind of planning in the world. they don t seem to mesh those two. are they sending out different messages there with the same facts? well, there is ci-ops. but the agency is trying to replace the narrative of the conventional wisdom that bin laden was not attached, was not engaged. he clearly was, although he took