propaganda is one thing. what leads you to believe he is operationally in control because that is something different than we ve believed in the past several years. we re just at the front of this, david. i m not going to say anything i really haven t had a chance to study at this point. we ve just going through this large cache of information. we ll learn as we go along. we ll have hopefully information about our ability to tactically and strategically defeat al-qaeda, but if we have anything, we ll act on this. but it is important that osama bin laden, and i can tell you this by an initial look at this material, had an active role as director which made our role sunday night all the more important to our goal which is a strategic defeat of this operation. you said there were other tapes released as well, bin laden making addresses one purportedly to the united states that he had prepared. based on what do you say he was still calling the shots for al-qaeda? because
osama s death and the intelligence behind him vindicate the bush administration s counter-terror policies. with us the cia in the bush administration, michael hayden, michael chernoff, and rudy giuliani. finally the political impact, the ultimate commander in chief for obama. is it a game changer for 2012? the first republican field holds its first debate. our round table votes in. bob woodward, presidential historian, doris kearn goodwin. and political strategist, mike murphy. from nbc news in washington, meet the press with david gregory. good morning. the raid on the compound in abbottab abbottabad, pakistan, provided a treasure troef of data, showing that bin laden had remained highly active in directing al-qaeda in the decade since 9/11. among some of the items released yesterday afternoon, five videotapes, never before seen images of bin laden, giving practices to the american people, and one showed a bearded bin laden huddled under a blanket flipping through what
michael chernoff, and rudy giuliani. finally the political impact, the ultimate commander in chief for obama. is it a game changer for 2012? the first republican field holds its first debate. our round table votes in. bob woodward, presidential historian, doris kearn goodwin. and political strategist, mike murphy. from nbc news in washington, meet the press with david gregory. good morning. the raid on the compound in abbottab abbottabad, pakistan, provided a treasure troef of data, showing that bin laden had remained highly active in directing al-qaeda in the decade since 9/11. among some of the items released yesterday afternoon, five videotapes, never before seen images of bin laden, giving practices to the american people, and one showed a bearded bin laden huddled under a blanket flipping through what appeared to be news footage of himself on television. the audiotapes were not released to the u.s., so as not to spread any more to america. tom donald. good to see y
tom donald. good to see you. thank you. good to be here. from this raid, we referenced the videos just a moment ago. a couple points on that. first of all, as you know, the forces, when they went in sunday night, obviously took out osama bin laden but also gathered up all the material they could for exploitation by intelligence services, first point. second is the scale of what we ve got here. this is the largest cache of intelligence derived from them. we see him looking at images of himself on screen. where is that actually happening and when? do you have any idea? i don t have any idea with respect to the timing that i can share with you, but let me say something about it. point one, it indicates to us that in addition to being the leader of al-qaeda, he was director of operations, including propaganda efforts, obviously. propaganda is one thing. what leads you to believe he is operationally in control because that is something different than we ve believed in
longer. he should know how it breaks at the hole. these two go back so far. they met in the south carolina state amateur, back in 1998. lucas beat him. also beat d.j. trahan on the way to the title. lucas with an emotional acceptance speech dedicated to the victory to his grandfather. that had a huge impact on his career. here we go. needing to make this to play any kind of pressure certainly would change things here. look where you have to aim it. nick: my goodness. it is going to be an s-bender. right to left and left to right. jim: such a good putt. but it will be a 5. two-putts to win. nick: lucas will definitely go left to right. jim: he has been the best putt nert field all week long. he has shown it on a number of occasions today. he hasn t all week suffered a three-putt. all that he needs is two-putts all that he needs is two-putts to win. wiffed it. my goodness. jim: i know it wasn t easy. you can see how much bend there was to it. but it is a bit shocking to s