announced candidate's past, charges of hypocrisy and where he fits into the growing field of contenders. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." two weeks after the death of osama bin laden we've learned u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s who stormed the compound and killed him had cameras on their helmets. while we've been showing you an animated version of what likely happened that night, u.s. officials now are studying actual digital recordings of the raid. our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is here in "the situation room" to talk about this. what do we know about these recordings? >> the first thing, wolf, a military official is telling us that it's hazy. it's extremely dark. so don't go in there expecting to see movie quality here. but what it does do is it puts you in the shoes of the actual s.e.a.l.s as they were going through this assault. he says basically when you look at this video, it's basically going to be a training tool for the s.e.a.l.s to be able to go in and actually put themselves back in that moment and see what they did right and what they did wrong. any actual video of osama bin laden would have been very quick because again every time their head moves, the camera moves. he says the video is very shaky and hazy. >> we also are now learning that u.s. officials, authorities have had access to the wives, the surviving wives of bin laden. what do we know about that? >> troo, access, but not the kind they wanted. u.s. officials wanted to interview these three women separately so they could see if there were discrepancies in the stories. they got all three together with pakistani officials in the room. only one of the wives, the oldest spoke for all three. they say right now it was a hostile interview, the women were not forthcoming. overall, right now it looks like they don't know much, haven't got much from it. the pakistanis say they'll get a chance to talk to them again. we're also learning fascinating new details about the way bin laden communicate friday the compound in pakistan with supporters. >> without getting picked up, with no e-mail address. he would type out directives and dump it on a thumb drive and give to his courier. the courier would take it outside to a cut-out. the other man, the third party would be cut out of the loop. he didn't know he was getting something from bin laden. that man would download it, send out the e-mail. when they wanted information back, they would reverse the process all the way back. but, wolf, we're also hearing that because of this extensive support network and this ability to stay connected that osama bin laden may have gotten a little complacent. when you look at it, he stayed in that compound for five years. it looks like he had no escape plan when the s.e.a.l.s got there and no way to destroy all that material that he had when they were in there. and, of course, we now know there were only three adult men in the compound along with bin laden. >> must have gotten cocky after all those years. chris lawrence, thanks very much. while the raid yielded a trove of terror teefrl, it also may have inadvertently leaked some of america's top military technology. this is a very sensitive part of the story. cnn's brian todd is working this part of the story. what's going on. >> we're learning incredible new detail on the stealth helicopters used in the bin laden raid. there are new concerns that some of that technology may soon fall into the hands of the chinese if it hasn't already. in their haste to get out with the body of osama bin laden, navy s.e.a.l.s detonate their disabled helicoptersment one crucial part is left behind, largely intact. the tail rotor assembly left outside the compound's wall where it crashed. pakistani troops were seen hauling it away. now serious concerns that america's chief technological rival will learn key secrets from the wreckage. >> we ought to assume that the chinese are going to get this technology and get it all. >> reporter: former congressman pete hoef stra is certain the pakistanis will share the technology from that tail section with their chose allies, the chinese. >> they'll reverse engineer it, they'll have the latest technology at minimal cost. >> reporter: contacted by cnn, a seen yor pakistani official denied that china approached them for access to the wreckage and said they wouldn't make it available to the chinese. aviation experts say they've never seen this kind of stealth helicopter before. they believe it's a modified black hawk. >> this disk is key to making this such a unique stealth aircraft? >> this disk is unique, this helicopter. what you see is a device with two purposes. one, to reduce the noise from the rotor blades, but secondly, also, to reduce the possibility of it reflecting radar waves back to a missile attack that might be able to go after the helicopter. >> reporter: experts say the sound suppression technology makes distinguishable differences. first, what a standard black hawk helicopter sounds like. this has a rhythmic kind of whoosh-whoosh sound. now we'll show you what a stealth helicopter sounds like from an earlier test program. experts say this sounds a lot more vague. you may not be able to tell whether this is another vehicle entirely or a helicopter. you may not be able to tell whether the helicopter is moving towards you or moving away. >> experts say the small wings, called stabilizers are also unique to this chopper. they're usually at a hard right angle. these are angled off, analysts say, to avoid radar detection. the chinese have a huge interest in this technology. they're developing a stealth fighter jet called the j-20 which they've already test-flown. >> contacted by cnn, a chinese official in washington said he had no information on whether his government has tried to get access to the tail section of that helicopter. u.s. officials clearly worried about that at this point. >> you're also learning new details about when the navy s.e.a.l. helicopter crashed into the wall at the compound. >> that's right. a senior pakistani official says when the helicopter crash landed, local pakistani military units thought it was one of their own assets that crashed. they called all the local bases to see what happened. it wasn't until later they were able to confirm the presence of a foreign aircraft inside pakistan. by that time the s.e.a.l.s could have been long gone. >> thank you, brian. will so-called family values conservatives buy newt gingrich's explanation for his past affairs and divorces. how does the death of osama bin laden change the u.s. standing in the islamic world? i'll ask a journalist and author who has written extensively about the region. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." just days after newt gingrich announced his presidential campaign, he's taking a familiar next step, heading to iowa. he's scheduled to visit 17 towns and cities in that state, the state that holds the first presidential contest of 2012. he'll be taking a good deal of personal baggage with him. joe johns has been looking at gingrich's cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen versal private life. what are you coming up with? there's a lot of baggage that all of our viewers are familiar with. >> that's absolutely true, wolf. political insiders we've spoken to says the former speaker has plenty of obstacles in front of him in the run for the republican nomination. this is only one of them. the question here is whether with this complex marital history he can win the trust of conservatives and evangelical val utes, especially women who say family values matter a lot. newt gingrich's private life has been messy, on his third marriage, two divorces. he's also had affairs. he admits one of those affairs was going on right around the time he, as speaker of the house, was helping impeach then president bill clinton for lying about cheating on his wife with monica lewinsky. at the time gingrich and others accused clinton of trying to hide the truth. >> the most systematic deliberate obstruction of justice coverup in effort to avoid the truth we have ever seen in american history. >> reporter: now the former speaker wants clinton's old job and gingrich is seemingly an open book. he's confessed his cheating, endured a series of excruciating interviews about his private life and spent long hours talking to conservatives, especially in places like iowa about how and why he's a different man. he's talked about it on the christian broadcasting network. >> there's no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately i felt about this country, that i worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate. >> reporter: he even brags about how great this third marriage is with his current wife clal liss that who has been married tore for about a decade. he became a catholic for her. conservatives like rich chand land of the southern baptist convention says the skeletons in his closet have not been cleared out. >> there is an i'm plaquable law of opposition among evangelical women. a large percentage of the men are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and say, okay, he's changed. we believe in forgiveness and redemption. the women say, well, we may forgive him, we believe in redemption, but we don't trust him. >> reporter: rich gayland said a big challenge would come in places like south carolina, where committed evangelicals and other social conservatives have seen plenty of political scandal and don't like it a bit. >> if he wins or loses an important state like, let's say, south carolina but a very little bit, then i think you can say, well, if it hadn't been for that, he would have won. >> reporter: land says gingrich needs to give a speech early on to put the issue to rest. >> he's got to imagine that the person he's talking to is an evangelical woman who is sitting across from him, and he's going to have to convince her he's truly sorry. >> reporter: tough hill to climb for a former speaker of the house with a messy record in marriage. rich galen doesn't think the candidacy will rise or fall on his personal life, but it could be a factor, and some of the other factors include his management style and the question of whether he can actually stay on message. so there's a lot out there. >> a big problem for him. joe, stand by. gloria borger, our senior political analyst is here as well. how does he do that, over come not only the personal stuff but some would argue the gaffs, if you will? he speaks a lot. some of the stuff he says is very intelligent, some not so much. >> everybody you talk to about newt gingrich say he's undisciplined. the problem with gingrich is he has an awful lot of ideas, and some of them are even good, right? but he tends to talk about all of them. i spoke with somebody who used to work with him who said, you know, his problem is that he surrounds himself with people who let him say whatever he wants to say. he needs people around him who can say, you know, newt, you shouldn't talk about that or that, here is the message of our campaign and you need to stick with it. there's a real concern that he just won't be able to do that. >> he also gets bored a little bit, some people say. he gets bored with saying the same thing over and over again, the typical stump speech. he wants to fancy it up a little bit or try something out, and if you try something out that doesn't work, it's a headline a lot of times. >> the videotape that's not going to go away any time soon. let's talk about ron paul. he made his big announcement on friday as well. is he in this to win it or get his message out there more forcefully? >> every candidate will tell you they're in it to win it as hillary clinton once famously said. i think with ron paul, he's got a lot more traction this time around than he did last time around. he's somebody conservatives are interested in, very align washington, d.c. the tea party. in the end i think ron paul's ideas are too radical for the republican party which is he doesn't think we should have gone after osama bin laden, he doesn't think we should have social security. put those two things together, it's not exactly a winning platform. >> it's a completely different playing field right now for ron paul. four years ago there were all these supporters of him saying there's a media blackout, nobody is putting ron paul on, knob is talking about him. now the air waves are saturated with ron paul and people know exactly what he stands for. it's a completely different test for him. >> mitt romney, the former massachusetts governor who some think is the front-runner right now, he has to deal with the specific issue involving health care. >> health care, and it is the fact that so-called obama-care was in many ways based on the kind of health care reform that mitt romney passed in massachusetts when he was governor. and most specifically, the part of that health care reform was the mandate which said that everybody in the state has to buy health care insurance, and that's the big problem republicans have with obama's health care reform. so it is a very, very big heavyweight around his neck. >> we were talking about newt gingrich's negatives. romney has a few, too when you think about it. not one of these will kill him, but they'll affect him. there may be a few people concerned about the fact he's a mormon, there may be people concerned about the issue of flip-flopping which he's been accused of. you put that together with health care, he has to over come those challenges, too. >> we know he can raise money. we know he's got a great team surrounding him. don't underestimate the fact that he's been through it once before which always gives you a leg up and also republicans are very hierarchical. they tend to nominate the candidate next in line. lots of folks think romney is next in line. >> the interesting thing about mitt romney is he's not saying he made a mistake in massachusetts when he passed what they call romney-care. he's defending it saying it's different than what president obama passed federally. >> he absolutely can't, because if he does go back on it, suddenly he's going to be accused of being a flip-flopper. he has to stay with the program and distinguish himself from president obama and hope that people get the distinction. a lot of people say that whenever you're explaining in politics, you're losing. >> if newt gingrich's problem is discipline, mitt romney's problem is authenticity. that's why he had to stake with health care reform. but in the end, they all know it's not going to be a plus on his resume for republicans. >> i loved your column at cnn.com this week about newt gingrich and some of the other candidates, the new way of how they announce their candidacy for president by tweeting. >> i'm not in favor of that, could you tell? i think we need speeches and talk about issues and not just say "read my tweet." >> cat's out of the bag. >> thanks guys. young people being taught bin laden's message of terror. a rare look inside one islamic school in afghanistan. pakistan's army uncomfortably the spotlight in the wake of bin laden's death. why there's growing embarrassment in the town where he was living. 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[ male announcer ] hurry, join for free today. weight watchers online for men. finally, losing weight clicks. two weeks since bin laden's death there's intensifying outrage at pakistan, not only around the world but in their back yard n the military town where he was living for years. here is cnn's nick peyton walsh. >> reporter: don't sound your horn. it's a popular text message around a military town that didn't know the world's most wanted man is living by. >> they're sleeping. i don't know their activities. >> reporter: anger now at the army who are uncomfortably in the spotlight. the m