isn t this august, not supposed to be a lot going on. don t you wish one day we d say there s nothing going on, go home. change the channel. a lot has to do with the economy, up first president obama talking jobs in the heartland of america. the president is in iowa this morning. no straw polls. no campaigns it s a campaign stop. it s a campaign-style trip through three mid western states. he ll meet with a group of farmers and small business owners today. he s been making his pitch for job growth and sounding a familiar theme that republicans are playing politics with the economy. the problem we have is not with our country. the problem is, that our politics is broken. [ applause ] the problem is, is that we ve got the kind of partisan brinkmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country. that s more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. well, the president was glad handing after a town hall meeting in iowa, he was c
it would have made the political price higher for the united states to go after him. but so close to islam bad? so close to a pakistani military facility? look, i wouldn t have been surprised if he was in rawalpindi, which was a lot closer than that, because being closer to the border americans could have gone after him just claiming hot pursuit on a normal operation. there s a lot about this information we don t know and ov details we get at first turn out not to be true. you look at the pat tillman incident. you look at the jessica lynch story. what questions do you have about this operation that you would like to have answers to? what i would like to know is was it just an air assault or did they attack from the ground first? i d be interested in those sort of things. look, they wouldn t have done an attack here unless they had good humant, sig ant, and over int. human intelligence, aerial intelligence talking about human intelligence, they must have had eyes on the gr
was it just an air assault or did they attack from the ground first? i d be interested in those sort of things. look, they wouldn t have done an attack here unless they had good humant, sig ant, and over int. human intelligence, aerial intelligence talking about human intelligence, they must have had eyes on the ground, eyes on this compound for some time. delta force has tactical rules that they have eyes on, an american watching the compound to make sure that bin laden wasn t moved out at the last minute. absolutely they did. they would have had people on the ground. they would have never gone in without them. bob, the u.s. is saying that the pakistanis were not told of this mission until it was after until it was over, after u.s. officials got out of the the special forces got out of pakistani airspace. you don t believe that. oh, not at all.