house tries to project this image that the president is big successful annual of these and remember it s full of small minded people like this guys working on the private enemies list and there ll be more. aen unclassified leaks about the raid going to usama bin laden, have gone too far at a press conference with mike mullen. let s listen. we ve gotten to a point where we have are close to jeopardizing this precious capability that we have and we can t afford to do that. this fight isn t over. it is time to stop talking and we have talked far too much about this. we need to move on. it s a story that if we don t stop talking, it will never e end, and it needs to. cal, stop talking.
gates expressed strong concern for safety of the s.e.a.l.s. each of them gave a stark warning. from my perspective, it is time to stop talking. and we have talked far too much about this. we need to move on. it s a story that if we don t stop talking, it will never end. and it needs to. i m very concerned about this. because we we won t to retain the capability to carry out these kinds of operations in the future. and when so much detail is available, it makes that both more difficult and riskier. now, with respect to the s.e.a.l.s, in my meeting with them the thursday after the operation, they did express concern not so much for themselves but for their families. and all i will say is that we have been taking a close look at that and we will do whatever is
we have talked far too much about this. we need to move on. it s a story that if we don t stop talking, it will never end. and it needs to. some of the concern that i ve been hearing from the pentagon is not just the fact that tactics of the s.e.a.l. team was revealed but also some of the technology that they used as well. brooke? do they have any idea who the source of these leaks are, chris? well, you heard from the white house counterterrorism officials. you heard from the director of the cia, defense officials speaking on background about it. there is enough leaks to go around. there are plenty of people to talk about this. so i don t think they are pointing the finger.
more than getting bone back, it s a marker for where we are. reporter: he told me patients like giffords often need another procedure, this one to get rid of the buildup in the brain. he inserts a tube to remove the fluid in the brain and the abdominal cavity. a shunt will be in place forever. so people walk around with this tubing all their life? very small plastic tubing. it can last for the rest of their life. reporter: for gabby giffords, it s the end of one stage and the beginning of the next, trying to get back to the life she once knew. i tell you what, elizabeth cohen, just watching that i i m still marveling at neurosurgery how they re able to go in, perfectly fit that piece? isn t that amazing? it s a customer maid piece. they send a cat scan to the company that makes these implants, prosthetics, and they make it to exactly fit that paetsch sneenlt do we know when her virg will be? we don t.
and we have talked far too much about this. we need to move on. it s a story that if we don t stop talking, it will never end, and it needs to. now, admiral mullen s vund others in the military feel too much has been said. operational security has been put at risk. they would have problems doing a mission like this again because everybody knows how it s defer. the military is concerned for themselves and their family when the bad guys know what units they are, they could try to find them. there s a lot of undercurrent here now about too much having been said. it doesn t mean reporters aren t going to keep asking questions, of course. including you, barbara. exactly. all right. thank you very much. barbara starr for us at the pentagon. our next story is about a phone call that no parent ever