mr. donilon, welcome to "meet the press." >> thank you, david. glad to be here. >> bottom line, what are you learning based on new intelligence from this raid? we referenced the videos just a moment ago. >> well, 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 that 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 the scene of any single terrorist. it's about the size of a small college library. >> what does that mean? what does that actually tell us? we looked at the video we showed before. you see osama bin laden looking at images of himself on a screen. >> yes. >> where is that actually happening and when? do you have an idea? >> i don't have an idea with respect to the timing that i can share with you at this point, but let me tell you three or four things about it, all right? point one is it indicates to us th

mr. donilon, welcome to "meet the press." >> thank you, david. glad to be here. >> bottom line, what are you learning based on new intelligence from this raid? we referenced the videos just a moment ago. >> well, 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 that 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 the scene of any single terrorist. it's about the size of a small college library. >> what's that actually tell us? we looked at the video we showed before. you see osama bin laden looking at images of himself on a screen. >> yes. >> where is that actually happening and when? do you have an idea? >> i don't have an idea with respect to the timing that i can share with you at this point, but let me tell you three or four things about it, all right? point one is it indicates to us that in addition to being

i put that question to the president's national security adviser, tom donilon. mr. donilon, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> firstly, the pictures that have just come out. you've seen them. what do they tell us that we didn't know about osama bin laden? >> i think the principal thing to take away is that he was engaged not in just being a symbolic leader of al qaeda but involved in strategic and operational leadership and let me say a couple of things about it, number one it was recovered as part of the operation of sunday night in addition to taking out osama bin laden on sunday night our special forces who are trained in this area gathered up as much information as they could before they left the compound. >> how much? >> well, it's a very large cache. >> how would you describe it in terms of its largeness? >> i had sea say two things about it. it's the single largest cache of information we've gotten from a senior terrorist and number two the cia is describing to us as the size of a small college library. >> have you found any imminent threat, anything

i put that question to the president's national security adviser, tom donilon. mr. donilon, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> firstly, the pictures that have just come out. you've seen them. what do they tell us that we didn't know about osama bin laden? >> i think the principal thing to take away is that he was engaged not in just being a symbolic leader of al qaeda but he was involved in strategic and operational leadership, and let me say just a couple of things about it, number one, the information was recovered as part of the operation of sunday night in addition to taking out osama bin laden on sunday night our special forces who are trained in this area gathered up as much information as they could before they left the compound. >> how much? >> well, it's a very large cache. >> how would you describe it in terms of its largeness? >> i'd say two things about it. it's the single largest cache of information that we've gotten from a senior terrorist, number one, and, number two, the cia is describing to us as the size of a small college library. >> have

but first, president obama's national security advisor tom donilon. mr. donilon, welcome to "fox news sunday." >> chris, nice to be here. >> chris: let's start with that iconic photo of the situation room as the bin laden raid was going down. there you are in the middle of that tense scene. what was happening at that moment? were you watching aerial surveillance or were you also getting video from the commandos on the ground? >> a couple of things in response to that. first of all, i can't get into exactly what we were receiving technically. but we were able to monitor the operation in real-time. and receive briefings frommed a miller and leon panetta at the c.i.a. second, i'm not sure what we were monitoring at that very moment. but i have looked at the picture obviously, since then. and clearly, everybody was deeply concerned about the success of the mission and the safety of our operators. the president visited with the special forces operation yesterday at fort campbell and received a minute-by-minute briefing yesterday from the operators -- not from