in the abbottabad home. >> that is the answer. i would have loved to see more. the documents are fascinating. the him not read them, i encourage people to do the so. i'm sure there's other footage that has not been released. >> you got to go there before the house was leveled by pakistani authorities. it was controlled by pakistani intelligence. you went there first. you must have expected hitler's bunker. >>-working on osama bin laden for the first time. i was the only outside worker to get inside the compound. they must have known they were going to demolish it. i did not know that. i thought it might be like visiting hitler's bunker after world war two. he was surrounded by his three kids -- three wives and a dozen kids. he was certainly not living large. there is no air conditioning. there's very little heating. people were were sleeping on beds that were basically bit of cardboard put together. they were growing their own festivals and raising their own andkens and cows vegetables. it was very self-sufficient. they did not ha

government agencies to release very little of what they found in the abbottabad home? >> that is the answer. i would have loved to see more. the documents are fascinating. if you have never read them, i encourage people to do so. they are available on the internet. i'm sure there's other footage that has not been released. >> peter, you got to go there before the house was leveled by pakistani authorities. it was controlled by pakistani intelligence. you went there first. you must have expected hitler's bunker. >> i was working on osama bin laden for a long time. i was the only outside worker to get inside the compound. they must have known they were going to demolish it. i did not know that. i thought it might be like visiting hitler's bunker after world war ii. it really was not. he was living in a suburban compound, surrounded by his three wives and a dozen kids and grandkids. he was certainly not living large. there is no air conditioning. there's very little heating. people were sleeping on beds that were basically bits of cardboard put together. they were growing

i want to ask you then, in the 16 months from khost to abbottabad, you have about 60 seconds. what is the key there? what really moves ahead that takes us to that one place in pakistan? >> there are a lot of keys along the way. let me try to lay it out briefly. they have an alias. abu kuwaiti is the father. there were several million. he was the career working for -- courier working for bin laden. sometime in 2007 we get the real name. sayed is a john smith name. even he is not a kuwaiti. he is a pakistani. that is twice the size of california. it is something that it is not great. in 2010, this guy makes a phone call to someone in the gulf. the content lead the agency to believe that this guy is still in al qaeda. he is in a city in western pakistan. the city is about several million people. he is practicing careful security. he takes the battery out of his phone. there's no way to track him. they have to put people into the city and eventually track and back 2.5 hours away to the city of abbottabad. what surprised them was the mysterious third family he was living in the com

film clipanother rate --e abbottabad raid. abbottabad, how is it handled in the film question mark with what excerpt number four. [video clip] ♪ >> the hunt from the courier to bin laden makes complete sense to me. it was based on all of the years of experience in a tightknit group of people who really cared about this and supported each other. we invented the technique that works. it is the technique that got bin laden in the end. >> i got a call from a former colleague. he said turn on the news. i was at home. turn on the news, the president is going to make an announcement. i had a feeling that it had been a good day at the office. >> good evening. >> finally, it is him. they got him. they got him finally. that was really something. [end video clip] >> isn't that terrific? all of you know where you were. we see a lot of the old, everybody we met in the movie, saying where they were when they got the news and how they reacted. let me come to you on this. that little bit of video we saw on osama bin laden like an old man in

obamacare, we talk abbottabad negotiating the specific benefits for women. what about the cost to their pocketbook at home. to the economy at large. and the freedom. none of this is discussed in terms of how this hurts women and their families. >> david: john, again, the best the president has offered, to help the people are the government programs. the stimulus programs. most of the stimulus programs some were tax deductions, but most of it was spending. taking money directly out of the private sector, because that's where the government money comes from. redistributing it. who is the best allocator of capital? is it the folks in government? or is the folks in the private sector? >> by definition, it's the people in the private sector. that is the problem. economic growth is so simple, particularly in a country like ours, all the government has to do is spend less, tax less, keep the dollar stable. alow to us trade freely. you would see the economy soar, because we have a lot of wants and if we're allowed to produce for the wants we will produce a lot. just

obamacare, we talk abbottabad negotiating the specific benefits for women. what about the cost to their pocketbook at home. to the economy at large. and the freedom. none of this is discussed in terms of how this hurts women and their families. >> david: john, again, the best the president has offered, to help the people are the government programs. the stimulus programs. most of the stimulus programs some were tax deductions, but most of it was spending. taking money directly out of the private sector, because that's where the government money comes from. redistributing it. who is the best allocator of capital? is it the folks in government? or is the folks in the private sector? >> by definition, it's the people in the private sector. that is the problem. economic growth is so simple,pae ours, all the government has to do is spend less, tax less, keep the dollar stable. alow to us trade freely. you would see the economy soar, because we have a lot of wants and if we're allowed to produce for the wants we will produce a lot. just get government out of the w

a limited number of documents have been released so far -- abbottabad compound. i think the public would gain by knowing more of that information. we think that would be an important recommendation as well. >> with that, i will take -- i will takehe liberties to ask some questions and then we will open it up to the the audience but we cannot start today without talking about syria. one thing that strikes me is we allegedly have seen chemical weapons used by syrians. is this something we need to be concerned about at home? assess that and how do you think the threat from chemical/biological weapons has increased or decreased? deployededa in iraq chlorine bombs on 17 occasions. the only -- it is not a particularly effective way to kill people. people who died in these attacks were killed by the blast. nasrada in iraq -- al was a splinter group of al qaeda and they are prepared to use chemical weapons albeit of a crude nature. are they behind the seron gas attacks as the assad regime claims? that seems absurd. the number of people killed is beyond the possibility of

of you have heard of his most recent book, " manhunt: the ten-year search for bin laden from 9/11 to abbottabad," many of you have seen the movie as well. thank you. hoffman, heis bruce has been studying terrorism for more than 30 years. he is the director of the center for security studies at georgetown and was the corporate chair in counterterrorism at the rand corporation. hurley,eft is michael who i have known for some time and i'm proud to say i have on thewith when he was 9/11 commission, where he led the counterterrorism policy investigation. he was in the cia for 25 years. on 9/11 to go to afghanistan for two tours. one gentleman who is not here dr. saunders -- dr. southers. agent and was fbi governor arnold schwarzenegger's deputy director for critical infrastructure. he is currently the associate director of research transition ofthe dhs's center for risk terrorism. these are the four gentlemen who authored the report. i will turn it over to peter to tell us about what they found. >> thank you, carie. thank you for having us on your bbc, forank you publishing the report. thank you to

like to see if the release of all the documents or as many of possible thats were cap sure taken at abbottabad when it bin laden was killed. we think our terrorism could gain a lot of insight about the al qaeda and terrorism. host: the information, "jihadist terrorism -- a threat assessment ," can be found on a bipartisan policy website. our guest has been michael hurley. he has been talking about details of the report. mr. hurley, thank you for your time. guest: thank you so much. host: coming up, immigration policy. our next guest travel through the us-mexico border to find out what officials along the border think about policy being debated here in washington, d.c. "usa today" alan gomez will join us. later, we will hear from a powerbroker. from george mason university will talk about that later on the program as "washington journal" continues. ♪ >> yes, the world is changing. no, we cannot control every event, but america remains the one indispensable nation in world affairs, and as long as i'm president, i intend to keep it that way. >> when the president in the earlier clip was talking

one mother was so outraged she blogged abbottabad an open woman to her daughter. >> dear daughter i'm going to fight or die before you turn out like the miley cyrus's of the world. you can thank me later. >> the letter 4 million views. joins us now, roadkill gold fish. good morning, kim. >> good morning, y'all. >> great to see you. tell us what was it about miley cyrus's performance that so outraged you that you wanted to write to your 13-year-old daughter? >> i don't know, just the fact that what's wrong is wrong. i talk to my daughter all the time. i talk to her friends. it was everything that she was doing was making them uncomfortable. the girls themselves were flabbergasted. as a parent i don't want them to ever think that's the appropriate way to behave to get attention. >> you had an interesting taking on this, and i'm quoting. miley cyrus is not edgy or cute or sexy she's desperate. you probably know girls that emulate this at the next school dance. don't do it with them. you're far too valuable to sell yourself to cheaply. that's heavy and true. what did your daughter say whe