Phil Stewart

But it really kind of advanced more fulsomely after Thanksgiving and in the weeks before the operation itself.

Much more recently.

Yeah.

They said that the decision had been made just in recent days and that,

I think the president himself said that they were going to go in four days before they did, but the circumstances didn't work out and they rescheduled.

Right.

And so it was one of those situations where the president

as is traditional, retains the ability to kind of decide, you know, at the very last moment whether to really go forward or not because you want to have all the information available to you.

You don't want to pre-decide a military operation and then maybe some other opportunity to resolve it appears.

So he did, but the military option, from what we understand, was given enough time

support that you saw Delta Force soldiers training on a mock version of this compound and really where we are actually.

Yeah.

And so and so there they are training hard on an operation that's extraordinarily dangerous.

I mean, the ability of anyone to go into a well-guarded compound like that and come out, you know,

with no casualties, no dead anyway, is really just incredible.

Well, I mean, it was a very, it was a massive operation.

I've heard someone describe it as an operation that was even more complicated than the bin Laden operation.

Partly due to the weather and the fact that you're coming off the sea and there's a lot of unstable air.

So you're coming in with helos off the sea.

Around 150 aircraft were involved in this thing because they didn't just come in.