DON LEMON: Yeah. And you said, Wolf, that because of this, because of the importance of what the president is going to announce, that they want to have everything in order.

BLITZER: Yes. You know, this is something, and without sharing what I suspect, and I say I suspect because I don’t know for 100%, but what I suspect he is going to announce, this is something that’s been in the works for obviously a long, long time. And it’s something that the American people and indeed the world will want to hear directly from the president of the United States. So I don’t want to speculate too much about what probably the president is getting ready to announce. But it’s a very, very important development right now. And it’s something that will generate a lot, a lot of reaction, understandably so.

LEMON: And Wolf, I know you’re working your sources. I’m sure your Blackberry is going crazy there. So we’re going to let you work your sources for a little bit…. I want to bring in CNN’s John King…What do you know?

KING: Don, CNN is told by several sources now that the President of the United States will announce in just moments that the United States has the body of Osama bin Laden. That Osama bin Laden has been killed…We don’t know the details of how that happened. But that is the dramatic announcement the president will make.

CNN’s chyron, soon after 10:45PM, read: “3 U.S. sources tell CNN that Osama bin Laden is dead.”

Blitzer, looking none too pleased in the ensuing split-screen with King, chimed in that “we’ve suspected that for the past hour or so, but we wanted to be very, very precise.”





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