Mike Safo with Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst, Author and the Journalist who Interviewed Bin Laden

About this episode

Joined today by CNN National Security Analyst, Journalist, documentarian, podcaster, and New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen. Peter is on to talk about his outstanding new book, All the Presidents’ Wars: 25 Years of the American War on Terror . Peter talks about the successes and failures of the War on Terror, the mistakes made by multiple presidents during that time, and why the United States has repeatedly struggled to plan for what comes after military intervention. We also chat about one of history’s biggest “what ifs”: What if Osama bin Laden had been captured or killed at Tora Bora in 2001? Peter tells us about his famous 1997 interview with bin Laden in an Afghan cave and…