Watch Clip From 60 Minutes Interview With Obama On Bin Laden’s Death

President Obama taped an interview yesterday to air on 60 Minutes Sunday, but a preview of his exchange with Steve Kroft demonstrates a confident President who is certain about his decision not to release the photos of Osama bin Laden‘s dead body.

Obama stated:

It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence. As a propaganda tool. You know, that’s not who we are. You know, we don’t trot out this stuff as trophies. You know, the fact of the matter is this was somebody who was deserving of the justice that he received.

In addition to suggesting “we don’t need to spike the football” with any further celebration, Obama encouraged America and the world not to doubt the legitimacy of Bin Laden’s death. Obama admitted, “there are going to be some folks who deny it [but] the fact of the matter is, you will not see bin Laden walking on this Earth again.”

Watch the clip from CBS below:

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