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>> time is of the essence for me, because if something was to happen to me, as i said before, i want to make sure my family is provided for. i came back from deployment, proving im willing to put my life on the line for my country. its important now that my country protect my family. >> karen, you are still a doma plaintiff. as you pay attention to whats happening today, what are your hopes for your family? >> im optimistic and hopeful that the supreme court will find that doma is unconstitution...

international norm that we believe in and for us to provide strong support to continue to talk to the russians, the chinese, and others about why it is that they need to stand up on behalf of people who are being shelled mercilessly and why it is important for them to join us in a coalition, thats the most important thing that we can do right now. there may be immediate steps to discuss to make sure that humanitarian aid is being provided in a robust way and to make sure that an opposi...

Interrogation provided information that protected american. correct? am i correct on that? you provided the sources and your sourcing is correct. >> you quoted panetta. >> bill: right. panetta said about this incident. okay. now, so then you hear the president and vice president, and secretary of state flat out deny what it looks to be proven yard. that worries me. >> well, in my view, we very likely would not have captured or killed osama bin laden had we not had the intelligence information we...

Whatever discount. [ female announcer ] tons of discounts. see for yourself at esurance. technology when you want it. people when you dont. as you may know, secretary of state clinton has been kind to pakistan in the face of overwhelming evidence it actually hid usama bin laden from the world. on sunday, this is what she said after his death. >> cooperation with pakistan helped lead us to bin laden and the compound in which he was hiding. >> however, that is seemingly contradicted by cia chief...

Methods shows the methods work, number one, and protected the american people, number two. if you are going to go like panetta did, well maybe we could have gotten it another way, fine, fine. the fact of the matter is these people are on the record of saying it never works, blah-blah-blah. now, the value question. the value question -- >> well let me respond to that. let me just say that in fact, the sequence as i understand it from the people in the intelligence community is what ksm did is he ...

Protected the american people, number two. if you are going to go like panetta did and i know, as i said i know why pa panetta did t maybe we could have gotten it another way. okay, fine, fine. the fact of the matter is, these people are on the record as saying never works. coerced inhair gation never works, ba, ba, ba, ba. the value question. >> let me respond to that. let me just say that, in fact, the sequence, as i understand it from people in the intelligence community is that what ksm did ...

Number two. if you are going to go like panetta did and i know, as i said i know why pa panetta did t maybe we could have gotten it another way. okay, fine, fine. the fact of the matter is, these people are on the record as saying never works. coerced inhair gation never works, ba, ba, ba, ba. the value question. >> let me respond to that. let me just say that, in fact, the sequence, as i understand it from people in the intelligence community is that what ksm did was he lied about the identity ...

Crowley. look, maybe i am wrong but it looks to me like what the director is saying is we didnt trust pakistan at all. is that what you picked up from that? >> well, that is true. oddly those two statements are not contradictory. >> well, they are in a way that it misleads the american public to make an evaluation of whether the $3.4 billion should be sent to that country. so panetta says look, we didnt tell em because we cant trust em and they would tip off bin laden. and then secretary clinton...

Derived through those kinds of interrogations but i guess the question that everybody will always debate is whether or not those approaches had to be used in order to get the same information. and that frankly, is an open question. >> bill: okay. because mr. panetta works for president obama. he has to say that he has to hedge a bit. well, we dont know exactly how much information. we might have got, could have, maybe, had we not dunked the guys in the water, the three guys. okay, fine. i unders...

Called it illegal since you dont hold any power thats your opinion. now, president obama and panetta, as you saw, all right? >> yes. >> bill: they are going to continue to do this kind of thing. what i dont understand is if you say its illegal to attack the enemy by air, thats what this is, then is it illegal to attack them by ground? could we send commandos after al awlaki and cue him in the head? can we do that. >> first of all i disagree with you that they are the enemy. you have defined them...