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Plot, but we couldnt. and as president, i would have been derelict in my duty had i not authorized the strike that took him out. >> no speech would be complete without someone from code pink challenging the president. >> you are commander in chief. you can close guantanamo today. >> why dont you let me address it, maam. we insist judicial review be available for every detainee. maam, let me finish. let me finish, maam. i -- this is part of free speech, is you being able to speak, but also you li...

18 and 35 and youre a male and you are within the scope of a suspected terrorist, you are presumed guilty by the united states government and they drop a drone on you. >> yeah. >> there had to be a middle ground. i guess im confused. why are we going all the way to the other side here from a policy that has been very, very aggressive? >> i think there is an explanation of that. >> well, lets set the context. first of all, a few minutes ago, you asked why had progressives and the code pink group ...

Plot, but we couldnt. and as president, i would have been derelict in my duty had i not authorized the strike that took him out. >> no speech would be complete without someone from code pink challenging the president. >> you are commander in chief. you can close guantanamo today. >> why dont you let me address it, maam. we insist judicial review be available for every detainee. maam, let me finish. let me finish, maam. i -- this is part of free speech, is you being able to speak, but also you li...

I said. but these are tough issues. and the suggestion that we can gloss over them is wrong. >> the activists at code pink and medea benjamin are not trying to make friends. they are out to be disruptive to those with whom they disagree. the president today reacted in a way that was so surprising in part, i think, because he thought he was saying something in which anti-war protesters would agree. eventu eventu essentially the moment was there, hey, stop interrupting me and you might like what y...

>> all that while, this was the look on the presidents face. listening. standing there listening at what is supposed to be his own speech. but the look of a maybe flustered president being heckled at extraordinary lengths -- >> were addressing that, maam. >> -- eventually seemed way to give way to something else. >> the voice of that woman is worth paying attention to. obviously -- [ applause ] obviously i do not agree with much of what she said. and obviously she wasnt listening to me in much o...

Conservative. there have been many conservatives in the senate. jesse helms was as conservative from north carolina, as conservative as most of these guys. but theres a belief among ted cruz, mike lee, rand paul to a certain extent, though i dont know if id put him in that group, that the senate as an institution has basically failed. its the jim demint argument. jim demint is the prejenetor of this. the way things have been done in the senate are by nature, therefore, wrong. thats why you hear ...

>> america does not take strikes to punish individuals. we act against terrorists who pose imminent threat to the american people and before any strike is taken, there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. the highest standard we can set. >> still, the president admitted there were instances when innocent people were caught in the cross-fire. the pentagon will be taking over some parts of the drone program from the cia, putting it under greater scrutiny from congres...

Abdulmutallabs. they will send more bombers. what is the broad strategy to deal with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula invest in a long-term strategy. wu one thing to look out, chris, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was a small organization when drone strikes started, and since the strikes have grown, and im not saying this is the only cause and effect, but it certainly is one of the major causes and effect. the number of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula members apparently has grown exponenti...

What is the broad strategy to deal with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula from your perspective? >> you have to invest in a long-term strategy. one thing to look out, chris, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was a small organization when drone strikes started, and since the strikes have grown, and im not saying this is the only cause and effect, but it certainly is one of the major causes and effect. the number of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula members apparently has grown exponentially. and,...

Either one of those options i dont feel real good about and i would also say if youre the president of the united states and you have consistent noise about a group being targeted by the irs, a good executive would ask a question at a certain point. >> hillary, very quickly, last thought? >> first of all, if somebody says its inconceivable that evidence is irrelevant because the evidence, the republican appointed inspector general said there were no politics involved here. and i think if the pre...