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Weinstein and italian giovanni reporto were killed during counterterrorism operations against al qaeda. senior u.s. officials tell nbc news the cia drone strikes on january 14th and january 19th were launched against two separate al qaeda compounds. the white house also revealed two americans who joined al qaeda were killed in the attacks. president obama said the hostages were killed by accident. he took full responsibility. >> as president and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility ...

Thats on your policy justified killing of an american. >> im saying these two al qaeda leaders were frequenting an al qaeda compound that had been identified by the united states. the united states carried out a counter terrorism operation against those compounds with the intent of taking al qaeda fighters and leaders off the battlefield. we do that because we know the al qaeda organization is actively planning and plotting against american citizens. we have, as inkaps lated in the using militar...

Your policy justified killing of an american. >> im saying these two al qaeda leaders were frequenting an al qaeda compound that had been identified by the united states. and the united states carried out a counterterrorism operation against those compounds with the intent of taking al qaeda fighters and al qaeda leaders off the battlefield. we do that because we know that the al qaeda organization is actively planning and plotting against american citizens. we have as encapsulated to use milita...

Which we have been told compounds for example in which we have been told there is a high value target. who it is is not entirely clear. when we were to get the -- we werent entirely certain that he was there. it was not suggested necessarily that he was there. just that there was an extremely high valued target. >> how do we change that or how does the united states assess it and be more clear with intelligence on knowing who is inside a particular compound? >> it is really interesting. we focus...

And you heard from the journalist. the president said they are decimated and on the run and now they are actively planning against the united states and one obviously political, the other having more to do with national security. >> yeah. as to the political question the death of al qaeda has been much exaggerated. they are not decimated. they are actually on the rise along with isis which is on the rise and on the march. but in terms of targeting al qaeda members who happen to have american cit...

Compounds, not people. this is a policy well above what the law requires. >> i have ten seconds to go to commercial. we appreciate your expertise very much. jonathan carl asked about hillary clinton. well have more after the break.

Assessment was correct. >> i know that there are as we talked about here details. and i may be going through red lights here what was it about the surveillance of the compounds that gave the counter terrorism confidence or high levels of confident that they were al-qaeda compounds and they were about to be struck. >> there is not additional information that i can tell you that led to the near certainty that was reached. >> can you say whether or not they were ground forces that carried out. >> i...

A justify have had killing offa an american. >> i am saying that two al-qaeda leaders was frequented an al-qaeda compound. and the united states carried out a counter terrorism operation against those compounds with the intent of taking al-qaeda fighters and leaders off of the battlefield. we do that because the al-qaeda organization is planning and plotting against american citizens. the united states is at war with al-qaeda and affiliates because of the way they are planning and plotting again...

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For the company in other compounds. you were told quite categorically that it was a dry country. i found that it wasnt really that difficult to get hold of alcohol. one of the very first parties i went to was on a compound. like most in the village it was surrounded by its own walls with a very large steel double game. -- double gate. so you were completely self contained in there. people in bikinis sunning themselves by the pool. you would just forget that you were in saudi arabia. >> gordon, h...