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With the star of the hangover movies. >> is it going to be hard in two years when youre no longer president and people will stop letting you win at basketball? >> how does it feel having a three-inch vertical? >> its a three-inch horizontal. i have to know. what is it like to be the last black president? >> seriously, what is this like to be the last time you ever talk to a president? >> folks are laughing. but there was a serious purpose behind that video. stay with us. covert ops? double agent...

Do. either as an individual or a nation. the monotheistic religions of the world all push its members to fight against poverty. but right now the united states of america, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting what the rich dont take with them. >> congressman emanuel cleaver and sister simone campbell, im going to have to leave it there. thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you, reverend. >> good to be here. still ahead, a top democrat calls out republicans for their ...

Ops. do you think they have been successful in that effort? >> yes. i think barack obama because of who he is, nobel peace prize winner, constitutional lawyer by training has been able to celticly liberals on the idea this is a smarter way of waging war. in fact, theres very little new in war except technology. because of the debates the use of drones inspiring this country theres been a finer point. the u.s. has been in the business of assassination. obama is the first president in modern times...

We say your drones are terrorism. its why ive come to a belief in some of these countries, we are actually making more new enemies than we are killing terrorists. and we know that the justice department lawyers redefined the term imminent to such a degree that reasonable people who would look at it would say thats actually not what it means. the idea someone who in the past may have been involved with plots against the united states permanently rests a threat to the country has taken us way, way...

Close to that time frame. so thats why the posturing is going on o, to get us to try to take tougher economic sanctions and covert ops. megyn: uh-huh. i mean, you just wish it seemed more hopeful than it does can. general, thank you so much for your expertise. see you soon, sir. >> take care, megyn. megyn: new questions today about a report suggesting some of the presidents big donors have collected about $4 billion in taxpayer-funded investments. well show you whos getting the big checks and wh...

Jennifer, you know, is there worry inside the pentagon that -- just a -- well, of, i dont know, being sued? are they worried about the aclu, are they worried about challenges like that, and is that in some way something that now they have to worry about so much that maybe its affecting their strategy? >> well, they certainly have a lot of legal minds looking at these issues as they do at the justice department. the pentagon will say this was not our operation, this was cia-led and done in conjun...

this is a crew speeding away from the rixos hotel in tripoli where gadhafi loyalists, the gunmen who had been holding these men and women captive for five-plus days. now and only now can they tell their story. we will hear it coming up. something here, the cnn crew, among dozens of international journalists, as i mentioned at the rixos hotel, between 30 and 35 journalists were held inside for five-plus days trying to negotiate the release according to our matthew chance, every hour, ...

need folks to leave. ive been in there when planes have entered airspace and they told us to leave the capitol. during this instance, there was no such warning, there was no such direction from capitol police. it happened so quickly that the evacuation orders were given simply by word-of-mouth. by whatever office you were closest to. that was my experience just outside the senate chamber right above it. >> lisa with the latest from the capitol. wolf blitzer standing by for us in washin...

But so far robert gates has been tight lipped, saying no comment when it comes to covert ops. >> i cant speak to cia activities. but the president has been quite clear in terms of the united states military, there will be no boots on the ground. megyn: this turmoil is libya is raising the bar for oil prices. crude oil prices were up nearly $2, now hovering at $106 a barrel it is the highest price since september of 2008. an alert coming in on japan. the tokyo electric power company saying radioa...

Schakowsky, who has been given no clear reason for why they continue to do this. >> if were talking about covert ops, assassinations, other black bag jobs and whatever else there is under the rocks, are there good companies that do this? i mean, is it an academic discussion of who is a good murdering -- murder for hire operation and a bad murder for hire operation? >> well, if you review all of the companies and determine that blackwater is your best company, then you know that this country is i...