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Of the iraq war in 2003, the bush administration announced in fact that we would be pulling our troops out of saudi arabia. it was a huge deal that we decided to do that. ive always been surprised that its not a bigger part of what we remember as the legacy of george w. bushs presidency. no more bases in saudi arabia. now, though, that has sort of been reversed. at least a little. today "the new york times" reports that some time after 2009, so some time during the presidency of barack obama, th...

Heres a look at the headlines. the location of a top secret u.s. drone base has been revealed. the base in saudi arabia has been used to launch strikes in yemen. including the drone strikes that killed anwar al-awlaki. if you own a gun you could be forced to buy insurance for it. democratic leaders proposed an idea as a way to encourage gun owners to keep them locked up. it would be liability insurance for injuries caused by a persons gun. >> image calling 911 being told a police officer will no...

Anyone? >> no. no. >> no. its not effective. >> its not effective. >> correct, its not effective. >> gretchen: except that as steve mentioned, outgoing secretary of defense, panetta said it was. it was effective in leading to osama bin laden. if youve seen the movie, "zero dark thirty," you see that that -- >> steve: part of the puzzle. >> brian: here it is. i believe our fourth estate is outing us because one of our allies, saudi arabia has said you can keep a secret drone base on our soil. jus...

Community organizer approach as opposed to the executive approach. quite frankly, governors understand, theyve been in the position where they are sort of the figure head, they have the bully pulpit and they under no matter how many people you can sway with that you have to sort of be going in ha certain direction and get things done and that is not what this guy does, hes not good at it. so he just takes potshots and sort of plays the sort of -- appears to play the sort of political high road, ...

It feels a lot different than the wound four years ago. >> it does. but its still carrying forward what i think is going to be obamas big mark. i mean, on foreign policy. if you look at where the opposition is coming against hagel on the outside, the money you just mentioned for those ads and some of the ideological opponents, its really from a group of people who have been defending what is sort of the neoconservative tradition, which is now under assault, continues to be under assault, and whi...

Because this search is taking place in the adriatic sea, there are italian rescue boats involved as well. if we hear anything more on this, jon, well certainly pass it along. back to you. jon: lets hope they can find him. rick folbaum, thank you. patti ann: a new battleground in the war on terror, the u.s. reportedly ready to sign a deal with niger to open a new drone base in west africa. it brings u.s. forces to the border with mali where french troops have been helping battle islamist militant...

In the region there. the united states pennedda an agreement with the west african nation of niger, to have a hub that could include a drone base that could be used to monitor al qaeda-lanked -- linked militants in border mali. the united states is ramping up intelligence efforts over mali, where the french are fighting islamist militants. mike baker is here, a former cia operative. mike, have you to be concerned when you think that the united states is going to be involved in the situation in m...

So many of these weapons, reportedly they went into algeria. many went down here to mali. that is what were contesting at the moment. furthermore, i make mention of this. i come back to what is happening here in egypt. i never thought we would be on television talking about u.s. military involvement, operating out of niger, to contest islamists in mali. but you say, people have been talking about this for some time, it is just a question whether we listened to them or not? >> right. the pentagon...

Overthrow of qaddafi, they moved to algeria and into mali, where they have taken over half the country. this is where we need to be focusing on our attention. i would argue that we got lost in the nation building exercise of iraq and afghanistan and we need to be more proactive and fight smarter. these small, portable-type operations where we have opportunities to do intel support, where we do drone basing and speck ops. thats where we need to be put org money. >> a lot of people were listening ...

Begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye. on my campaign radar this morning, new numbers show a tough re-election race ahead for the governor of the keystone state. an nfl players are reacting to the presidents football concerns. but first, the u.s. and niger have reportedly reached a status of forces agreement. and that has to be in place before american military pers...