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But not in the presidents personal popularity. for the average american he is still a likeable guy. on drones, the president says he wants new rules for the use of drones but he is recognizing that this is a weapon that we have to be careful about. i think hes got some support there for both sides of that opposition. >> when you look at that number, david, what jumps off the page, at least to me, is not an approval of the drone program, but just the idea -- ordinary americans look at the drone p...

Out his thought process there. the drone issue is a tough one i have a tough time thinking about. im horrified when i read about the collateral damage, the civilians killed from there. also, i have the thought of, you know, what does that do to our image in pakistan or any country. i think we have the data. if you look at pakistan polls about the u.s. image in pakistan at the start of the obama presidency favorable image was 16%. it was 16%. its down to 11%. one of the great hopes of the obama p...

Drone issue. >> yes. >> drones werent started by the obama administration. >> no, no. >> there were drone attacks during the bush years. do you think there is a problem with what the president has done in terms of going after al awlaki? >> a drone is nothing but an airplane without a pilot. >> right. >> and the pilot ons the ground instead of in the airplane flying that thing. so the technology is here. it is going to be used by countries. its going to be used by private organizations. >> but yo...

Saying, wait a minute, we cant kill u.s. citizens without due process? >> right, i think theres no question that if john mccain had won the election in 2008 or mitt romney had won it in 2012 that liberals would be screaming about this stuff and saying, you know, that -- there would be this thing, war crimes, we should do impeachment and the reality is that i think a lot of people -- and i think this is sincere. a lot of people so fed up with the iraq war, perceived as the sort of crimes of the b...

On the drone issue, for instance, on public security issues, on airport and cctv to think about this in a more -- to really be more thoughtful about this.

Everyone is broken by life but some people are stronger in the broken places. so nations and cities get broken by life but theyre going to be stronger. >> we are part of the problem. when we are so hyper, wired, kids are walking by tvs. for four solid days had the reel of the explosion after the reel of the explosion, the yelling, the screaming. we are encouraging mass hysteria and then having thoughtful panelses on mass hysteria. do you know what i mean? weve to change a little of the way we do...

Weve to change a little of the way we do it. >> i dont think were encouraging mass hysteria. theres being prudent and terrorized and theres a big gap between those two. we can do this in a way thats not hysterical but cognizant of what the reality is. the other point, a more hopeful point, its that after 9/11 we had no experience with this. so sometimes some of our reactions were correct reactions. some were overreactions. and this gives us an opportunity on the drone issue, for instance, on pub...

Interesting confluence where you had people on the left and the right calling into question the legality of the drone issue. thats not the case with this debate. this is very much a very stark partisan debate being had on gun issues and whether or not everything from background checks to assault weapons to high caliber machines to gun trafficking to all these other laws that are being -- amendments being proposed. thats going to be the difference between how a filibuster will be perceived on tha...

Lee of utah. they saw that the stand with rand filibuster covered the drone issue was so effective it not only gummed up the senate but also got huge street cred for rand paul among conservatives that they are going to try it again. and what theyre trying to disarm here, what theyre trying to defuse here is an effort to add amendments to this to tighten up the restrictions. so as you said in your set-up, the bill theyre going to take up when they come back two weeks from now is going to be mostl...

In the last campaign, frankly not talking about open-ended commitments. does the gop need to recognize and respond to a war weariness in the country? >> i think the drone issue and war we areness are two totally different issues. rand pauls war and drones is a war on a pretty successful fight against terrorism right now. im not sure where that gets us. i agree with bill that the gop doesnt lose by being a strong party of national security. what we -- what the republicans lost were moderates new ...