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Significant number after the targeted killing of three isis jihadist last month we were responsible for planning attacks in the west as well as the isis drone program in iraq. >> john: employees being charged with transmitting top-secret documents to a chinese agent. kevin mallory of virginia is an army veteran who worked with various federal agencies and defense contractors. he is a self-employed consultant. he traveled to china earlier this year and received $25,000 from individuals he thought...

Reporting, and the report suggest solid, that the president shared something with russia that hasnt been shared throughout the united states government. hasnt been shared with western allies. thats the big dust up. and a lot of the people who are defending the president saying no big deal, lets go back to the campaign where president trump then candidate trump was on the trail and the allegation was that by setting up a private e-mail server hillary clinton had put some things at risk. >> rememb...

Iraqi army bill but it gives us leverage and reduce the influence of the iranians. >> bill: so even after isis is defeated you go back to the sunni/shia battle. on the move to another story wall street journal is reporting under president obama the cia would locate a target under the drone program but the u.s. military would carry it out and the trump administration is look being to -- looking to put it under the cia. whats the biggest change or distinction if you carry it out that way. >> the 9...

Is this really about to be debated, do you think, or is this -- we just followed -- were just following a document thats going to go nowhere? >> well, no one should be surprised in the balance between national security and civil liberties, president trump like candidate trump wants to be more a aggressive. a lot of people were surprised how barack obama made that balance as president. on some areas he went for national security, including the drone program, including targeting american citizens ...

Director leon panetta. obama gave him plenty of latitude. when panetta wanted to dramatically expand the cias fleet of drones in pakistan, the president, over the objections of his staff, told panetta the cia gets what it wants. >> it was a u.s. drone that fired -- >> u.s. drone strike killed -- >> believed to have taken out -- >> al qaedas second in command has been killed by a u.s. drone strike. >> drones got the job done. >> reported drone strike. >> its a major blow. >> al qaedas senior lead...

Director, leon panetta. obama gave him plenty of latitude. when obapanetta wanted to expan the drones, the president over the objections, told him, the u.s. gets what it wants. >> al qaedas second in command has been killed. >> killed by a u.s. drone strike. >> drones got the job done. >> reported drone strike. >> al qaedas senior leadership was decimated. >> the joke became that they once again killed the number three guy in al qaeda. >> president obama had become the drone president. >> very c...

On the list. >> carrying out the campaign of killing was the presidents cia director leon panetta. obama gave him plenty of latitude. when panetta wanted to dramatically expand the cias fleet of drones in pakistan, the president, over the objections of his staff, told panetta the cia gets what it wants. >> it was a u.s. drone that fired -- >> u.s. drone strike killed -- >> believed to have taken out -- >> al qaedas second in command has been killed by a u.s. drone strike. >> drones got the job d...

>> drones got the job done. >> reported drone strike. >> its a major blow. >> al qaedas senior leadership was decimated. >> the joke became that they once again killed the number three guy in al qaeda. >> president obama had become the drone president. >> very controversial drone program. >> -- has been killed. >> killed. >> killed in a drone attack. >> have you opened a pandoras box? people will use your precedent and say the americans under obama did it so were going to use drones. is that the...

Latitude. when panetta wanted to dramatically expand the cias fleet of drones in pakistan, the president, over the objections of his staff, told panetta the cia gets what it wants. >> it was a u.s. drone that fired -- >> u.s. drone strike killed -- >> believed to have taken out -- >> al qaedas second in command has been killed. >> killed by a u.s. drone strike. >> drones got the job done. >> reported drone strike. >> its a major blow. >> al qaedas senior leadership was decimated. >> the joke bec...

They consider that an existential problem. so losing turkey in this whole thing has not been helpful. >> karen, we heard just a couple weeks ago president obama in his press conference, his final press conference of the year lay out in a pretty detailed way about why it is the u.s. did not go full force boots on the ground in syria. that that was not something he thought was worth it. what do you make of that? what do you make of his philosophy here? he seemed quite pained by that scenario. >> y...