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When they -- when they see things. and they do a really good job, things that we never hear about. but with regard to you know the civilians and -- in faraway countries, you talk about drones you know director brennan told us that that happens, but a lot of times thats propaganda by the enemy thats inflated just for, you know, shock effect. so i mean, i do think its a good program. i do think that it would be nice to have a little bit more intelligence on the ground so we know exactly, you know,...

You just said a few moments ago which i know you said this a couple of years ago, you would like to see the drone program moved from the cia and over to the pentagon. why has that not happened? >> turf battles. >> the cia doesnt want to give it up? >> failure to -- in all candor, obviously, and the president said a couple years ago he wanted them moved, and there is is some question about the capabilities and the equipment that the d.o.d. has as compared with cia. what this will do jim-s well re...

Program? >> i dont think the drone program should have been run out of the cia. the cia is an intelligence gathering operation. the operation, the drone program, should be operated exclusively out of the pentagon. you know, the air force has the capability of doing extensive targeting. you dont have those capabilities in the cia. i have talked to former cia people who have told me this. >> let me just ask you this final question. what do you say to republicans who look at this field and they say...

This is "state of the union." ohio governor kasich on other things. good morning from washington. i am jim acosta. president obama is promising a review of his drone program after two were killed and their deaths brought up new criticism of the strategy. and now joining me is senator mccain. thank you for joining us and getting up so early this morning. >> thank you, jim. >> you have had a couple days to mull this over. the drone strikes that resulted in the deaths of those two hostages. were ...

That we are not going to send boots on the ground to go and get those people and this is certainly understandable. >> and thats something white house press secretary said earlier this week we cannot conduct an bin laden style raid. you said you would like to see the drone program moved out from the cia and over to the pentagon. why has that not happened? >> turf battles. >> the cia doesnt want to give it up? >> failure -- in all candor obviously, and the president said a couple years ago he want...

Introducing the citi ® double cash card. it earns you cash back now and cash back later. with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay with two ways to earn on puchases, it makes a lot of other cards seem one-sided. welcome back to "taking the hill" on msnbc. im patrick murphy. the obama administrations drone program is under fire today following the presidents admission that two western hostages including an american were accidentally killed in a strike this winter. the program has taken hundreds

>> right. how about -- i wary in a sense the drone program which has been successful in a sense taking out targets. do you think because they use it as propaganda they dont try and put civilians, even if they werent part of the explosion, ones that had recently passed away -- do you worry that sometimes this could breed more terrorists or more of the local population overseas against the united states? >> look our approval rating in those areas of the world is horrible. we know that especially i...

Winestein, the american hostage, expressed disappointment in the help they got from the u.s. government. yesterday white house press secretary josh earnest said that the administration is considering what he called a fusion cell. this would be a way of streamlining communication between governmental agencies and families of the hostages. also, why didnt the u.s. government know there were hostages there? and also does the drone program need to be overhauled in some way? if you talk to intelligen...

They create or vice versa. there are civilian casualties. the administration downplay this is aspect. human rights organizations have a much higher estimate. there certainly have been hundreds of such casualties in the drone wars. and if you extrapolate from that -- those sort of mushy figures, certainly we have em bittered and angered some substantial number of people who probably have been gone on to join this group or join that group or otherwise impede what were trying to do over there. so, ...

Impact as well. they reflect strong american values. theyre fighting a brutal enemy and we have to go after them and thats the truth of it. because were human, we are going to make some mistakes. this is obviously a mistake that was made unintentional though it is. we use air strikes conventional weapons, to go after iraq and syria. we killed thousands of isis. im confident theres been a number of civilian casualties doing that as well. civilians being in the wrong place, wrong time that isis is...