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Afghanistan or yemen and actually be a able to pinpoint someone. i placed a $1 billion destroyer for four months out of my battle group when i went for the war in iraq after i came out from that short mission, placed it off yemen, four months a $1 billion warship sat there doing nothing but waiting to launch a tomahawk, less precise drone, that would go hundreds of miles in if we could get the intelligence that a certain operative we knew was there placed himself in a certain position. after tha...

Protestors are taking over some areas near the stadium. theres a strong and large police presence. >> 2,000 people living near the volcano in chile. they were told they had to evacuate after volcanic mud flow. there was a second explosion thursday. they warned the process could go on for weeks and they expect a third eruption. >> the pentagons drone policy now under review after the accidental deaths of two hostages held by al qaeda. both of them aid workers. but the family says its not just the...

Some of these strong libertarian non-interventionist positions. i do wish this would promote a real debate on drones. i think there is a question of are we overusing them. i mean they are a -- sort of targeted assassination in a high tech way. how much do we want to do this and how much does our drone campaign create new enemies for us? so i hope we reexamine this drones are going to be part of our arsenal. this is very troubling. there are other incidents that have happened. i think the adminis...

Innocence. and yet, americans die because of that. everyone regrets the loss of warren weinstein the american aid worker that was killed accidently. two other american citizens were killed in the drone strikes because they had joined al qaeda. that is a subject i think that people like rand paul might want to engage on. >> what susan says is true. whenever ive seen a poll on this people asked about the drone program, and the objections its been raised. whether its american citizens that are kill...

Al qaeda operative but also inadvertently killed two hostages, one of them an american contractor the other an italian aid worker. how soon the question was would jeb and scott and rand and ted and marco start speaking out and lashing out at the presidents drone program. actually, that didnt happen. instead, there were lots of messages of sympathy for the hostages and their families. no direct criticism of obama or his administrations policies. so what will americas drone policy be a debate in t...

President obama now says the white house will review its drone program following the accidental killing of two western hostages held by al qaeda. will their deaths be the catalyst that turns the public against the highly controversial program. joining me former new mexico governor bill richardson who served as u.s. secretary of energy ambassador to the united nations and u.s. congressman. welcome to you sir. nice to se you as always. i would like to ask you, is this cause to reconsider the drone...

Targeting an al qaeda compound that also killed giovanni la porto. the white house has authorized two separate probes including one by a separate independent panel. >> this is a situation where accountability and some transparency is important. >> reporter: that didnt satisfy critics, who say that they failed to meet the governments own guidelines. a spokesman for the aclu saying, "these and other recent strikes in which civilians were killed make clear that there is a significant gap between th...

Foreign policy about counterterrorism. they are about how we choose to do war. and obamas first and second were referendums on the bush wars. and this election in a way will be a referendum on what president obama has done how he has conducted war. in some cases convertly that might not put boots on the ground but they can never be error free. where accidents will happen as we found out this week. if all goes as planned there are only terrorists and no civilians in the vehicle or object being ta...

Doesnt matter how good your plan is theres always a chance of losing american soldiers in a fire fight during an operation in far away lands. the american people got to make up their mind. and so the drone program is a great program to do this type of thing and i think its something we have to continue to work and its unfortunate when these things happen. we work through our systems, but this is a critical operation for our counterterrorism program. >> as you know bob, the pakistani government t...

Personnel to be on the ground and then just to the country generally. there isnt the possibility that things go wrong if youre sending in a seal team to pakistan or deploying a large number of troops into yemen, for example. so the obama administration has seized on the drone policy and ramped up the number of drone strikes significantly since 2009. and i dont see any indication that its backing away overall globally from the drone program. >> so what have we gotten from this? its been ramped up...