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Work. it would be great if we lived in a world with no isis, but we dont. >> do you think weve become more isolationist under -- or noninterventionalist under president obama? >> i think president obama has been less willing to get into stupid wars than the previous administration. i think that is definitely for sure. but you cannot take away from the fact that he has taken some of the worst terrorists off the battlefield in yemen, pakistan afghanistan, osama bin laden is no longer a threat. and...

Strongly oppose the senator. there is a new ad from a republican group. >> the senate is considering tough new sanctions on iran. president obama says he will veto them. and rand paul is standing with him. rand paul supports obamas negotiations with iran. and he doesnt understand the threat. >> you know, its ridiculous to think that there they are a threat to our national security. >> rand paul is wrong. and dangerous. tell him to stop siding with obama because even one iranian bomb would be a d...

Us looking at more of a balance of power in the region not the united states being the so-called firefighter, putting out the fires, but in the process stoking regional conflicts and making the situation much more threatening to the united states. >> why does the situation clearly states irans intentions of being as disruptive as possible and in many different positions of the world as they can find? >> i think the perception in more places in the middle east around the world is that its our ers...

Decline right before osama bin ladens death. the documents seized from bin ladens compound and released during a trial last month include letters written to and from the terror leader in 2010. many of them reflecting concern about the cia drone program, wiping out key al qaeda leaders in pakistan. bin laden was even warned by a top operative to keep communications to a minimum and to take excessive caution. he was killed weeks later. all right. it is the nfl version of march madness. im talkin...

How a discredited story like his iraq anecdote got on the air. where were his executive producers, the people fact checking brian williams? they were not there. >> he doesnt have fans internally right now. >> i heard many stories. he suppressed stories, suppressed isikoffs story on drone program, justification of killing american citizens with drones rational behind that. brian williams did not want that on "nightly news." brian williams also did not want tough lisa meyers on obama care. saying ...

Drone program, its not measuring up? >> as we see it while it contributes to border security, they havent put mez measure s in place as to if it is effective. the measurements with saw show it is not effective. >> reporter: the inspector general said his job is to point out where money is wasted and the drones he said are indeed a waste and yet they still fly and congress even debating whether to buy more. to tom barry its a clear example of congress and the customs and board er patrol simply ig...

Issues about what the nsa does, the wiretapping, the data collection. theyre obviously going to be civil libertarians on the right, civil libertarians on the left that are against this. you start hearing this you can see those polls going up. its kind of like on drones. i think im in the minority on drones but, you know what, americans see the crisis drop the drones drop them anywhere. we dont care. >> its why president obama was able to go back on his campaign commitments about guantanamo, abou...

A a report revealing the shocking price tag of the border patrol drone program. according to hole land security operating nine drones cost 28,000 dollars per arrest. the drones were credited for just over 2000 arrests about 2 percent of the total amount made. >> 35,000 dollars in back taxes that is how much money illegal immigrants could get through the controversial immigration policies. according to a new report that is possible for a illegal family of four. they get all of that 35,000 once th...

Much less information about than the indivials -- the 119 captured. >> reporter: mike azenco has been following and criticizing the drone program for years. >> one of the reasons the cia became so active in drone strikes was out of concern that they would be prosecuted for torture. >> reporter: so they were worried about holding them and torturing them and decided, eh, its better just to kill them instead? >> this is what the cias response to the torture report makes very clear. >> reporter: in ...

We have made tremendous progress. i think you have to build trust every day. policing cant just be about an absence of crime. its got to be a presence of justice. >> these things that happens to black men is something no one should go through. >> all in their own words. its a tough conversation. but you know what? maybe we need to have uncomfortable conversations like that. when we return, back to the war against terrorists. and the u.s. drone program that many see as being every bit as wrong ...