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Women in danger, to have the commander-in-chief with such swagger about killing, whether you support the drone program or not could it put lives in danger? >> i think it does, we have seen s.e.a.l. leaks, i spent time with vaughn -- if youre letting out secrets about what youre doing and bragging about it, they want their bite at the apple, too. and a comment like this, even if it was private is disturbing for vets and military members to hear. >> the white house was asked about the book. it has...

Disturbing report out on presidential hubris tonight. a book on the 2012 election claims that president obama has been bragging to aides that he is "really good at killing people." which has critics asking whether that is the right tone for a u.s. president. ceo of concerned veterans for america and two-time combat vet is here with reaction, he is speaking of the drone war, but the comment "im really good at killing people," your thoughts as a vet. >> as a vet, there could be a problem with that...

Favoring drone program with such lethal results and the death of bin laden. turns sout i am glad at killing people. didnt know that was a strong suit of mine. interesting. >> clearly your hero was bragging about the mass killing of people. it maws make you feel good. if this was a republican president you would love the f out of it and you know it. that was an awesome line. that sounds like something schwarzenegger would say during a job interest screw in a shoot em up. it tons out i am good at ...

Shooting. he was shot in the face. according to some investigators i talked to, could well be some brain damage here. theres a question, certainly not talking now, theres a question if he ever will. >> nbcs pete williams, thank you for the update. >> okay. >> drone program, targeted killing, other more secret operations within our national security apparatus. well discuss dirty wars coming up next. when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals: help the gulf recover and learn fro...

People. this is also in the wake, you remember, of osama bin laden being killed. when this quote sort of leaked over the weekend, a lot of critics of the drone program, a lot of civil liberties folks on twitter were sort of, you know, interested, intrigued by that quote. president obama has a nobel peace prize and here hes saying hes really good at killing people. that was one of the more interesting tidbts that has come out of the book so far. >> the other is the empty chair, clint eastwood mom...

Trouble. gina, we love you. good luck to you and jason. wrap things up for me. back at 11:00 a.m. eastern. "now" with alex wagner coming up next. hi, alex. >> hi, thomas. republicans are once again resorting to f word filibustering two key presidential nominees and democrats are threatening to go nuclear. well discuss the myth of court packing in the gops judicial blockade. plus a look at the human face of the u.s. drone program. my conversation with a pakistani family torn apart by a deadly str...

Can you really trust these other countries? >> the alternative is to see casualties that are staggering among innocent people. the 200 children i mentioned. all the estimates are that between 10% and 30% of the people whom we kill by drone attacks are completely innocent, including this grandmother in her 60s. >> i hear you, and i know that so much of this for you and so many others who ive talked to on this program say so much of this is about whats dubbed this phrase collateral damage, the kil...

As with all drone strikes, the full impact is difficult to verify, because the program remains highly confidential, and the strikes tend to take place in regions far away from the borders of this country. but tomorrow, one family will bring their story to the very heart of congress as they share with lawmakers what happened on october the 24th of last year. a date when they say their family was suddenly obliterated by a series of drone strikes in pakistan. rafik raymond and his two surviving chi...

Where im just a teacher, ive noticed that ever since the drones have started, that families are scared to send their children to school. not out of fear of a terrorist, but out of fear these drones will come on to their children. before in my school, i used to teach 50 children. now i only teach 20 on a good day. no one wants to send their children there. no one wants to play outside. no one wants to play soccer anymore. no one wants to play cricket anymore. what i believe is, yes, such events c...

They would also like to see killed as well as the u.s. >> does this at all change the conversation there in pakistan? does it at all amend the opinion of the united states as being a sort of foreign invader? >> i think itll certainly push the conversation along. i think itll make it much more difficult for the government to brush away those hard questions, if you like, about what knowledge senior officials have about the program. the prime minister, hes only been in power since june, and his off...