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Try to solve their problems for them. so you think thats the root of it. >> i do. bill, i think its on the left and right. people on the left, and they had all this hope in barack obama. right? and he is on the verge of perhaps putting larry summers in as fed chairman. if you are a committed leftist, right? and you you are a community organizer, you really had a lot of hope in this guy obama and you look at the drone program or the nsa or the summers appointment or a lot of these other things th...

Try to solve their problems for them. so you think thats the root of it. >> i do. bill, i think its on the left and right. people on the left, and they had all this hope in barack obama. right? and he is on the verge of perhaps putting larry summers in as fed chairman. if you are a committed leftist, right? and you you are a community organizer, you really had a lot of hope in this guy obama and you look at the drone program or the nsa or the summers appointment or a lot of these other things th...

>> jon, how are you? sam? >> whats up? >> guys. >> it was like chaos before the show started. we had to move over here. >> so t.j. had apparently crushed up his ambien and snorted it. >> no one takes ambien in here. just me. >> willie doesnt. >> crazy me. >> do you take ambien? >> only with gin. >> i dont anymore. ive never been more hung out to dry yesterday than sitting around a table of six people. >> hold on. >> what? >> im on ambien now. >> really? >> yeah. >> why do you think i act this wa...

Droughns? i know youve been very critical about the drone program and the excessive use of droughns nes i pakistan? >> if the price of a successful price in pakistan is angering 200 million pakistanis, the fifth largest country in the world with nuclear weapons, thats a large price to pay. there are certainly moments to use drones and the president in the speech in may gestured at the idea that theyre going to be more careful about the use of drones. in pakistan weve seen some of that but in yem...

The word we have gotten is its about western facilities. >> so it opens the gate to more possibilities of who could be included in that description. so its not generally specific to us but most likely we would imagine. >> we would be the top target. >> roger, one thing we know the president is most likely going to be taking questions on is about his drone program. again, that press conference coming up here live at 3:00. the u.s. has been ramping up the drone strikes where yemeni officials say -...

Iraqi prisons. libyan prisons. it looks like some of these are truly the most hardened of terrorists out there. we got like 100 in custody or something. we. security forces have 100 in custody. a lot of questions about exactly how safe and how competent our approach to world affairs really can be. maybe thats the conservative message here. we cant control a lot of this stuff going on in the world. certainly hillarys tenure as secretary of state ultimately will be called into question when you ta...

Libyan prisons. it looks like some of these are truly the most hardened of terrorists out there. we got like 100 in custody or something. we. security forces have 100 in custody. a lot of questions about exactly how safe and how competent our approach to world affairs really can be. maybe thats the conservative message here. we cant control a lot of this stuff going on in the world. certainly hillarys tenure as secretary of state ultimately will be called into question when you talk about the fo...

Strikes against the leader, its great to have you back on the program. a lot of folks will look and point at the drone program and say, look. its much different than it was years ago and look at that as a victory. what do you make of that program and what were hearing now with this new terrorist threat? >> i like the drone program quite a bit and it is selectively successful. we pick up a target here, we pick up a target there. when we fire those drones, we generally alienate the population and ...

Which is not being aggressive in confronting -- >> the critics of the administrations drone program would say tim duncan in the face of terror. >> i was going to say even the presidents critics inside the cia have been surprised at his drone policy, bp surprised that hes adopted a lot of dick cheney and george w. bushs approach in the war on terror. i will agree with rick on one point, and that is we do live in a post-benghazi world, especially when it comes to embassy protection. and there are ...

>> reporter: it is not known how the planned attack would be carried out or the exact location. harris? >> thank you very much. the next guest calls the al qaeda threat very specific. republican congressman peter king of new york sits on the house homeland security committee, and chairman of the committee on counter terrorism and intelligence. he joins us by phone. congressman, are you with us? >> harris, i am with you, certainly i thank you. >> since we first learned about the threat a few da...