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>> that a good question. right now the group is under pressure but most of it is from drones and airstrikes. but the yemeni government right now, we have to remember that arab spring, in egypt meu barry goes to prison. sulla didnt lose, he just stepped down from being the president. he is still a political figure. there is all of these tensions, behind the scenes maneuvering between the different factions and the yemeni government doesnt have complete control over large portions of the country r...

Not necessarily a guantanamo expert. if something were to be able to be worked out and these 59 guys were shipped from cuba home to yemen, like the yemeni government is searching for, would that be the key to closing guantanamo? >> i think it would be a large step towards closing guantanamo. i think theres a deeper issue here, a bigger issue, and that is keeping people indefinitely detained outside the legal framework. president obama is very clear he wants to close guantanamo bay, but at the sa...

0 pressure of debt which is something you cant quantify. thats one of the biggest scourges and the scandal that we let it go on. really, thank you very much. this is a hopeful promising story. thank you for being here. t"the rachel maddow show" start now. >> happy friday. thanks for being with us. kind of a news day like only happens in the movies. the headline this morning was about a july heist in france. specifically specifically at the cannes film festival. there were jewels under a safe. ...

0 particular heist looks like the work of the pink panthers, but they are not ruling them out yet. and, no, that is not my dog. then this evening, also at cannes, shots of some kind, shots were fired during a live tv broadcast at the festival, which sent the audience and movie stars running for cover. police arrested a man in possession of a fake grenade and a starting pistol. so a thing that looks like a gun and can make a sound like a gun, but it does not fire real bullets. polices initial s...

tv broadcast at the festival, which sent the audience and movie stars running for cover. police arrested a man in possession of a fake grenade and a starting pistol. so a thing that looks like a gun and can make a sound like a gun, but it does not fire real bullets. polices initial statement about the guy they arrested is that he seems to be, quote, a crazy guy. dont get mad at me for saying crazy. thats what the police said in france. also today, reports of a video that appears to s...

today, nijars ambassador says he has agreed to let the u.s. military put drones in his country in an effort to gain intelligence on mali, algeria and libya, three spots where we have seen a recent explosion in al qaeda linked attacks on americans. eric schmidt is senior writer for the "new york times" covering terrorism. he broke the story this morning that the u.s. is planning a drone base in niger. the lieutenant general oversaw the first predator drone strike in 2001. in such a cruc...

eric schmidt is senior writer for the "new york times" covering terrorism. he broke the story this morning that the u.s. is planning a drone base in niger. the lieutenant general oversaw the first predator drone strike in 2001. in such a crucial question as this war on al qaeda ramps up again, eric, you reported on it today, how big of a deal is had? >> this is a major development by the u.s. military. it creates an intelligence hub in a former french colony right below libya, next to...

good evening. im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, attack of the drones. the american government is launching a new war, some of this countrys 7500 drones may be about to take off with new targets in their sights. today, nijars ambassador says he has agreed to let the u.s. military put drones in his country in an effort to gain intelligence on mali, algeria and libya, three spots where we have seen a recent explosion in al qaeda linked attacks on americans. eric schmidt is senior write...

he hadnt been prepared for it, and he went to his mother and said i was trained as a naval officer. he didnt learn to be an admirable king and they did -- they were tough on them. i think one of the difficulties was the possibility that the duke and duchess of windsor could have lived in england that would set up a parallel course i think it would have been extremely difficult to have an x and a current king living in the same place that for that reason they wanted them to live somepla...

india, peru, and estonia, for example. professional economists and investors, political scientists, and all sorts abundance are not particularly good at predicting success for that matter. many are not even good at looking back and explaining why some countries have succeeded and why some have failed. the inability to predict the future is understandable, since that depends on all sorts of complex factors and also a very frequent, arbitrary decision of politicians. there is, however, s...