he goes by abu al raqi. he was taken by u.s. forces onto a ship now believed to be in the mediterranean. this is a rendition, as the intelligence term of art. he ll be brought to the u.s. to stand trial. he s been indicted in a new york court. we are seeing hard nosed tactics as an alternative to the use of predator drone strikes. this is following up president obama s speech and new policy. so we are putting our own troops on the ground at risk to try to grab key al qaeda people. it s a sign that the fight in north africa is getting more difficult. the u.s. is committed to it. finally, to me, joe, it s a sign that as u.s. power retreats to the world as the war this is afghanistan and iraq end we
publicly that president bush had ordered her not to give information about an important program, it would have been a front page story in the new york times and every other liberal paper in the country. one of the few left leaning guys who did take notice of what gibbs said was my pal jon stewart who asked this question about gibbs. can we trust him? when you were working as press secretary. you were drones. other u.s. officials have confirmed these predator drone strikes. i m not going to get into. operational. i m not going to get into these matters. drone strike killed 8 germans in pakistan today. do you have any information about that? i don t. and if i did, if i did, i wouldn t get into it. here is a a tip for aspiring truth spoofs out there. i didn t know anything about that and even if i did i wouldn t tell you. [ laughter ] that person knows something about that.
the next 24 hours and then blow up into a big storm, a nor easter, possibly a blizzard as we go through new england. friday night, saturday morning, no one s going to want to be traveling in new england. thanks so much, bill. president obama s nominee to head the cia can look forward to a grilling on capitol hill this morning. during confirmation hearings, john brennan will be asked to explain the legal justification tore predator drone strikes against u.s. citizens. they re expected to zero in as his chief counter-terrorism adviser, specifically what he knew and when he knew it. his knowledge of the administration s use of the tactic faces scrutiny after the release of confidential government documents. drones are used to kill americans believed to be leaders of al qaeda. that news brought backlash from both sides of the aisle along with demands of the administration s legal justification for the strikes. the white house bound to growing political pressure and agreed to hand over
what do you say to those republicans who say that you are spending way too much time talking about divisive cultural issues, that they don t want to get into a culture war, and if you re a nominee, this would doom you with women voters and in fact with independent voters. you know they re coming from high places in washington. the gallup poll said we re leading among women, and we re doing well. people care about families, people care about what s happening to our society. but i do get these questions, as john king tried to do, on contraception and other things that are sort of outrageous types of questions. and then the next question from the reporter is, why are you talking so much about social issues? so they ask, and then they say you re talking about social issues all the time. i understand the game and we re just going to stay on message about what we re going to do to make this country more prosperous, build up a strong foundation for our country which clearly is,
in fact with independent voters. you know they re coming from high places in washington. the gallup poll said we re leading in washington, we care about families, what is happening tooy society. i do get the questions, as john king tried to do on contraception and other things that are outrageous questions, and then the neck question is why are you talking so much about social issues? they ask and then they say, you re talking about social issues all the time. look, i understand the game. and we re just going to go out and continue to stay on message about what we re going to do to make this country more prosperous, build up a strong foundation of our country, which clearly is, as i talked about before, we have to do something to help strengthen the american family, and i m going to continue to talk about those things. thanks very much. good to see you. you got the microphone here. back to you, anderson. john king is on the stage with ron paul. john? anderson, to resp