laden but a record number of predator drone strikes, three times as many as we saw in the last year of the bush administration when then president bush stepped it up. so this is part of an overall strategy that obama s been pursuing for some time. one of the things i report is that there was a meeting, you know, early on in 2009 where panetta went to obama and said, look, these are the things we need in pakistan additional facilities, additional predators. obama said you re getting it all. i want you to have it all. this is part of a bigger picture, alex. what s fascinating is what you just said. you think this would have been the same doctrine from the bush administration. president bush said i want to get osama bin laden. and yet you say that despite the last year of stepped-up prone predator drone attacks, rather, there was that going on. what did not happen in the bush administration and why? well, one big difference is that obama very early on, you know, criticized bush, e
we do launch our predator drone strikes there. while at the same time giving them billions in aid, even with their known links to taliban and islamic extremists, not to mention the knowledge that bin laden is living just outside of islamabad. now there s congressional pressure to revisit our relationship with the pakistani military and intelligence services, what did they know, were they hiding osama bin laden. and with us is congressman tom rooney, who visited pakistan just two weeks ago, coming within 30 miles surely unknowingly of osama bin laden s hideout. congressman, it s a pleasure to have you back. we ve had some very interesting analysis in this program around the pakistani relationship. brett mcghurk citing the perceived abandonment narrative that exists in pakistan going back to the united states withdrawal from relations with them in 1989. how would you suggest we model this 21st century foreign policy that clearly is going to have to be hammered out not just
a police force in mourning after a sheriff s deputy is gunned down in the line of duty and investigators saying two deputies respond today a home in venus, texas for domestic disturbance call. according to witnesses, the police entered a shed on the property and then the gunfire rang out and the shots hitting deputy clifton taylor three times and he was flown to a fort worth hospital where he was pronounced dead and the suspect shot and killed by deputies. a new warning from n.a.t.o. as the u.s. launches more predator drone strikes in libya. warning to stay clear of forces because muammar gaddafi s men are in the cross hairs and the pentagon announcing the first drone missile strikes earlier today and the n.a.t.o. spokesmen confirming the second and hell fire missiles took out anti-air defenses in tripoli and new reports of explosions
a control room in tel aviv to destabilize the arab world. a control room in tel aviv. it is managed from the white house, all of it. let no one lie to another. every day we hear obama s statements. egypt, don t do this. tunisia, don t do that. it is not your business in egypt. it is not your business in oman. it is not your business in palestine. are you the president of the united states of america or the president of the arab world? those comments from yemen s president were edited out when that speech aired again later on yemen state-run television at the request of his advisers. t.j. crowley said there s no conspiracy at play. jill dougherty joins us live. i was fascinated by this, jill, because that president has actually been very closely linked with the united states, both publicly and especially in wikileaks released cables. they ve allowed predator drone
because that president has actually been very closely linked with the united states, both publicly and especially in wikileaks released cables. they ve allowed predator drone strikes, a lot of contact with the u.s. has a lot of contact with security forces there. so he s under a lot of pressure obviously from demonstrations in the streets and it would appear as if he s just sort of publicly trying to distance himself from the u.s. to give him more i guess credibility on the streets. this is a perfect example of the dilemma for the white house and the state department, because he plays in to exactly what can be on the minds of a lot of people. if you go back to libya, moammar gadhafi has been saying that the reason all of this is happening is because of an outside plot, an international plot. also, there is certainly the subtext in that region that the united states or the outside, let s say the west would want to invade, because of the oil that