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Happened. >> reporter: thats right. its nothing thats going to turn the conflict around, talking about food, medical kits, communications equipment trucks, things the rebels have said is not enough to help them on the battlefield against assads forces the reason the u.s. had do it is a wake-up call for u.s. officials because these islamic groups, the so-called islamic front that seizesed the weapons, now these islamic groups are not only battling assads forces but battling moderate groups on the...

Kentucky! >> i think the takeaway there is freedom, firearms and coal, right? you wrote last week the kentucky race will play a big role in whether the gop takes back the senate overall. explain how critical this race is. >> republicans might pick up the senate and have a good chance to if they can get six seats but they have no margin for error to do that. if they give away seats that they should own like kentucky and georgia, i would add, that blows their whole shot. and right now, mcconnell i...

Members of congress about what oversight is like on intelligence matters especially on issues like this. they say yeah, we go into a room were not allowed to have any staffers were not allowed to take any notes and we get out were not allowed to talk to anybody about it. so tell me how strong an oversight -- >> they still get to vote on budgets, vote on the policies. they still get to do their role of oversight even though they dont have staffers there. >> right. >> they could certainly defund t...

Capable of any sort of political acuity in participating in the wider discussion. i mean, they got their chance, but they could not pull it off. they are not well organized enough to do it. they are confused as to who they should be fighting with and they do not appear to be able to fight a two-front war. meanwhile, on the other side, on the other side of this debate, that side has literally never been so organized and so ambitious as they are right now. the marquee powerful and rich political f...

Anywhere in the world and that therefore designates that war as taking place everywhere. the most frequent outside a war zone place where our government carries out these kinds of attacks is of course in pakistan. in 2010 we saw what the obama administration was going to be like on this score. there was a u.s. drone strike in pakistan roughly every three days in 2010. 9 new america foundation tracks these things and their record shows it was an unprecedented spike in terms of how frequently we w...

And that is the unnerving consequence of the whole yfd a war on terror or a war against a non-state actor that could be anywhere in the world and that therefore designates that war as taking place everywhere. the most frequent outside a war zone place where our government carries out these kinds of attacks is of course in pakistan. in 2010 we saw what the obama administration was going to be like on this score. there was a u.s. drone strike in pakistan roughly every three days in 2010. 9 new ame...

Or put thousands of american troops on the ground to go get them by some standard rules of warfare that some might think are better to prosecute a war -- >> i dont -- >> and i dont think thats the best way to necessarily prosecute this war. >> thats not what im arguing, though. and i dont think thats what this debate is about. i think that we kill people in wartime using all sorts of means that americans would find distasteful when viewing them from the comfort of our living rooms, right? >> abs...

Deniable, orwellian means of raining death from the sky all over the world even in places where were not technically at war and never admitting to it. does president obama appointing john brennan to run the cia mean that he does care about that critique from the left? or is it the opposite? by promoting the architect of the drone program weve got now is this a punch the hippie moment? stha sign hes happy for drone warfare to be his legacy and its becoming entrenched, its being promoted, its not ...

Which is killing people using planes that dont have pilots, using unmanned flying robots in far-away countries, what is often portrayed as novel and especially morally troubling about that means of killing people is that there isnt a person inside the plane. there isnt a person inside the plane that has the missiles on it. that the person piloting the aircraft and pulling the trigger to fire the missile used in that attack is actually thousands of miles away in virginia, say, or nevada rather th...

To be what bothers john brennan. he keeps saying it should be done by the military instead. the question is whether or not he is going to be in more of a position to change that if he runs cia or less. >> well, hes certainly going to be in a position thats a lot more accountable to congress, and hell be in a place where whenever the heads of the committees on intelligence call him down he can certainly answer questions about what hes doing, how hes doing it, how this war is being prosecuted. but...