administration's -- the overseas legal rationale for its decision that it can kill american citizens in certain circumstances if they are an al qaeda operative. >> whether they can do that here. >> without due process, and on this, on this issue, particularly on national security issues, i feel like there really has been a transparency problem. i want to show a little bit of montage of the white house responding to questions about say the drone program over the years. >> in the google video chat the president acknowledged for the first time the classified drone program. >> i'm sorry, can you be more specific. >> the former director of national intelligence, retired admiral dennis blair, said i believe yesterday that drone attacks, unilateral drone attacks in pakistan actually did more harm to u.s. national security interests than good. does the white house have any opinion about these remarks? >> we believe our relationship with pakistan is essential to