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Senators. they're willing to kind of break some china and mccain and lindsey graham are coming right back at them. as you said, in support of a democratic president. >> john, what did you see yesterday? >> well, i think it's interesting. "time" says in its headline, the drone debate scrambles both left and right. there are a set of issues, and particularly issues that resolve around civil iberties that standard partisan categories don't work very well. it's not only that there's fractures, fissures, you have pat leahy, totally respectable democratic senator who voted no on the brennan confirma...

Get better today by use of this tactic? >> i think the american people certainly know more about the fundamental question, which is we have to strike a better balance, rachel, between protecting our security and protecting our liberty. i've just come off a two-year effort, made seven separate requests to get the obama administration to release these previously secret legal analyses which offer the justification for the drone debate. the reason i went to the floor today, i thought it was an opportune time to try to show that there is a new effort by both progressives and conservatives to try to...

Transparency on drones, did it get better today by use of this tactic? >> i think the american people certainly know more about the fundamental question, which is we have to strike a better balance, rachel, between protecting our security and protecting our liberty. i've just come off a two-year effort, made seven separate requests to get the obama administration to release these previously secret legal analyses which offer the justification for the drone debate. the reason i went to the floor today, i thought it was an opportune time to try to show that there is a new effort by both progressi...

Who did the work coming forward, talking about it. >> and watching our current leaders now, president obama administration to both sides, they don't seem to know what to say about the iraq war anymore. they don't want to say what i think some of them believe, which is it was -- should have never have happened. >> yeah. >> you do get that sense. >> it is the subject nobody wants to talk about it, which is one reason we wanted to do this documentary tonight. just two quick points i want to make, relevance to today. first of all, we have this whole drone debate. we've been talking about all based...

Get a sealy queen set for just $399. even get 3 years interest-free financing on tempur-pedic. but only through presidents' day at sleep train. >> bill: personal story segment tonight. howard kurtz on cnn said i misspoke when criticizing nbc news analysis of the drone situation. >> well, that's kind of curious, given it was an nbc scoop, so o'reilly obviously misspoke and i thought he would just come back the next night and correct the record. bill, the only reason there is a drone debate right now is because nbc news revealed that memo. >> bill: are you kidding me, howard? are you kidding me?...