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Obscure cousin, and somebody shady shows up to the we have hadding, somebody on the other side can look at the screen, push a button and a few minutes later you don't exist anymore. i was really shaken when i read about the specific drone strikes, people not feeling safe anymore. looking up at the sky, wondering when they could be struck. and i wanted to sort of bring that feeling home. this drone war has been going on for ten years. it is fairly obscure. it is clandestine. i wanted to bring that feeling back to the american people so it could stir our conscience and we could think about it an...

The very beginning. >> i'm not sure what you're talking about. >> one at a time, please. >> so let me ask you the question directly. do you distinguish between the rights of u.s. citizens in the drone war and the rights of people who are nonu.s. citizens? do you make any distinctions? >> of course not. everybody has the same rights under international law. there's a question as to who can get into an american court but we don't make that distinction. the bottom line is everybody has the same rights under international law. they have the right not to be killed based on secret evidence, on secre...

>> it is. first of all, the whole story is the reminder while the rest of the mideast appears to be blowing up, we're still actively fighting a very aggressive drone war in yemen that's killing people and if our reporting is correct, making lots of enemies. while president obama did acknowledge that civilians have been killed by u.s. drone strikes in that speech last may which you showed, it is extremely rare for the u.s. government to comment about any particular drone strike, much less acknowledge it is investigating whether or not that strike killed civilians. but that's what happened here....

Enemies. >> this is sort of the "homeland" generation, what gets put in motion when a drone strike arrives. it seems that the obama administration has, if anything, increased their reliance on drones. is there any evidence to the contrary? >> well, look, certainly over the course of the entire obama white house, there was that dramatic increase in drone strikes in the first few years. last year as criticism began over drone strikes, there was some reduction, but i think, you know, one of the things this footage does is remind us that while everything else seems to be blowing up in the mideast,...

U.s. officials decline comment on who was killed in a rare acknowledgement, they tell nbc news they have launched an internal investigation into the strike. >> an internal investigation into the strike in yemen launched internally meaning inside the obama administration. that is not the kind of news, not the kind of review we are used to hearing about after reports like this. nbc's michael isikoff is live with us for more. mike, u.s. officials telling you they have launched an internal investigation into this. is this a rare development? it seems rare to me. >> it is. first of all, the whole s...