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this in an interview, cbs's ""60 minutes"," the president challenges the political partisanship. he says republican strategy cuts him off at the knees. >> i think the republicans made a different calculation, which was, you know what, we really screwed up the economy. obama seems popular. our best bet is to stand on the sidelines because we think the economy will get worse and at some point just blame him. so we haven't gotten the kind of engagement from them that i would have liked. all right. a lot of political buzz this morning that's centering on the weekend's gop debate. it wa...

Flaunted the responsibility to go to the congress. he doesn't get permission. and we went over -- it wouldn't have happened without our money and our drones and our missiles and all. and it happened so. so we're responsible for the chaos. >> you think the drone war this administration is waging is illegal? >> yes, it is. it's illegal under international law. and there's no authority in our constitution that we can just willy-nilly drop bombs on anybody that we want. we kill innocent people this way. why do you think people hate us? because, there's so much collateral damage. you see, oh, this ...

Go to the congress. he doesn't get permission. and we went over -- it wouldn't have happened without our money and our drones and our missiles and all. and it happened so. so we're responsible for the chaos. >> you think the drone war this administration is waging is illegal? >> yes, it is. it's illegal under international law. and there's no authority in our constitution that we can just willy-nilly drop bombs on anybody that we want. we kill innocent people this way. why do you think people hate us? because, there's so much collateral damage. you see, oh, this is a bad guy, we'll drop a bomb...

Volunteer and go over there and send your money. but i don't, as a president, have the authority to go. if our national security is threatened, then you do it properly. this president now has gone in there on his own, he has flaunted the responsibility to go to the congress. he doesn't get permission. and we went over -- it wouldn't have happened without our money and our drones and our missiles and all. and it happened. so we're responsible for the chaos. >> do you think the drone war this administration is waging is illegal? >> yes, it is. it's illegal under international law. and there's no...

Still up in the air, you had issues in saudi arabia that were tampered down, oman was an issue, yemen has fired you and we still don't know what's happening inside syria. this entire region could very well be known as the year that the dictators went down, what kind of a future does it hold, what kind of government takes place here, what kind of policy, how does that affect the u.s. policy in the middle east, these are wide open questions we'll go through throughout the morning as we bring in some terrific guests over the next two hours. martha. martha: bill, thank you. as you know, the u.s....