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Informational 13 drones were shot down by ukrainian air defense. well done. i am proud of you. >> with smoke still rising from a government office in kiev, authorities surveyed the damage below hours after a russian drone strike. >> this morning the terrorists started firing drones. all 13 were shot down by our ukrainian air defense systems. well done, i'm proud. >> nearby residents began fixing windows in freezing temperatures side-by-side with investigators examining the scene. right here you see fragments of the iranian drone or one of the 13 that were shot down this morning. some damage he...

That. this stunned a lot of us. did you know this tape was out there? >> i was not aware of the tape. i know there had been gatherings in yemen. i did not expect the tape to be made public at this time. it should be a wakeup call to all americans, particularly our government as to how serious a threat there is from al qaeda. bill: we have been firing drones into yemen for more than a year, right? >> we have been doing it longer than that. we killed al-awlaki in 2011. i want to know whether our intelligence people knew about it. if they did not know about it, why not. if we did know about it, w...

Agency have been saying since 2005 and 2006 when they shut down the program. sure. there was one person in the agency who was asked by a very high ranking administration official. in case the program shut down, what do you do now? two choices. either try to capture them and interrogate them or kill them. you have just made killing everybody that you may consider a terrorist to be the only thing we can do which, fine, fine. if that is your approach, great. think about all of the intel that goes with that policy and, gene robinson, there has to be a middle ground here. you got a president that i...

Do you act unilaterally in pakistan. are you comfortably to act unilaterally without maybe telling an ally like pakistan that you might be firing drones in their country? >> i think in a setting like this one where osama bin laden was identified to be hiding in pakistan, that it was entirely appropriate for this president to move in and to take him out. i have no compunction about that at all. that was the right course for him to take. i supported that at the time and do now. in a similar circumstance, i think other presidents and other candidates like myself would do exactly the same thing. >...

Isakof what we know about the germans reportedly killed in the missile strike in pakistan. >> we don't know a whole lot about the germans killed in this particular drone strike because we don't know a lot about who gets killed in any of these drone strikes. by definition, these are strikes in areas where u.s. intelligence and law enforcement, it does not center easy access nor for that matter to the pakistanis. that's why we're firing drones at them because we can't send troops there, we can't put boots on the ground there nor are the pakistanis doing it. so what we get are claims of strikes, ...