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Claimed responsibility the mall attack in kenya that left 60 people dead. s.e.a.l. team six carried out the raid. it's unclear whether he was killed during the firefight. join me now, jim miklaszewski. jima lot of questions around this raid. first and foremost the structure of the operation, drones used in counter-terrorism operations, is this the new model going forward, special forces going in for a strike. >> as you well know the obama administration has come under quite a bit of criticism for it's almost total reliance on drone strikes, missiles fired from predator drones in what some peop...

Debt ceiling. does that mean he's uncompromising. >> you look back stakes of the negotiation are radically different than they have been since 1981. >> actually, i don't think they are. but the deficit is radically different and radically higher than it has been. there's a cbo report just two weeks ago that said, look, if you don't address the long-term things this drop will be very temporary. you need to sit down talk about medicare, medicaid, social security, food stamps, farm programs. there's a lot of things in this. right now that's simply not happening. i don't think it's asking the pres...

Trajectory. positive positive. the idea you need to strap the suicide vest to your chest to get the other side to pay attention to you is clearly not warranted by what's going on. so the question is why are they doing it? >> congressman, i want to ask you, too, about nbc news had the whip count of 22 republicans who said they would vote for a clean bill of funding. we're talking about the cr and not debt ceiling. i asked you as deputy whip, moderates, moderates in back rooms, moderates out there who would join with democrats and end a government shutdown and pass a clean bill of funding, do yo...

Chickasaw nation and you've come out and said you thought the name of the team was insensitive. i wonder today after the president has made his remarks echoing sort of the same sentiment whether you think the redskins should change their name? >> i do. i've never equivocated about that. i have a lot of respect for them as a football program, great tradition, won super bowls. i don't have anything to say about the team. the team is inappropriate. it's offensive to a lot of people. certainly to me but a lot of others, millions of others. i wish they would look at changing it. i don't think it's ...

Important. while they may not be the sacrosanct pentagon, everyone is afraid to touch the pentagon because that touches that live rail of national security, there are a lot of other dimensions of national security that have nothing to do with arms and facing missiles. the future of our children, science, investments in cancer, those are part of national security as well. >> it's about shifting the conversation instead of these governments aren't worth funding to why should we shut down programs and actually putting conservatives and republicans on the defense on why they think it's important t...