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the next 24 hours and then blow up into a big storm, a nor'easter, possibly a blizzard as we go through new england. friday night, saturday morning, no one's going to want to be traveling in new england. >> thanks so much, bill. president obama's nominee to head the cia can look forward to a grilling on capitol hill this morning. during confirmation hearings, john brennan will be asked to explain the legal justification tore predator drone strikes against u.s. citizens. they're expected to zero in as his chief counter-terrorism adviser, specifically what he knew and when he knew it. his knowledge of the administration's use of the tactic faces scrutiny after the release of confidential government documents. drones are used to kill americans believed to be leaders of al qaeda. that news brought backlash from both sides of the aisle along with demands of the administration's legal justification for the strikes. the white house bound to growing political pressure and agreed to hand over the documents to congress.
rahman, whose killing was reported this weekend. now, there's a lot of issues around these predator drone strikes, how many innocents they kill, how many times they target these people and get an innocent target. there's a lot of stuff to wonder about. the legality of these killings, it's very, very dubious to say the least. are they assassinations prohibited by american law or is this acceptable method of war against a terror group that attacked the united states? is not in doubt, is if you move up to al qaeda number three, which as we said, without osama bin laden is now al qaeda number two, you have absolutely no chance of collecting your al qaeda pension. [ woman ] jogging stroller. you've been stuck in the garage while i took refuge from the pollen that made me sneeze. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, wbr-id="wbr30580"/> i get prescription strength relief
whose killing was reported this weekend. now, there's a lot of issues around these predator drone strikes, how many innocents they kill, how many times they target these people and get an innocent target. there's a lot of stuff to wonder about the legality of these killings, it's very, very dubious to say the least. are they assassinations prohibited by american law or is this acceptable method of war against a terror group that attacked the united states, plenty to wonder there, but what is not in doubt, is if you move up to al qaeda number three, which as we said, without osama bin laden is now al qaeda number two, you have absolutely no chance of collecting your al qaeda pension. [ male announcer ] for sore muscles use new bengay cold therapy. it's pro-cool technology releases armies of snowmen masseuse, who cuddle up with your soreness
weekend. now, there's a lot of issues around these predator drone strikes, how many innocents they kill, how many times they target these people and get an innocent target. there's a lot of stuff to wonder about the legality of these killings, it's very, very dubious to say the least. are they assassinations prohibited by american law or is this acceptable method of war against a terror group that attacked the united states, plenty to wonder there, but what is not in doubt, is if you move up to al qaeda number three, which as we said, without osama bin laden is now al qaeda number two, you have absolutely no chance of collecting your al qaeda pension. [ male announcer ] germs in your mouth build up
lasting impact on afghanistan, we're building a client state where your son was killed unfortunately in a civilian attack on the village, we will give you $11,000 for your son's life. we will build an irrigation canal. now, we have large numbers of afghanises who know the americans have the money and give us some money and they don't care who's there and not there, they will be there the next 50, 60 years. >> there's two ways of looking at this. one is u.s. security and the other is afghan security. you have to take them separately. being there this long has allowed us to kill bin laden. period end of sentence, that's the truth. you need bases to fly from, the predator drone strikes may have forced him out of waziristan to an area we couldn't drop bombs. for security part there was some good being in afghanistan. as far as afghans go, i'm not
laden but a record number of predator drone strikes, three times as many as we saw in the last year of the bush administration when then president bush stepped it up. so this is part of an overall strategy that obama's been pursuing for some time. one of the things i report is that there was a meeting, you know, early on in 2009 where panetta went to obama and said, look, these are the things we need in pakistan -- additional facilities, additional predators. obama said you're getting it all. i want you to have it all. this is part of a bigger picture, alex. >> what's fascinating is what you just said. you think this would have been the same doctrine from the bush administration. president bush said i want to get osama bin laden. and yet you say that despite the last year of stepped-up prone -- predator drone attacks, rather, there was that going on. what did not happen in the bush administration and why? >> well, one big difference is that obama very early on, you know, criticized bush, even back
we do launch our predator drone strikes there. while at the same time giving them billions in aid, even with their known links to taliban and islamic extremists, not to mention the knowledge that bin laden is living just outside of islamabad. now there's congressional pressure to revisit our relationship with the pakistani military and intelligence services, what did they know, were they hiding osama bin laden. and with us is congressman tom rooney, who visited pakistan just two weeks ago, coming within 30 miles surely unknowingly of osama bin laden's hideout. congressman, it's a pleasure to have you back. we've had some very interesting analysis in this program around the pakistani relationship. brett mcghurk citing the perceived abandonment narrative that exists in pakistan going back to the united states' withdrawal from relations with them in 1989. how would you suggest we model this 21st century foreign policy that clearly is going to have to be hammered out not just
>> a police force in mourning after a sheriff's deputy is gunned down in the line of duty and investigators saying two deputies respond today a home in venus, texas for domestic disturbance call. according to witnesses, the police entered a shed on the property and then the gunfire rang out and the shots hitting deputy clifton taylor three times and he was flown to a fort worth hospital where he was pronounced dead and the suspect shot and killed by deputies. a new warning from n.a.t.o. as the u.s. launches more predator drone strikes in libya. warning to stay clear of forces because muammar gaddafi's men are in the cross hairs and the pentagon announcing the first drone missile strikes earlier today and the n.a.t.o. spokesmen confirming the second and hell fire missiles took out anti-air defenses in tripoli and new reports of explosions
a control room in tel aviv to destabilize the arab world. a control room in tel aviv. it is managed from the white house, all of it. let no one lie to another. every day we hear obama's statements. egypt, don't do this. tunisia, don't do that. it is not your business in egypt. it is not your business in oman. it is not your business in palestine. are you the president of the united states of america or the president of the arab world? >> those comments from yemen's president were edited out when that speech aired again later on yemen state-run television at the request of his advisers. t.j. crowley said there's no conspiracy at play. jill dougherty joins us live. i was fascinated by this, jill, because that president has actually been very closely linked with the united states, both publicly and especially in wikileaks released cables. they've allowed predator drone
because that president has actually been very closely linked with the united states, both publicly and especially in wikileaks released cables. they've allowed predator drone strikes, a lot of contact with -- the u.s. has a lot of contact with security forces there. so he's under a lot of pressure obviously from demonstrations in the streets and it would appear as if he's just sort of publicly trying to distance himself from the u.s. to give him more i guess credibility on the streets. >> this is a perfect example of the dilemma for the white house and the state department, because he plays in to exactly what can be on the minds of a lot of people. if you go back to libya, moammar gadhafi has been saying that the reason all of this is happening is because of an outside plot, an international plot. also, there is certainly the subtext in that region that the united states or the outside, let's say the west would want to invade, because of the oil that