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CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin-20150423-19:42:00

president who, you know, enormously ratcheted up the drone program, the number of strikes compared to the george w. bush administration markedly different, marked increase. you have this mistake. you certainly had the success of a risky counterterror operation in killing osama bin laden, but you've had failed rescue attempts for american hostages of isis inside syria. you had an operation in yemen attempting to rescue hostage there where the hostage was killed by his captors during the fire fight. now you have this. how does this affect the president's legacy in light of his rule growing this program? >> well barack obama will always be associated with the drone program. it really came of age as a technology during his presidency. we don't want to lose sight of the fact that the drones are really helping defeat al qaeda. we hit the right compound. it was a terrible tragedy that's occurred here. and we have to think clearly of

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