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i'm not saying you're wrong, but i'm saying when it comes to cheap ideology, chucking out statements that $50 million is cheap. >> i didn't throw it out, you pried it out of me, you begged me for an answer. >> we loved that so much, we decided to have number two. take a look another this latest rant of president obama which i call the abcs of "snl." >> this whole thing with obama saying the rich don't pay their taxes [ bleep ] and i voted for the guy and i'm a democrat. what else? >> no holds barred interview, hopefully in will be something in between the beeps tonight. a fat epide...

Question when we've been listening to the top administration people from the president on down recently we've been hearing that yemen is the belly of the beast, if you will, in terms of what we're facing as a threat. what do you -- what comes to you when you hear this report in terms of the politics, the ambitions of al qaeda as it still survives in these splinter groups? >> well, unfortunately, i think it's one of the great untold foreign policy issues going on at the moment. it's not an issue in the presidential election, but maybe it should be, because if you look at what's going on in yeme...

Attack the american homeland. since osama bin laden was pretty much removed from any kind of operational leadership. and we know from his final letters and his communications that he was aspirational. he did want to attack president obama. he did want to attack the then-leader of u.s. forces in afghanistan, general david petraeus, then following that, of course, the head of the cia. but at the time, he no longer had the operation ability with al qaeda. main al qaeda. the central organization. >> right. >> but these splinter groups, mainly located in yemen now, as well as in somalia and a coupl...

president obama on the number one issue facing the country today? that and much more ahead. first our top of the hour look at what you need to know right now. first that breaking news i just mentioned. cnn confirms that jonathan silver, the head of the energy department's controversial loan guarantee program is resigning tonight. dan, what do we know about the particular official and why is he leaving? >> reporter: well, that official who headed up that controversial program which committed some $38 billion to 40 clean energy projects across the country, he is leaving, cnn has lear...

Following up on the excellent work done by leon panetta. >> it is the cia, but you've also got to have leadership there. and what the president's got, especially in john brennan, is someone who has the authority and the focus to follow through. there has been a concerted effort under john brennan in the white house to demolish these leaders as they emerge, to use unprecedented numbers of drone attacks. and it's been successful. you can see that in the intelligence they picked up around bin laden. these people were trying to keep low cover, not being -- not coming out into the open. it hampered...