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Obviously, after 9/11, unfortunately. after 9/11, to put together an interrogation program and surveillance program president is patriot act and all of those things that were vital to keeping us safe and the remaining 7 1/2 years of our administration, the system with respect to drones and arming the drones, that was something tapresident bush decided on, right after 9/11 and we put weapons on the platforms. that has worked very well. it's produced significant results. and the obama administration has used the dronesesquively. you have to give him credit for that. i am really worried because i...

Mccain from the great state of arizona. welcome back. >> thank you, sean. >> sean: we are not talking about a small allegation here. we are talking about releasing highly sensitive information that could put people's lives in jeopardy and you say, for the benefit of the president's re-election? tell us more? >> well, what i am saying is that these are leaks concerning two of the most highly classified, ongoing operations that are vital to our national security, the drones, which as you know are attacking targets of al qaeda over in pakistan and yemen and other parts of the middle-east. we are ...

Most wanted man. >> this is a very strange alliance between the united states and pakistan. we're both fighting al-qaida. we're both fighting taliban. had this happened, for example, with england, with france, with israel, even with yemen, if we have an enemy terrorist on those territories and have sent the drones, they wouldn't have reacted that way. >> reporter: even though a senate committee voted unanimously to withhold $33 million in aid for pakistan, a million for every year of dr. afridi's sentence until he's free, there's no indication that the pakistanis are considering letting him go...

a threat anymore. u.s. counterterrorism official says the explosive device is similar to the one that was used by the so-called underwear bomber back on christmas day of 2009. only this time, more sophisticated and harder to detect. barbara starr is live at the pentagon this morning. what do we know about the bomb itself and about how this all unfolded? >> well, very little detail being made public at this point, ashleigh because officials say operations intelligence operations are still ongoing. clearly, pointing to the fact they still feel there are elements of whatever this organi...

The drones and et cetera are costing us a lot. >> just horrific. david gregory, thank you very much. arianna huffington, thank you, as well. coming up next, the legacy of lbj. is the 2012 election about rethinking the policies of the nation's 36th president? that's next on "morning joe." i'm here at walmart with tiffany who drives around town looking for low prices.