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Well, if he was so bad, why was he at a public event, and why didn't they send somebody to pick him up, put him in jail, and try him? >> this sounds so unlike the moral high ground that president obama talked about. and he, of course, in that interview that we just played a moment ago, brought up the legal aspects of this. what we're doing, in your opinion, is it legal? >> no, it is not. and there is a series of questions about the legality. for the film we're interviewing many legal scholars, and there is a variety of opinions about, you know, the specific ways that we're breaking humanitaria...

Moral high ground that president obama talked about. and he, of course, in that interview that we just played a moment ago, brought up the legal aspects of this. what we're doing, in your opinion, is it legal? >> no, it is not. and there is a series of questions about the legality. for the film we're interviewing many legal scholars, and there is a variety of opinions about, you know, the specific ways that we're breaking humanitarian law and international law. and even the basic assumption was, as i said, high value targets who represent an imminent threat to the united states. i defy you to ...

Aspects of this. what we're doing, in your opinion, is it legal? >> no, it is not. and there is a series of questions about the legality. for the film we're interviewing many legal scholars, and there is a variety of opinions about, you know, the specific ways that we're breaking humanitarian law and international law. and even the basic assumption was, as i said, high value targets who represent an imminent threat to the united states. i defy you to look at the people we're assassinating and say they are providing an imminent threat. >> there is no question in my opinion that the drone progra...

You mentioned the drone campaign. that's been a very up critical part of this global war on terror. going into somalia, dealing with high value targets in yemen, again, kinds of goes back to that point we were talking about in terms of how al qaeda has dissipated moved off to different areas. so you have to where possible, you have to chase them down and deal with it, but it does take an administration willing to say yes, this is what we're going to do. >> i want to unpack that piece of it, what the administration is willing to do. david corn, you have a book that details a lot of the decision...

Will not also be able to immediately interrogate these people, the high value targets, the key militants killed or captured that have led to finding out things. it prevented like plots like future 9/11's happening as well. one big concern is now that the afghans are in control how much can the afghans be relied onto go after the same targets that the u.s. have here. a u.s. spokesman told me earlier today that the targets of the after gone and the u.s. will continue to be the same. take a listen. >> we don't have two target lists, that is the whole point. the operational group. which is the afg...