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. >> both chahazeh tell you they are not religious people yet they go to anwar al-awlaki. it seems like it's by design. al la a oo i remember many time shake mying head and saying we are getting deeper involved. >> they believe there's an unknown relationship between anwar al-awlaki, his roommate. >> the 9-11 commission report is supposed to be the road map for 9-11. if there's not one to the syrian in this book. >> chahazeh was being interviewed at the time of the 9-11 commission. they believe he was more of a leader but he was more of the one being told what to do. >> he was doing the legwork and the syrian was pulling the strings? >> it i peeappears that way. >> we tracked him down living in patterson, new jersey. >> he was not particularly religious why would you go to a box? >> e(inaudible). >> they are haunted by this piece of evidence. >> when he was arrested his car we found booklets, flight information at the airport where we know the pilot practiced out of. >> could he explain why he had the flight pamphlets? >> he didn't know how they got there. >> how did chaha

in these cases i don't know why anybody would be interested in what just trevino had to say about anwar ibrahim or malaysia i mean frankly the only other sort of public distinction that this guy has is calling for foreign governments to kill u.s. citizens when he recommended that you know the israeli government kill american citizens on a gaza flotilla a couple years ago i mean he's kind of a low balls propagandist not particularly interesting writer with not much to say so i think it's a tip off as to you know why is this guy writing about malaysia what's his interest here and what's the relevance of what he might have to say but obviously the process in general should be tight because there are a lot of interested parties out there and a lot of different loosely getting information and if nothing else it should remind viewers too and readers to always check what they're being told before they just believe that michael brooks producer of the majority or part. you for joining us thank you so much it's that time of the year again time for hundreds of america's conservative elite to file

citizen anwar al-awlaki had he continued to love -- to live in virginia. the u.s.lled him in yemen before he could kill more americans. but under the law al-awlaki was no different than the nazis who came ashore on long island in world war ii and were captured and executed. the country needs more senators who care about liberty. but if mr. paul wants to be taken seriously, he needs to do more than pull political stunts that fire up impressionable libertarian kids in their college dorms. he needs to know what he's talking about. well, mr. president, i watched some of that, quote, debate, unquote yesterday. i saw colleagues of mine who know better come to the floor and voice this same concern which is totally unfounded. i must say that the use of jane fonda's name does evoke certain memories with me, and i must say that she is not my favorite american. but i also believe that as odious as it was, ms. fonda acted within her constitutional rights. and to somehow say that someone who disagrees with american policy and even may demonstrate against it is somehow a member

. >> narrator: this was the home of anwar al awlaki, an american- born preacher killed last year in a us drone attack. >> narrator: the approach to the town of azzan was heavily guarded by al qaeda fighters. >> azzan is their fortress. when you reach azzan, you feel it's more sinister than jaar. the town is more desolate, more empty, heavily guarded. they very, very paranoid, far more than in jaar. i had many conversations with judges, clerics in azzan and they wouldn't let us film because no one was allowed to be filmed, to even have his voice recorded by the camera. no one was allowed to carry a cell phone. >> narrator: ghaith was shown the site of a us drone strike. >> these are the spots where the son of the american preacher anwar al awlaki was killed. >> narrator: the 16-year-old son of the al qaeda leader was a us citizen. >> his son and eight of his friends were sitting in this place and having dinner and were targeted by one rocket here, and another one there-- if you see, this big circle targeted them-- and then another rocket beyond this area. they say it's an american targ

president obama ordered the killing of anwar al-awlaki, the american-born al-qaeda cleric.september of last year forces killed al-awlaki and his 16-year-old son in a drone strike in yemen. america now knows the criteria used to nominate an american for targeted killing. the white paper sets forth a legal framework for when the u.s. government can use lethal force against a u.s. citizen who is a senior operation alleyeder of al-qaeda or an associated force, and is located in a foreign country outside the area of active hostilities. the justice department claims that in such a case lethal force would be lawful where three conditions are met. an informed high-level official of the u.s. government has determined that the targeted individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the united states. two, capture is infeasible, and the united states continues to monitor whether capture becomes feasible. three, the operation would be conduct inside a manner consistent with principles of the laws of war. today's hearing will examine the justice department's white paper a

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>> first of all there hasn't been any concrete evidence presented against anwar al awlaki other than he said things that are deeply offensive probably to most americans. i think the united states made a big mistake in doing away with due process particularly for american citizens and also noncitizens and if you have a man like this that you believe represents a concrete threat to the united states why not charge him with a crime, demand his extradition, go ahaemt to arrest him. the united states did that recently with one of bin laden's relatives. we've seen that in the case of somalis accused of being members of al shabab in east africa. the idea that the president would authorize what i think is the assassination of a u.s. citizen not charged with a crime is a disturbing trend and to kill his 16-year-old son two weeks later and provide no explanation why they killed the 16-year-old son, to me would have been a moment to say we're going to put a moratorium on drone strikes, step back, and look at how we killed three u.s. citizens in three weeks two of whom were not even supposedly o

if the administration really is pro energy, then they're going to do stuff like open up anwar and allow more off shore drilling and give back some of the permits they took away. that'what i'm looking for. there's estimates all over the place, how many jobs this is going to create. julian's probably right. oil prices probably uneffected for the short-term. long-term all positive. >> brenda: jonas, is it all positive? >> look, this is dirty fuel, tar sands, no question about t the only part we can control are the pipeline in america, and some ways it's an improvement over the alternative which is shipping it to china. it's not great, but better than anything else and we probably should go for it. >>renda: scott, what do you think this is going to do for gas prices. >> brenda, i want our hands on that oil. for every sent of increase at the pump. 500 or so billion out of the market and economies, i like this here and a reason we can actually try to start getting some of the oil and it's going to create jobs, guys, jobs and tax revenue. i think that's a good thing. >> brenda: thanks everybod

citizen anwar awlaki had he continued to live in virginia. the u.s. killed him in yemen before he could kill more americans. but under the law, awlaki was no different than the nazis who came ashore in long island in world war ii and were captured and executed. the country needs more senators who care about liberty but if mr. pal wants to be taken seriously the needs to do more than pulling stunts that fire up kids in their college dorms. he needs to know what he is talking about. well, mr. president, i've watched some of that, quote, debate, unquote, yesterday. i saw colleagues of mine who know better, come to the floor and voice this same concern, which is totally unfounded. i must say that the use of jane fonda's name does evoke certain memories with me, and i must say that she is not my favorite american. but i also believe that as odious was it was, ms. fonda acted within her constitutional rights, and to somehow say that someone who disagrees with american policy, and even may demonstrate against it, is somehow a member of an organization which

citizen anwar awlaki, had he continue ted live in virginia. the u.s. killed him in yemen before he could kill more americans. but under the law, awlaki was no different than the nazis who came ashore on long island in world war ii and were captured and executed. the country needs more senators who care about liberty. but if mr. paul wants to be taken seriously, he needs to do more than, quote, pull political stunts that fire up impressional libertarian kids in their college dorms. he needs to know what he is talking about. >>> well, mr. president, i've watched some of that, quote, debate, unquote, yesterday. i saw colleagues of mine who know better, come to the floor and voice this same concern, which is totally unfounded. i must say that the use of jane fonda's name does evoke certain memories with me, and i must say that she is not my favorite american. but i also believe that as odious also it was, ms. fonda had constitutional rights, and to somehow say that someone who disagrees with american policy and even may demonstrate against it, is somehow a

and i don't believe that anwar al-awlaki should have been protected anywhere in the world.that doesn't mean that they're is going to take him out with a hellfire missile. it means that we're going to use our best intelligence to apprehend and to debrief these people so that we can gain the necessary intelligence to bring them all to justice. so, mr. president, all i can say is that i don't think that what happened yesterday was helpful to the american people. we need a discussion, as i said, about exactly how we are going to address this new form of almost terminable warfare, which is very different from anything that we ever faced in the past. but somehow to allege that the united states of america, our government, would drop a drone hellfire missile on jane fonda, that -- that -- that is -- that brings the conversation from a serious discussion about u.s. policy to the realm of the ridiculous. i'd also like to add an additional note, mr. president. about 42%, as i'm told, of the members of this senate are here for six years or less. every time a majority party is in power

american citizen and senior al qaeda operative anwar al-aulaqi was killed by a drone in yemen. general khan says the under cutting of the judicial process is one aspect of the debate. general feroz khan (retired)/ naval postgraduate school." " a us citizen has constitutional rights to be given a fair trial even if he does worse of bad things so if this becomes a precendent for someone being targeted for bad views what happen to the first amendment." sjsu political law expert kenneth nuger says it is possible for the commander in chief to make an argument for using drones on u-s soil but it is the police who would more likely use drones on american soil. kenneth nuger/ assoc professor political science" " i'm more concerned about drones being used for surveillance than drones being used to kill people because the drones being used to kill people would be such a extraordinary rare circumstances and probably based on some really good evidence and probably reasonably justifiable."" professor nuger says the publics concern over drones are valid and no matter how drones end up being

were actually being paid by the malaysian government to write critical pieces of opposition leader anwar ibrahim buzz feed discovered that from may two thousand and eight until april two thousand and eleven conservative writer joshua trevino was paid nearly three hundred ninety thousand dollars to focus on the politics of malaysia a sum that he actually used to subcontract ten other writers to write columns in publications from the guardian to the washington examiner and beyond well michael brooks is the producer of the majority report and he joined us earlier to break down this confusing case it turns out that trevino defends himself by saying that he's not a journalist so i asked michael is this an applicable defense. that would probably come as news to many people who read his columns and his blog post. he wasn't identified explicitly as representing the malaysian government so obviously implicitly or not implicitly very directly you would think that he was offering objective analysis and it's as simple as that i don't really think there's much nuance here he was dishonest in his deal

i'm not talking about anwar al-awlaki.he evidence is pretty solid he's a bad guy and in the end -- he got the anti-we deserve. i would note from a mr. wittes analogy touch of collateral damage, you have to pay attention to there. and in this case his 16 year-old son also a united states citizen and not a senior operational leader of al qaeda was killed in the same tactics i would like you to tell how we can refine making that distinction and protect the rights of law-abiding u.s. citizens. i'm not saying his son is or is not but i think that's a legitimate question when we know that he also faced the same demise. so mr. chesney? >> mr. chairman, as mr. bellinger said, it's quite possible that in some of the documents the committee has not yet been able to see and certainly we haven't seen, that there's a much more expansive exploration as to the foundations of affirmative authority to target administration is claiming. that said, it is a fair amount of detail given in the white paper, the core claim of course is the 2001 a

. >> shepard: we like to deal with facts and we have a series of facts that on an wag al walk -- anwar awlaki, if you don't know, don't okay. they were following him for 48 hours, an american citizen following him overseas. he had done a lot of bad things, bad guy. they're following him. judge napolitano couldn't they just have arrest him? >> they had a team of american intelligence agents and yemen intelligence agents. he was in yemen. so they were following him for 48 hours in part to guide the drone so the drone would know where he was, and in part to make sure it was him. of course they could have arrested him. he is in a country that has friendly real estates with us and the country's agents were there as part of the surveillance team. if they had arrested them there it would have been illegal because he had not been charged with the crime. so the government didn't want to indict him because they thought the process of trying him might expose uncomfortable truths. >> shepard: this is the bottom line. the fact. the government had information that if they had indicted him the would

in fact, we'll only killed intentionally one american terrorist abroad, not in the united states, anwar al-awlaki although there's been collateral damage overseas in the effort to pick up al-qaeda terrorists. why the 12, you know, 13-hour filibuster on an issue that right now is hypothetical? because a lot of the papers are speculating, chris, this is about rand paul and 2016 and not necessarily president obama in 2013. >> well, look, it's not something that anybody would undertake specifically for a presidential run. that isn't to say that it's not good politics and you can certainly say that rand paul's presidential campaign for 2016 got a good start yesterday as he won admiration, bipartisan style, as he did something that you very seldom get to see in washington anymore which is somebody take a chance, take a risk on principle and do something. people admire that. people like that and it's so rare in washington to see somebody do that. now, you see today that republicans like lindsey graham and john mccain are making rand paul pay the price for what happened. >> megyn: they are not

on the other hand, senator paul also believes that we should not have struck anwar al-awlaki the u.s. born terrorist, born in new mexico, moved to yemen. was the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. a u.s. citizen who had joined the al qaeda terrorist network and taken out by a drone strike. >> bill: went in on arrest warrant or some kind of charge before al-awlaki got walked. >> he -- whacked. he said he ought to be brought back to u.s. court. >> bill: he would finesse that a little bit by saying look if you have a warrant and have some kind of lawful authority, then we will talk about it. >> we have lawful authority because this man. >> bill: i understand. i'm putting forth his point of view so everybody knows the clarity of it now, on illegal immigration, again, senator from kentucky goes against some prevailing conservative wisdom by providing the so-called pathway to citizenship for illegals who snuck in here. very emotional issue. one the republican party is fragmented about. how do you see his vision there? >> well, look, i'm in agreement with him. i think we need to fi

they have in one case in september of 2011 killed one american overseas and that was anwar al-awlaki whohand had joined the al qaeda branch in yemen and was actively plotting terrorism against the united states. >> brown: but you got the sense that they were taken by surprise that this became the -- i guess the final issue for john brennan's confirmation? >> yeah, i think it was seen as something outlandish. but it may reflect that the administration has been extremely secretive about the drone program, about the targeting killing program. and attorney general eric holder promised yesterday that as president obama has said that there will be greater transparency on this program in the future and that may dispel some of these fears that people have about how drones might be used. brown brown niels, where were the democrats because in the past it would often be liberals raising objections to drones and other policies. >> well, one democratic senator did lend his voice to some of the objections, that's oregon democrat ron widen. but he's ban voice on these issues for a fairly long time.

not only this anwar al awlaki fellow but his 16-year-old son colorado. the son's american friend.robert gives the president's family roomer press secretary was asked about it, how you can justify killing the boy? his answer was about as cold a disconnect as can you imagine. the boy should have chosen a different father. that's inconceivable. that's a defect in thinking to make a statement like that. not we're sorry the boy was killed. but the boy should have chosen -- >> neil: dick cheney said that? >> oh absolutely. the government is out of control and senator paul is leading the charge to reign it in. >> and you are clarifying it for all of america? >> i'm doing my best. >> judge, andrew napolitano. you don't want to get him when he is angry or thin. oh my gosh. i want you to look at this. a live shot at newark international airport. oddly quiet, don't you think? look at this sixth avenue new york city. oh o, sure. looks like business as usual. no massive problems. what's that about the white house and these mandatory spending cuts? we are just seconds away from armageddon. mich

new york times" had a very in-depth analysis this weekend about the legal justifications for killing anwar al alacki and there is collateral damage. people that go down in these targeted drone raids. the question is to what degree is that legal any more. to what degree is that not sort of taking an executive privilege and expanding it beyond your actual, the constitutional rights? >> right. i mean well, on the legal question, the domestic foundation for all our alm. congress passed a law that allowed us to take action. internationally the legal foundation is our inherit right of self-defense, especially in countries unwilling or unable to do it themselves. i feel like the administration's counterterrorism policies has firm legal footing. what's important for people to understand is people at the white house don't sit around in a room and say hey can we kill this guy legally, yes, all right, let's go. it's not policy. >> i don't think there's a suggestion that people are sitting around in a white house saying hey, can we kill this guy. >> rand paul suggested can we kill a mom at a cafe who

and i don't think that anwar al awlaki should have been protected, but that doesn't mean they're going with a hellfire missile. it means we'll use our best intelligence to apprehend and to debrief these people so we can gain the necessary intelligence to bring them all to justice. so, ms. president, all i can say is what happened yesterday i don't think is helpful to the american people. we need a discussion, as i said, but exactly how we are going to address this new form of almost interminable warfare, which is very different from anything we have faced in the past. but somehow to allege that the united states of america, our government, would drop a drone hellfire missile on jane fonda, that is -- that brings the conversation from a serious discussion about u.s. policy to the realm of the ridiculous. i would also like to add an additional note, about 42%, as i'm told, of the members of this senate are here for six years or less. the time the majority party is in power, they become frustrated with the exercise of the minority of their rights here in the senate, and back some years ag

this is anwar al-alwaki. anwar al-alwaki is someone who the administration, he was an american citizen. he was radicalized. he had both american and yemeni citizenship. he became an influential leader in al qaeda in the arraignan peninsula -- in the arabian peninsula. he has been linked to a dozen terrorist operations in the united states, including links to the september 11 attacks against our country, links to the november 5, 2009 fort hood shooting, and the administration made the decision in september of 2011 to take out mr. al-alwaki overseas where he was in yemen, and i certainly support their decision in that regard. i want to point out how inconsistent it is that we're willing to use the drone program to take out someone like awlaki, yet we won't use all the tools in our toolbox to make sure that osama bin laden's son-in-law is fully held at guantanamo and is fully interrogated and give us the time we need to make sure that we gather the full information that he has. it's very inconsistent, and i thin

. >> like anwar al awlaki?em with that. >> look, if you say, there's an american walking on the street, he intends to set off or she intends to set off in the next 12 minutes, you don't have to go to court. they can say kill them. that is direct act of combat. we have a guy over here that may be plotting and may sort of think about he could eventually be serious because they have stretched this a long way. and they will be able to kill people openly engaged. i am very -- i'm a real conservative in the sense that i don't want the government to have the ability to take away your life and frankly senator mccain seems to think it was outrageous to suggest this. does he know nothing of history? >> if anwar al awlaki was spotted in new mexico, i think that's where he was born, you heard he was located at a certain location and that's obviously a very hypothetical scenario -- >> right. if he was actively planning the killing of americans and you knew that. in al awlaki's case, he was saying all the time, go kill ameri

before he had some doubt in his mind as to whether or not we should have killed anwar al-alwaki in yemen, an american citizen who had collaborated with al qaeda, who radicalized major has san, involved in planning terrorist attacks against u.s. forces throughout the region. president obama was informed through the military intelligence community channels of al-alwaki's existence, all the videos he made supporting jihad and killing americans, and he, as commander in chief designated this person as enemy combatant. mr. president, you did what you had the authority to do, and i congratulate you for making that informed decision and the process to get on this target list is very rigorous. i think sometimes almost too rigorous. but now apparently senator paul says it's okay to kill him because we have a photo of him with an r.p.g. on his shoulder. he's moved the ball. he's saying now that he wants this president to tell him that he will not use a drone to kill an american citizen sitting in a cafe having a cup of coffee who is not a combatant. i find the question offensive. as much as i disag

citizens like al qaeda's youtube preacher, anwar awlaki. the obama administration has said nothing about thousand works or what law is restricted until monday. attorney general eric holder explained that the administration's reasoning for killing american citizens overseas and only overseas with drone strikes and other means during a monday speech at northwestern university. holder claimed that the government can kill a u.s. citizen who is a senior operational leader of al qaeda or associated forces provided the government unilaterally determines that the citizen poses an imminent threat of violent attack. once again, a little bit of a problem on the imminent doctrine is that imminent doesn't have to mean immediate. "he can't be captured and the law of war principles, like the use of proportional force and the minimization of collateral damage." the reason why some of this is important, even though he's talking about overseas now -- not what we're trying to talk about here -- is that since we haven't been given sort of the parameters for ho

apparently years earlier he owned a company that sold cd's of sermons recorded by anwar al-awlaki killedone strike, a leader by the united states, but known to be a terrorist. but putting that aside the danger that the law enforcement officials are in. last month a texas prosecutor was killed as he walked to a parking lot, in '08 a prosecutor was fatally shot to death in 2001. a prosecutor fatally shot in seattle, but these are not the -- listen, it doesn't happen that often thank goodness, but it happens and it seems like it's happening too often. >> right, yeah, and the unfortunate part of it, it goes a little with the territory. nobody takes these jobs in order to intentionally sacrifice themselves for the job. they know it goes with the territory and it's a long shot risk, but it's one that inherently that the individuals accept. their families don't. and the hardest part families left without a father, a head of a household, or a mother in some cases. it's extremely hard on the families as well. >> megyn: they put their lives on the line to try to keep the rest of us safe. christoph

noah shoctman writes in "wired," he says, "in september, american-born militant anwar al -awalaki was killed in a u.s. drone strike in yemen. in the seven months then, the al qaeda affiliate there has grown in power, influence and lethality. the american solution? authorize more drone attacks." kind of brik brings me back to t quote from the c.i.a. agent. he said drone attacks are like a lawn mower. when you quit mowing the lawn, the terrorists come back. they sometimes maybe more numerous. the question is, you have to always say, can you kill them all? you know, can you kill every terrorist in the world? or for every terrorist you kill, maybe three or four pop up, maybe ten pop up. what happens to the families of people who happen to be the ones we made mistakes on or happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? i know the president, his spokesman, found it cute to say, oh, they should have chosen better parents. they should have chosen a more responsible parents. i don't find tha that endearingr cute. i find that really reprehensible to say that's the standard. you have to ask

and talked a lot about anwar al-awlaki, the cleric taken out by a drone strike overseas and he's askingestion about due process and whether or not the united states government is willing to rule out the possibility of a drone strike here on u.s. soil to an american citizen. he got an answer from the attorney general that did not satisfy him. 's been asking john brennan similar questions so this is the power that one united states senator has to hold up the proceedings as the senate appeared to be heading toward voting on john brennan's confirmation to be the next cia director. he slammed on the brakes by saying, he was rising to filibuster the nomination, he says it's the not personal toward john brennan, it's not personal towards the president. >> megyn: and he we talked about some of the stuff and reasons earlier, but i want to ask you, we heard-- what's he doing? every time we dip in he's on something, and he's reading from alice in wonderland and how long is it likely to go on for, overnight all day. >> megyn, you know as somebody who talks for a living, it takes a lot of words to f

anwar al-awlaki, the first american citizen to be targeted and killed in a u.s. drone strike.me involved with al qaeda in yemen advocating for holy war against the united states. and ahmed bim first known american suicide bomber after he blew himself up in somalia. that killed 20 people there. alisyn: let's look at bigger picture of al qaeda and extensive reach worldwide. al qaeda cells and associates have been located in more than 70 countries in the past several years the terror group has expanded its presence in at least 12 countries. at least since 2000 al qaeda and its affiliates carried out more than 600 attacks, killing more than 7250 people. bill: in the meantime there are more headlines this morning because there are fresh threats again from north korea. kim jong-un, the new leader there, saying his missiles are on standby ready to strike targets for the united states. this latest warning now coming a day after our nation flew two stealth fighters over that region in a previously-planned military exercise. so how is a revamped obama administration including new secret

authorizations to use drones overseas, even legally justifying the killing of the american-born cleric, anward but he was in yemen. there was a lot of people who believe there couldn't be this sort of targeting here in the united states. and to be fair, the obama administration and eric holder are saying there are no plans to do so. they were only responding to a hypothetical question that rand paul asked. but what is hypothetical today may not be hypothetical for presidents in the future, john. >> that's absolutely correct. i suspect we have not heard the last of this. chris lawrence, our thanks to you. >>> 45 minutes past the hour. new developments in syria's bloody civil war. a new milestone. the u.n. reports that one million citizens have now fled the country, becoming refugees in nations like lebanon, jordan, turkey, iraq and egypt. and the u.n. says millions of other syrians are living like refugees right inside their own borders. >>> police in west nashville, tennessee, want to know who stole some silverware and jewelry from senator lamar alexander's house. the republican senior senato

the underwear bombing plot came from yemen, anwar al-awlaki was there, we can't forget that kind of threatecurity. it's great to have your per speufbgt, and very interesting conversation, thank you. >> thank you, thank you. jon: the winter storm that is on the move now will affect millions of americans along with those already hit. meteorologist janice dean on who is next in its path. plus imagining this happening to someone you love, a nursery fuses to perform cpr on an elderly woman who stops breathing, because it's against the policies of the retirement home where she works. that victim later died. the possible legal fallout and more on the 911 operator's desperate plea to get someone to try to save this woman's life. >> we can't wait. i keep telling people this. i don't know who is passed the phone again. i need the phone next to the patient immediately, she is possibly not breathing. m a cons. but that doesn't mean i don't want to make money. i love making money. i try to be smart with my investments. i also try to keep my costs down. what's your plan? ishares. low cost and tax effici

citizens abroad in yemen, the killing of anwar al awlaki, some of those families of u.s.zens filed a lawsuit against the federal government. having that happen on u.s. soil would open up all kinds of possibilities, because while the obama administration rightfully is saying they were asked this hypothetical question, it is hypothetical, what is hypothetical today may not be so in five, ten, 15, 20 years. >> very good point, chris. a hypothetical discussion that i think will be the source of great debate in washington very, very soon. chris lawrence at the pentagon, our thanks to you. >>> meanwhile, a stunning confession in an attack that nearly blinded the director of russia's famous bolshoi ballet. police say the company's lead dancer has admitted to planning an acid attack on the ballet company's artistic director. cnn's phil black is following developments for us live from moscow this morning. phil, this is just a bizarre story. >> reporter: it is indeed, john. police here have released this video of the man, the leading dancer with the bolshoi ballet. he is heard spea

what it has said his it has addressed a specific case, which is the case of anwar al- awlaki who is found to be a senior al qaeda operational leader whose capture was not plausible who posed an imminent threat and whose targeting would be lawful under the laws of war. it asked a question which is, is it lawful to target this guy? they limited their answer to that question so as not to take on bigger questions and more difficult questions and they needed to and that moment. a limited that answer to that question to those three circumstances. that leaves a lack of ancillary questions like, what about the non-operational senior leader who poses imminent threat? what about the operational senior leader who does not pose an imminent threat? what about the u.s. citizen foot soldier? those questions are left open. there is no claim of authority to target such people. >> the gentleman is recognized for an additional minute. >> i went to clarify since my comments have been quoted a number of times that i was not suggesting that we should broaden its targeting criteria. i was suggesting that none o

had an attack on anwar al awlaki. >> i can think of many instances, wolf, if you're talking about anrican that is taking up arms against the united states, i can think of plenty of instances where our country needs to use lethal force to deal with that kind of particular situation. what we're going to have to flesh out is, for example, what happens if our country has the wrong person or somebody thinks that they don't belong to one of these groups and the government does? those are some of the issues that we need to address. i've continued to say my bottom line is that every american wants to know why their government has the right to kill them. and until we make that very clewe have more work to do. >> not necessarily john mccain out on the senate floor really going after senator rand paul, some of the remarks he made during his filibuster yesterday. >> i don't think what happened yesterday is helpful to the american people. but somehow to allege that the united states of america, our government would drop a drone he will. l-fire missile on jane fonda, that is -- that brings the con

that it prejudices the jury and that they can't do it to your point, a motive that was praised by anwars no longer with us thanks to a drone attack. he was one of the chief persons who helped influence nidal hasan to carry out this attack praised by al qaeda. >> clayton: speaking of the victims. one of the individuals who was actually a vism the fort hood shooting spoke to us a short time ago. alonzo lunsford. he says this is just appalling. listen. as if what happened to us doesn't matter, not showing a high level of importance. and those of us that are in the military, we are kind of being rushed out the benefits we typically would receive if this was a combat event opposed to being called work place violence is is a huge difference. and is more or less like a smack in the face of how we have been treated considering service that we have been giving to our nation. >> alisyn: we would love to know what you think about this. you can find us all on twitter. we will read some of your comments. meantime get to your headlines right now and tell you what else is happening at this hour. a ter

it looks as if anwar sadat's party, the reform and development party is going to participate in the elections and so on. so it's, it's unlikely that an election boycott will be successful. of course, the logic, one of the logics of the electoral boycott would be not only to deprive legitimacy to morsi and the government, but, you know, many of the people in the national salvation front and liberal and secular voices want morsi to fail miserably, and they want things to deteriorate so much in egypt that morsi cannot continue as president. and many people are calling for that. many people are calling for, um, many liberal and secular voices -- and i think this is absurd -- are calling for morsi to be removed, they're calling for the military to intervene. there are petitions signed by egyptians asking the minister of defense to intervene and to remove morsi. others are calling for early presidential elections so morsi doesn't continue with this four years. and even though i think mr. morsi's reign has been disastrous in many ways, i think it would be a terribly pad precedent for him -- bad prec