dennis blair raising questions about the drone strikes that are the principal counter crism target weng to go after al qaeda, saying they may be counter productive in pakistan. when we do them unilaterally, we are alienating the pakistanis. he surprisingly called for pulling back. scaling back using them only when we have pakistani cooperation on the drone strikes. that's what the general was reacting to, saying, no, now is not the time to do that. we need to step up and continue the effort in northwest pakistan. >> three months since osama bin laden's death. >> there were a lot of reactions in early may that we were going to get the rest of the top al qaeda leaders. we haven't. leon panetta said we may be close to strategically defeating them. we haven't picked off those top three to five leaders. while we have heard it is great to hear these kind of comments but until we actually see, are we going to get these next top leaders might be cause for a little bit of skepticism. >> michael isikoff, thanks. >> thank you. >>> everybody is talking about the debt deal debate. topic of today's

ground but i thought it was really interesting that the former director of national intelligence dennis blair actually made a statement about this last week or we have a clip of it we can we can say or show you why he was against it we put the change things like this. the mother of this jordanian doctor who you know blew himself up and killed it of our people and coast. who says. son did good that's great that's what that's what a good believer should do but that is not we're not going to change out the jones drone strikes you're only going to change that by working with people who believe differently to what do you agree with with tennis by their i do now is by first off i question why is he saying all this now i mean you know now just a little note you have to do what he had to he had to resign to mean do you think that kind of thing is going to get out of line we had to step down so i'm going to tell you guys i'm actually retired the e-mail. my retirement orders even given to me so let's hope they are with me right now with that said i always question people i've i started talking about re

ground but i thought it was really interesting that the former director of national intelligence dennis blair actually made a statement about this last week or we have a clip of it we can we can say or show you why he was against it we had to change things like this so the mother of this jordanian doctor who you know blew himself up in there and killed four people in khost. who says you know son did good that's great that's what that's what a good police should do but it's not we're not going to change the terms drone strikes you're going to change that by working with people who believe differently to what you do you agree with within this letter i do now first off i question why i'm saying all this now i mean you know just a little note you have to appear here he had to resign to me do you think that kind of thing is going to hours i may have to step down so i'm going to you guys i'm actually retired to elevate the e-mail. my retirement orders even given so it's all there with me right now that said i always question people i've i started talking about religion before i got out i wonder abo

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it includes the former head of shell oil in the former director of national intelligence, dennis blair. this is part of the national summit on energy security and hosted by the group securing america's energy future. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. with the senate adjourned, you can watch "but tv" prime-time all month. -- "booktv." a test of the will and faith in world war i . carl peterson on her book, "black got some." -- "black gotham." "booktv" primetime all this month on c-span2. >> republican candidates are drying in iowa for grass-roots politics. starting on thursday, we will interview the candidates can take your phone calls about politics. saturday, we will go to the iowa straw poll where three of the past five winners have gone on to win the iowa caucus. "road to the white house" in iowa this week on c-span. next, the man who trained the navy seals who stormed osama bin laden's qaeda in pakistan. but this is from a recent aspen institute security forum. >> great to be here in aspen. it is great to be here instead of afghanistan. that reminds me that it is better to be in afghan