djibouti could do it. they did not been six countries have the potential to tap into this power. kenya is leading the pack with regard to wind energy. it is going to be the largest wind energy farm on the continent, which is going to be in kenya. >> with these huge projects and huge amounts of money are we going to see economies change? >> we talk power and education at if you don't have power at home you cannot study. you don't have access to the internet. it does drive certain industries and drives them seriously. generating employment, giving people spending capacity, and then that cycle bolsters the entire economy. >> it is all about making it sustainable. let's return to our loyal study -- our oil story. lots of ways out with big losses. what is the market reaction? >> big losses for all the oil companies. the profit is down about 50%. about a sixth of what it was last year. very interesting reaction. both stocks down 5%. that is only surprising because it was not really unexpected what would happen to those companies. we know those profits are directly tied to the oil price

we had to smuggle ourselves in by boat in the neighboring country of djibouti. once we got out there, we saw country completely paralyzed lack of fuel, food, medicine, no power in most of the cities we visited. there's a constant toll of airstrikes and very heavy fighting in numerous areas of the country. so really, it is mounting humanitarian catastrophe, as you mentioned, an extremely dangerous situation that i think threatens to get worse as time goes on. nermeen: you talk about the saudi blockade. it is because of this blockade there is a humanitarian catastrophe in part because fuel and food supplies can't get in. what was the justification for the blockade and where you traveled in yemen, what did you see its effects in the refugee camps, etc., that you went to? >> the justification the saudi coalition gives is it is preventing deliveries of weapons to the houthis from iran. there really hasn't been any smoking evidence of deliveries in the past, but that is the reason they're giving. yemen was already in a human to turn catastrophe even before the war --

marine stationed in djibouti to going in to special forces and dana priest "washington post" in 2010 ran a story saying the cia knew along along -- all along the darwish was there me kill them because they primary target was a career he. i think we do need to go back and look at that but the other thing and this is utterly fascinating. there was a the seventh person in the vehicle that day who survived and he was put on trial and a yemen court. it was a military court and he was found not guilty of terrorism charges. we are actually keeping individuals on the battlefield without due process, and we are not challenging them and we are not indicting. they're not going through the criminal justice system. we always assume their guilt. i do understand the arguments that this is war and not policing but then there was a time before targeted assassination before drone strikes will be had terrorism, what did we do? again in the book i talk about the fbi was rolling up al qaeda in yemen in 2002. they were never informed that the cia was at that strike and an pakistan al qaeda have been destr

from djibouti to guam. we will go from being a country without the word bases to a country that is not about controlling territory but controlling bases. those drones, they are launched from the region in which they are being used. many are launched from pakistan. pakistan doesn't like to talk about it. the first key element of this strategy, forward bases, staging areas. the second part of this, focus on key waterways. key places that one must be able to get through. the 20th century we would call these chokepoints, areas not just in the wide ocean but are narrow through ways that are connectors, crucial if you want to get from one part of the world to the other. that will be the argument for the panama canal, for the suez canal, for the straits of gibraltar, for so many of these key areas around the world that to this day the united states put so much attention to making sure they are open. those of the areas that trade goes through. the possible bottlenecks on the highway of the world. mahan's ideas are

djibouti aspirational goal for the united states in its federal budget.growth growing faster than the size of washington and its budget. we balanced our budget every year. we increased our state's reserves by $8 billion. perhaps we will have hurricanes, to be able to reserve for a rainy day seemed to make sense and we were rewarded by being upgraded to a aaa bond rating. compare that to where the federal government had a downgrade, its first one. i vetoed more than 2500 spending items. that was not punitive. i think the speakers my degree i was an equal opportunity retailer -- vetoer. this was to create a process so we could have $9 billion in reserves, where we could have a government that did not grow faster than people's incomes in the state, a process based on conservative principles, and we the same thing in washington. we should have the idea of corleoene -- we need to bring that to d.c. i cut the state bureaucracy by more than 10%, trying to live up to the promis to make buildings in tallahassee -- i believe a self-governing society does not need t