we have former pentagon general counsel jeh johnson joining us for the interview. please, stay with us. >>> the attorney general of the united states broke some major news today in an unexpected way, took a lot of people by surprise. part of the reason we know that is because this wanted poster was still posted at fbi.gov this afternoon for several hours after the attorney general admitted in print this afternoon that actually this guy is no longer wanted, he's dead. so, he's not wanted anymore. shortly after the national security reporter, spencer ackerman, and a number of other folks started tweeting links to the poster, the fbi took it down. did the fbi really not know that that guy had been killed until the attorney general told congress and the general public about it this afternoon? i mean, they had a wanted poster out for him, so presumably, they were expending some fbi resources wanting the guy, right, looking for him. if they were looking for him but another agency of the u.s. government, presumably the cia or maybe the military, some other part of the u.s

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we're facing an with a congress that is largely fallin to ask questions. >> we want to go back to jeh johnsonbeing questioned by rachel maddow on her show on msnbc. he said eric holder's letter set for this do standard on the counter-terrorism activities. >> the individual must be a continuing and imminent threat to americans and that capture should not be feasible. those standards previously were only in place when it comes to u.s. citizens. what the letter discloses is that from this point on, and this has probably been in place for a while, that standard will be in place for any targeted lethal force of the so-called hot battlefield. that is a pretty rigorous standard. i think it is acknowledgment we're moving to a different phase in our counter-terrorism efforts. we have been in a so-called armed conflict for almost last 12 years that has involved a u.s. military and other aspects of the u.s. government. we are in a different phase. i will call it an inflection point where core al qaeda has been effectively disseminated, captured or killed, and we see splinter groups, affiliate's in north

november 2012, the top lawyer at the pentagon, jeh johnson goes to england to give a speech in which he makes the case everything the administration has been doing is legal under the laws of war, but he says this war cannot last forever. it has to end. now today, last in a long series, we get the culmination. we get the president, himself, stating that, yeah, the war's got to end. war cannot be forever or it's not war anymore. it's something else. >> our commitment to constitutional principles has weathered every war. and every war has come to an end. we must define the nature and scope of this struggle or else it will define us. we have to be mindful of madison's warning that no nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. we must define our effort not as a boundless global war on terror, but rather as a series of persistent targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten america. a perpetual war through drones or special forces or troop deployments will prove self-defeating. and all to our country in troubling ways. our sy

the former general council for the pentagon, jeh johnson, is here to talk about that and more, as welllot going on.