in the case of john brennan he has said in 2011 we have not killed one civilian with our drones.e also called the drones ethical, just, surgically precise and why is. it is sad this is coming from somebody so high at in the administration so i want to end on a nose of how proud i am to be with people here who have put their lives on the line and crossed over the base and been willing to go to jail and taken the road of martin luther king and stand up for all human life and also want to recognize the work that we have ahead of us not just in convincing our government what to do but convincing other americans because other americans might be quicker to agree with us that they don't want their privacy and safety violated at home they are still living under this cloak of fear that allows them to think it is okay to be killing people overseas that are named militant by our government and what a militant could be somebody who wants the occupiers to leave their country and who allows the american people allowing us to kill a lot of innocent people including american teenage boy without

they have been laid out at length by john brennan in a number of speeches. the fact that the office of existent is developing some tools that could be put to more useful purposes is a good thing. >> thank her for this discussion. -- thank you for this discussion. what are the reasons behind the attempt to downplay the role of the ideology? is it lack of knowledge or is it because some people feel they don't know how to deal with the ideology in this field or is it political correctness or something else? >> i think this report does an excellent job in describing what that is about in one section. the gentleman who wrote it can exploit a better than i can. the issue of dealing with an ideology that is based on the distorted view of a religion is one issue. there is a real allergy to that in the u.s. government. people take the first amendment, prohibition of established religion in the united states and some sort of prohibition on the u.s. participating in matters involving religion abroad. the second point is this issue of squeamishness about u.s. government

john brennan: >> in other words oh, civilian, almost never. really? n.y.u.d did a study and found that in fact 884 civilians have been killed, just in northwest pakistan alone, including 176 children. this doesn't help the united states of america. it hurts our cause. now, the researchers went on the record and talked about what they found out, some amazing things. let's go to the first clip. >> one of the things we found is there are entire communities who live in areas where drones are flying overhead 24 hours a day seven days a week at times. and these people don't know when those drones will strike. they don't know who they will strike. the result is symptoms of psychological disorder, of trauma of severe anxiety and of dysfunction at. we heard stories of people who won't leave their houses. >> how would you feel if there was a drone over your head at all times and you never knew when they were going to strike whether you were in september or guilty? that wouldn't feel very good, let alone the double taps. >> the people with whom we spoke in the communit

quick word with the president of yemen, who was meeting with deputy national security advisor john brennan. he skipped the traditional luncheon, leaving the u.n. secretary general sounding sort of like a jilted prom date. >> i think he must be busy with something at this moment. or perhaps he must be stuck somewhere in traffic. >> the secretary general may be having a hard time explaining it because the notion of a president doing this kind of a speak and run is pretty unprecedented. here's what president obama's new york scrapbook looked like last year. he met with britain's prime minister, david cameron, had a sit-down with french president nicolas sarkozy, mr. obama also spoke one-on-one with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he met with all those world leaders, all these world leaders as well. 13 in all. similarly, there was plenty of meetings the year before and the year before that. in fact, keeping them honest, we checked and discovered that no president in recent memory has ever come up for the general assembly and not met with anyone. yesterday, white house spokesman jay

we've seen john brennan come out after the bin laden raid. to the underwear bomber and all these other terrorist attacks, it's really odd. we've seen no -- we have not seen him present publicly at all or speak publicly at all. and he's really the president's most senior substantive advisor on these sorts of issues. frankly, i don't know what role he has played. but it's a fair question, why isn't he talking publicly about it? and what is the role he's tried to play to try to resolve some of these disputes that have clearly hampered the intelligence community and law enforcement. >> lots of explaining is needed. guys, thanks very much for that new information. >>> meanwhile, another disturbing development unfolding right now this involving the worsening crisis in syria. leon panetta revealing that u.s. intelligence shows syria has moved some of its chemical weapons for security purposes. it's a red line that the president has warned the country against crossing. let's get straight to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. she's got the late

. >> or john brennan. who is an expert on terrorism. we are at war with the terrorists.claring war on us. i think we need to be at war with them. and i wish the administration would recognize that. the terrorists want to atalks. they are planning wars against us all the time and we have to fight them. i'm troubled the level attention give to the nature of what the terrorists want to do to us around the world is not what it should be. megyn: you heard charles' theory that this may have to do with the receipt sense if any to reveal what they knew about this being a terrorist attack. may be attributable to an argument the president has been making about how al qaeda has been tripled. yesterday in virginia beach he said al qaeda is on the path to defeat and bin laden is dead. that has been a pill after his foreign policy accomplishment list. this raises questions about just how crippled al qaeda is. >> i don't want our president to be mcvailan with us or misinform us. and i think there was some misinformation from the white house and the u.n. am passer and i don't think it w

they have been laid out at length by john brennan in a number of speeches. the fact that the office of existent is developing some tools that could be put to more useful purposes is a good thing. >> thank you for this discussion. what are the reasons behind the attempt to downplay the role of the ideology? is it lack of knowledge or is it because some people feel they don't know how to deal with the ideology in this field or is it political correctness or something else? >> i think this report does an excellent job in describing what that is about in one section. the gentleman who wrote it can exploit a better than i can. the issue of dealing with an ideology that is based on the distorted view of a religion is one issue. there is a real allergy to that in the u.s. government. people take the first amendment, prohibition of established religion in the united states and some sort of prohibition on the u.s. participating in matters involving religion abroad. the second point is this issue of squeamishness about u.s. government participation in the marketplace

you really wonder why you didn't hear from clapper, from head of the dni, from john brennan, why werese not the people put forth to talk about this. one other issue i want to bring up in all of this is the question of our c.i.a. operation that was gathering intelligence on the ground there and how compromised according to reports all of that has become our ambassador in this location was not secure, and so much has now unraveled apparently because of that oversight. >> yeah, i mean we've reported extensively about al-qaida and how much they were expanding in libya. and how concerned the u.s. government and the intelligence community was about that before this attack. and to that end the c.i.a. had many assets on the ground trying to get a grip of what was happening. well after this attack and because of this attack and all the fallout from it, all of that reportedly has been removed, and so according to one official the eyes have been poked out. so our ability to know and see what is going on about the extension of al-qaida in one of the most crucial places in the world in the war on

the executive order which john brennan said was being considered would presumably address some of thosetween government and the private sector. particularly important the government wants to make sure the companies that own and operate critical infrastructure are taking appropriate measures to keep things like the water supply, the electric grid, the air traffic control system safe from a cyber attack. >> well, do we know what the hangup is? this certainly does seem like the kind of thing congress would know they have to do pretty quickly. >> it seems pretty obvious, doesn't it? yeah. there is a bill that was passed by the house but it did hit snags in the senate. the sticking point really now is over the burden on business. should they be required to share information with the government if the government is helping identify and ward off these attacks? and if they share that information and the government sees something else that doesn't look right, would they have any reliability protection from that being used against them? that's the big rub really. but according to to mike rogers w

the statement pointed out that john brennan, the president's homeland security advisor, had for the pasto talk about security measures. and then the statement pointed out that during the briefing "the president and the principals discussed specific measures we are taking in the homeland to prevent 9/11 related attacks as well as the steps taken to protect u.s. persons in facilities abroad as well as force protection." according to the statement the president wanted to make sure that all steps were being taken to protect americans not only here in the homeland but also abroad. which brings us back to that question whether or not someone dropped the ball. here's how white house spokesman jay carney dealt with tt question today. >> there were numerous steps taken as there have been every year on the anniversary of 9/11 and as there have been at different times on the calendar when it is judged by the experts that taking additional security steps is the right thing to do. as for specific measures taken at specific facilities, diplomatic facilities, i would refer you to the state department.

brennan, thank you. senior correspondent john miller, former assistant director of the fbi is with us. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> who is this young man? >> he is a former al qaeda member was in guantanamo bay, released to libya. during the revolution when they let everybody out of the prisons, he was released there in march 2010 and became part of the revolution against gaud autograph gad autograph -- gaud agadhafi. he is a suspect on paper. there is intell about him. it's way too early to verify these reports. we've seen he is the prime suspect way too early. >> former guantanamo bay detainee ended up in this attack, killing one of our ambassadors, that would raise real questions. i know we don't have an answer yet about that. we did hear on capitol hill yesterday matthews olson, director of the national counterterrorism center tell lawmakers that they believe that this was a terrorist attack, but it wasn't preplanned. how does that make sense? >> i think it doesn't make sense. whenever you torture the language, what's a terrorist attack versus a planned terrorist atta

. >> reporter: stacey brennan and her husband were among the many residents of st. john par whoirb waited in gas lines for hours to fill up their vehicles and gas cans. while the area has never taken on this much water, stacey says they have seen and weathered plenty of storms. >> we were in andrew in 1992. my mom's house got totalled. for katrina, so we just try to bunker down and help everybody who we can help. and help ourselves. >> reporter: and in some areas on thursday the water was still very deep sending search crews from the military, sheriff's office, national guard and the department of wildlife and fisheries into neighborhoods to rescue those trapped inside their homes. despite the threat of isaac tracy never considered leaving her home. >> i've been here about six years and i've got other people been here 10, 20, 30 years and says this has never happened in laplace. that is what we all say. >> residents have been forced to evacuate, boarding buses headed to shelters in alexandria, shreveport and monroe. rpt returning from out of town eric found his home unde

. >> margaret, brennan thank you. john miller is with us. good morning. who is this man? >> he's a former al qaeda member who was in guantanamo bay. he was released to libya in 2007. and then during the revolution when they let everybody out of the prisons he was released there in march of 2010 and became part of the revolution against gadhafi. and he is somebody that they are looking at as a possible prime suspect in either organizing or leading the assault on that diplomatic compound. >> the fbi? >> the fbi, intelligence agencies. but i want to underline, he's a great suspect on paper. there's intel on him. it's way too early to verify these reports we've seen that he's the prime suspect or prime mover. way too early. >> it would be remarkable that a former guantanamo bay detainee ended up involved in this attack killing one of our ambassadors. that would raise some real questions. i know we don't have an answer yet about that. we did hear on capitol hill yesterday, matthew olson director of the national counterterrorism center told lawmakers they believe this was a ter

brennan to supreme court. it was a host of liberal republicans that roosevelt appointed himself. men like elbert tuttle of georgia and johnana. these were the judges that were in the vanguard of the civil rights struggle. but the most significant judicial appointment, i think, that eisenhower made at the time, was that of john marshall harlan, great conservative justice, just after the court's landmark decision in brown versus board of education. certainly after that decision came down, justice robert jackson died, leaving a vacancy on the court. at that point, roosevelt turned to harlem, who is the grandson of the great john marshall harlan, who had been the only dissenter in 1896, a place that utilized segregation, by pointing harlem, the main gate of the great dissenter, eisenhower was making a statement of the south could not ignore. desegregation was the law of the land and eisenhower was going to enforce it. when a mob attempted to block it, eisenhower sent a regular army, not just a regular army, but 101st airborne to little rock to enforce liberty. eisenhower's view on desegregation was clear. he recognized that t

brennan institute, it will cost potentially biden and boats. -- 5 million votes. 14,000 in virginia. shaving off 100,000 votes could turn this election when you look at congressman john lewis and others that pay the price for us to vote, donna is right. e need to have a two prong strategy. we need to do everything we need to vote this year so where we cannot turn around like ohio and pennsylvania and michigan, we can still vote because it they could take no right to vote and stand up against jim clark and , them what excuse do we have that we cannot couple of ids and go to the poll? we cannot be that lazy that we cannot do what we have to do. as much as we are outraged, we need of a strategy that we are therefore going to be proactive and deal with it. i'm with the conservatives. i am a conservative. i am try to conserve the voting rights act. serve theng rtto con civil-rights act. the radicals that have -- that are trying to have a radical departure from what made this country great. we are trying to conserve the country. others are trying to turn the country back and we are not going back. [applause] >> will let our conservative members of the panel, but in theory

appointments of earl warren and oral brennan to the supreme court, but the host of liberal republicans such as the president appointed himself like albert title of georgia and johnsiana. these were the judges that were in the vanguard of the civil rights struggle. but the most significant judicial appointment i think that eisenhower made at that time is that of john marshall hall of the great conservative justice and just after the landmark decision in brown v board of education. shortly after that decision came down, justice robert jackson died leaving the vacancy on the court, and at that point roosevelt turned to the grandson of the great marshall harlem who would be the only dissenter in percy versus ferguson and 1896, the case legalized segregation by appointing the great dissenter eisenhower was making a statement he could not have adored. he said eisenhower was going to enforce it. when the segregation attempted to swap the integration in little rock eisenhower sent a regular army, not just a regular army but the 101st airborne to enforce the court's order. eisenhower's view on the segregation laws but he recognized this was a bitter pill for the self to