there were lots of drone strikes, each of which at least we were told through the cia program were signed off by the president. now they seem to be fewer but they do not rise to the level of actually getting a presidential signature in the oval office. >> well, that's because in the early part of this program they went after very specific individuals who would have -- once you use a drone weapon system on them, would give you a very specific chain of events downstream from the death of that particular senior commander. now, as we degrade the organization, you still get very large numbers of people who would be coming together, training camps. we have a lot of criticism over the last few years that we weren't striking very large gatherings of al qaeda members in yemen and afghanistan. and so that seems to have usurped the going after very