diplomacy is back. right now we re witnessing an international engagement with 190 countries, and the president will be speaking to them. he ll also be speaking to the american people about what his vision is for the next several years. and then interestingly, he ll be speaking to the iranians and the syrians and the russians, america s adversaries, about what he expects and hopefully this will open up the door on diplomacy towards iran and their nuclear program. and people are saying will there be a meeting between the president and the new iranian president. look, there s no doubt they have changed their style. he s tweeting. did you see the picture of him coming over to the u.n.? i don t know if we have a picture of him in a car for his arrival, but, you know, just like any other day you and i going to the office. but the question, bobby, obviously is, is this a real opening here?
numbers, though the percentages i mean one state flipped, his numbers went up. so overwhelmingly the referendum favored the president and the affordable care act. we ought to recognize that. we ought to respect that and move forward. thank you very much, congressman james clyburn. always good to have you on the program. thank you so much for having me. we are waiting for the president to arrive at the u.n. we are told that he has left. we ve already seen ambassador powers coming in. so as we wait, i want to bring in our company, joel ruben, director of policy and government affairs and a former state department officer. bobby gosh is times international editor and usa today s washington bureau chief susan page. good to see all of you, good morning. good morning. people don t usually sit around with bated breath waiting for the latest speech at the u.n. this is different. this is a really big deal today. what are we anticipating here? today is different.
been very successful. well, i think the key thing here is that what you have is a situation where they certainly have not been able to kill the top leaders. what you have here three leaders targeted last week remain active, including al wuhayshi. i think that is something that is very worth questioning. because if you are pressing such a drone cam fein as the u.s. is and the top three guys are still active, still operational, that does call into question its effectiveness. bobby ghosh, the stability of the yemen government. one of the things and i think one of the reasons you were there a year ago, we were into this, there was an arab spring. the united states tried to help and in this case apparently had more success in yemen with the transition than they did in egypt and in some of these other
essentially looks like he didn t have the capability to do this so he tried to get a plot launched by aqap. what do you make of the zawahiri aspiration, involvement, what does this mean for the aq network overall? it shows ayman al swear who has not had the same kind of international profile osama bin laden had wants to put himself on the world stage and asking his most effective assassin to do that. you asked about the drone campaign, a follow-up to what bobby was saying. al qaeda did control a piece of the country. either not just a drone campaign. there is an active war by the yemeni government that the u.s. is involved with in southern yemen. bob, i want to caulk aboutta, operational as the united states government says it is, as concerned as the u.s. government says it is. you ve pointed out, they haven t
the intercept occurred sometime last week. joining me to try to figure this out, chief correspondent richard engel, bob win drom and time international editor bobby gosh. richard, i want to start with you. suddenly we ve been hinting this was coming from yemen, the plot was launched from yemen, does this mean the way the u.s. responding this morning, somewhere inside of yemen is where they were targeting. we ve been told initially the focus was always yemen. that was the location where the target was most likely to be but there was a concern because people involved had connections across the region and really across the world. people we ve been speaking to said, yes, this attack is most likely going to take place, if it s going to take place at all, in yemen.