right. that is i think the strongest case for some of the gun control measures that have been batted around. we don t hear about them. the issue of suicide. when the president says this is a response to newtown and a response to homicides in chicago, that is mostly just political posturing because the record of the last ten or 20 years is that most gun control measures don t affect homicide rates. but they do have some impact if you throw up some impediments to people purchasing guns that gives them a moment to rethink, a week to rethink. and that is where the case gets a little stronger suicide and shooting people, both of them. do you think it can have an effect? yeah. i think if there is an opportunity to say, hey. i m going to take a minute and file paperwork and look for it, a background check. it gives someone the opportunity to not necessarily work in the heat of the moment and to have that gun in a situation where they shoot themselves or shoot someone else. but also
xichl scism that is evident by the fact that the old school republicans are focusing on the financial, fiscal conservativism, and then you have sort of the newer republicans who are who don t care as much about social conservativism and aren t as involved in the party because of that. where do you see the party going on this? do you think the republican party is going to stand this is the position of the republican party and it is not going to change? absolutely. and when it comes to money and donations it is a perfect situation right now. if you want to support republicans who support gay marriage send it to them. that is what happened today. it is now a perfect example. if you like a specific person send the money to them. the rnc meeting in california today reaffirmed we re not going to split. make it official. if you want to do your thing go ahead. guns in the news a lot today and pastor rick warren and our
friend wolf belilitzer who reli as much on teleprompters as i do. it s tough to criticize presidents for this type of thing because we really not as easy to read the teleprompter as it looks. he does an excellent job. don t you think he does a great job? at reading the teleprompter. it looks really natural when he is moving back and forth. he has two. you can t really tell. we only have four in here right now. we have five. even going back to 2007, 2008. i always thought he was one of the best teleprompter speakers. who do you have on the show? we have a lot of good guests coming up in the situation room. the ranking member on the house intelligence committee has been briefed on what is going on with north korea. i wonder if anything is going to happen tonight and over the weekend. we re waiting what is going to happen there and will get the latest information from him. we have a reporter from the new york times with a hot new book out on the drone strikes, how th
americans. and the national lead, sleep tight and don t let the bedbugs bite, with this home remedy. scientists think they found a way to get rid of the little blood suckers and doesn t involve spraying your covers down with a nasty pesticide. one of our very leads today, a world lead, part two, of our look at a decade of drone strikes in pakistan, the relationship was a critical partner in the fight against terrorism. yesterday, we broke the news that former pakistani president pervez musharraf told cnn s senior international correspondent nic robertson that pakistan secretly signed off on u.s. drone strikes while he was in power. today, kninic looks at how the strikes are affecting civilians caught in the cross fire. reporter: as the debate in washington over drones remains mostly theoretical, here in pakistan, the impact of the drones is very real, killing not
represents 100 families like khan s. of an estimated 2,000 or more killed in pakistan, upwards of 200 are thought to be civilians. drones are creating not just one generation, but generations of jihadists because if you kill a father, his son will come and if you kill the son his grandson will come and this is what is happening. reporter: at this taliban training camp, filmed area film exclusively for cnn there is no shortage of recruits but no doubt drones are finding the targets. this building was destroyed a few weeks later. nine taliban killed according to the journalist who visited the camp. taliban graves for those killed in drone strikes litter the area. so do the low tech camps. the drones so fear but don t stop the training. after ten years of strikes the taliban are more brutal than ever and what was once known as