we are obviously running out of time, and so, what i have said to the members of congress is that you need over the next 24 to 36 hours to give me some sense of what your plan is to get the debt ceiling raised. so, which political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours? maybe we should say the next 24 or the next 36. msnbc contributor jonathan capehart is an editorial writer for the washington post and jonathan, before we talk about the deficit negotiations, if they do or do not happen in the next 24 or 36 howevers i want to bring you up to date on something that our own mike is
tonight it s a victory for the united states, and this is a good moment to celebrate, all of us. yeah, it s true that intelligence failures are always highly publicized. intelligence successes, not necessarily always publicized because intelligence officials don t necessarily run out to alert the world that they did this or that. but in this particular case, a huge intelligence success for the central intelligence agency, for leon panetta, the outgoing director of the cia, and others who were involved in this operation. fran townsend s our homeland security contributor, worked for president bush as the homeland security adviser. you re getting more information on some of the details. we re going to be fully briefed in the course of the next few howevers on all the specific details of what happened, fran. but what are you learning? wolf, when the president says that there was a firefight and u.s. operatives were involved in this firefight and none were hurt, what he s telling you is
conventional weaponry when, instead, they used a missile. also the documents reveal a top secret group of american forces, especially tasked with hunting down top taliban leaders and either killing or capturing them on the spot without a trial. the obama administration has apparently increased the missions, despite some killings of civilians. also in these documents, nato troops are relying on remote-controlled predator drones more heavily. we did know some of this. howevers the performance of the drone aircraft is less than portrayed. some crash and collide and forcing american troops to undertake risky retrieval missions. some of the documents detail the disappearance of money meant for humanitarian aid such as the case of an orphanage that had no orphans at the site a full year after its opening. civilian death tolls are rising consistently with the taliban conducting a successful roadside