they have a position on this. that it will not be labeled as the party of no. listen to what john boehner said. that s why doing immigration reform in a common-sense, step by step manner helps or members understand the bite-sized pieces, that helps our constituents build more confidence that what we are doing makes sense. reporter: what we do know is what they won t accept, alex. that s the senate bill. they won t accept anything to do with amnesty. and they want the border to be secure. at this point it s still until clear what constitutes border security for house republicans. the joke around here is do they need a motor with alligators and predator drones? remember that senate bill had billions for border security, so much sore that senator corker called it overkill.
diplomatically. reporter: what the u.s. has provided so far are predator drones and agreed to giving them hellfire missiles. these are precision weapons. what they don t want to do at this point is give them weapons that could be used in a broader sense against, against, you know, the prime minister s opponents. bill: one quick thing. bob gates is out there on a book tour, former defense secretary. he has a lot to say. does he say how the u.s. should now handle the rise of al qaeda in iraq in towns like fallujah and ramadi? reporter: well, interestingly enough he did respond. in an interview with the bbc yesterday, when asked if the u.s. should provide the iraqis weapons, gates said, quote said i think yes but it needs to be conditioned for maliki to reach out to the sunnis to make them integral part of iraqi government and iraqi society. he has done as much to encourage the rise of al qaeda through his
claimed responsibility the mall attack in kenya that left 60 people dead. s.e.a.l. team six carried out the raid. it s unclear whether he was killed during the firefight. join me now, jim miklaszewski. jima lot of questions around this raid. first and foremost the structure of the operation, drones used in counter-terrorism operations, is this the new model going forward, special forces going in for a strike. as you well know the obama administration has come under quite a bit of criticism for it s almost total reliance on drone strikes, missiles fired from predator drones in what some people is actually killing without any due process. in terms of these two missions, they were both intended to capture the targets. obviously it was successful in
yosemite on edge and now using predator drones to battle the flames. also, hacked and still down. hacked against security awareness. new york times website shuttered and suffering. and why won t this story go away? miley cyrus now the beebs wants in on the twerking action. this is getting ridiculous. newsroom back after a break. [ female announcer ] a classic macaroni & cheese from stouffer s
term loon, that helps to highlight your fair an balanced nature, but, look, the nature here is not about whether or not drones are defensible at all. that s a straw argument used by war hawks to suggest that somehow the left is saying that at no moment should drones ever be used. president oba used today s speech to reassert a very dangerous foreign policy. and i might add he did it to divert our attention from i don t know what the danger is really important and profound, bill. is he doing it to distract us from the irs. he is doing this distract us from the a.p. sector of american people who are on his butt right now because of that stuff. those same people love war hawk talk. that s the same reason is he giving speech today to divert our attention. specifically the issue is not whether whether or not a drone has any usefulness in our lives. as a surveillance drone i m fine with that i could even live with, although i don t love it it i could live with predator drones under certain c