i have. most brutal? not in a beat-you-up-sort-of-sense. running the marathon, running the gauntlet day after day. when i ended my 2008 campaign i was exhausted, i was drained. it was quite an experience. i m quick to add that part of it is we have a different idea about free expression, about the role of money in politics as the supreme court has recently said. and we are a big complex country. and is getting through that gauntless, to be one of the nominees to run for president requires a lot of stamna. and we re back with our political panel. byron is, she running? certainly sounds that way. i mean, it was a terrible answer by the way. there is brutal and then there is brutal. there is a lot of difference between our primary system and things that are happening in the middle east for right now. she appears to be. but, you know, there is going to be these questions are simply not going to go away. there was one that bret
when finished, the rope will run 370 miles and be the first of its kind. it s nearly halfway down. work remains slow in some parts due to threat of ied s and ambushes. it s this section of road that the army believes could make the biggest difference because when it s completed, it will not only connect the tribal community here in north waziristan to mainstream pakistan, and it will go across the boardtory afghanistan three miles ahead. amna, we ve had this conversation in the morning. i wanted to extend some of it, and that is i want to talk about the cultural aspects. being a woman journalist. how much harder or how different was it being in this region that is obviously in literally in the dark ages when it comes to jeshd issues. it s i think it s very safe to challenge. i think any female journalist in the region, and there are quite a few, would tell you the same thing, and it speaks, as you
in fact, drone strikes in pakistan. and over the weekend, there was what they are telling us was a successful drone strike in yemen which they believe took out an al qaeda suspect one of those responsible for the attack on the uss dmocole in 2000. the drone strikes are continuing and they don t seem willing to release any al qaeda prisoners either. that s very true. the list of diamonds made in the audio and video statement are going to be almost impossible to meet. it the drone strikes in particular here in pakistan are of particular sensitivity. as you know, the relationship between the u.s. and pakistan has been on a steady decline for the last year and in recent talks, the drone issue specifically has been at the heart of those discussions. andrea? and we should also point out only today in india, hillary clinton said that she believes that al zawahiri is still in pakistan. amna, thank you very much for being with us today.
a traditional outfit. it s clean, neat, pressed. he s seated at a table. of book him. he has plates of food before him and even eats some of ta food as he delivers that message. that message is one in which he s speaking directly to president obama. it s important to note for the roughly 2:30 on which he appears on the camera, he makes an appeal toll president obama as an american citizen, asking him that he please consider the demands of his captors. those demands were made by al qaeda chief ayman al zawar hirery last last year, early this year and include not only that the u.s. stop all strikes around the world including afghanistan, pakistan, yemen, somalia and gaza, but also that all al qaeda and taliban prisoners worldwide be released. amna, the u.s. has recently resumed, acknowledges resuming drone strikes.
for the first time since american aid worker warren weinstein was kidnapped in pakistan nine months ago, he s been seen on video making a desperate plea for help. we don t know when it was tapds. u.s. officials are analyzing that video to determine how and when it got out and to authenticate the message. amna, thanks so much for being with us. this is such a heartbreaking story for his family. a private aid worker, he lived in lahore. was kidnapped. al qaeda is claiming responsibility. and they have some demands that are going to be very hard for the u.s. or indeed pakistan to go along with. that s true. as you mentioned, it s impossible for us to know when or where their video was made. that said, just by watching it we can tell there s clearly an effort being made to show that this is a man very much alive, he s very much well and he is being taken care of at least in the this video. he appears in the video wearing