give the order for what ended up being a failed rescue attempt during the iran hostage situation. i mean, the interesting thing here is there's two issues, right? the issue of does the president have the right to brag about what he did, does he have the right to make it a big deal and say -- and make that an issue? and then the question of, you know, do you go one step further and attack mitt romney, criticize mitt romney as sort of somebody who wouldn't have done the same thing? that's really where i think the romney campaign got particularly upset yesterday and particularly needed to push back on this notion that somehow he'd be weak, which as ann says is an irony given kind of where the republican democratic parties have been over the last couple of decades. >> and the president we should say also weighed in on this. let me play that for you. >> i said that i'd go after bin laden if we had a clear shot at him. and i did. if there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they do something else, then i'd