every come a months a big foreign policy win and a story how the president strode manfully into the room add was the central personal player in this decision. it just is -- mccain has a point. a long drum beat of the drama on the "new york times" article. >> i think the bin laden kill is stoelgtsly different from the kill list. >> you may not be a swing voter. >> clearly not looking for people's heads on stakes. >> the kill list was driven. everything we know about the drone program, by investigating reporting. that kill list story was excellent reporting at the "new york times." the way they framed it, ben exactly right. frame it as, obama is in control. i think i've written one of those foreign policy stories where obama walks into the, you know, oval office -- but i really think that they were forced -- the media and civil liberties group forced their hand on the kill list and finally said, okay, we're going to give it out to you.