But we have had republicans who were complicit in this weakening as well. Weve had republicans who have stood on this stage today and said they were for a strong america, yet voted this summer in congress to weaken america. Voted to take away tools from our Intelligence Community that permits us to be able to connect the dots and do what president george w. Bush instructed me and the other 93 u. S. Attorneys in january of 2002, to do everything we could under the law to make sure that not another American Life was lost to a terrorist act on american soil. For seven years we did that, and we used those tools directly and constitutionally. And the American People remained safe. As we stand here today, for the First Time Since 9 11 i think were going to have to confront the loss of American Life on american soil to terrorist conduct. Now, theres many people today who are still trying to speculate about what happened in San Bernardino yesterday. Let me tell you as a former prosecutor, from