you are against all this stuff. it s all for you a theory. then you become president. you have got people you have 300 million americans who depend on you for their lives. you still have these incredibly stupid lapses into abstract liberalism as to when the christmas day bomber, the guy who tried to blow up the airliner over detroit. he is arrested and he is read his miranda rights. that s loony. you still get holder trying to take khalid sheikh mohammed. the guy who did 9/11 and to give him a civilian trial in new york so he can show the whole world that you know, we will give him his constitutional rights which he is not entitled to in the first place. they will still slip into this idiocy. however, conducting the war, protecting us against terrorists is a national security imperative. any president, left, right, and center would have to come to the same conclusions. but that is why the hypocrisy and the attacks by the left in those 8 years are so despicable.
the historic headline from the white house this week, the president of the united states endorses same-sex marriage. but the story behind the headlines may be just as dramatic and it culminated with vice president joe biden apologizing to president obama for forcing his hand on this hot button issue, a sore subject among some white house insiders. our chief whereas correspondent jessica yellen has been working the story for us. tell our viewers what you are hearing right now. i understand the vice president apologized to the president for putting him in a tough position on this situation and the president gave an understanding reply saying he knows that the vice president was speaking from the heart. the vice president s office also issued a statement saying it was the president who has been the leader on this issue since day one and the vice president never intended to distract from that. president obama says he was planning to say this sometime before the democratic conve
captions by vitac www.vitac.com anyone cheering president obama s new stance on same-sex marriage has vice president joe biden to thank. the president himself is now confirming what many had suspected that the vice president forced the president s hand when biden announced his support for gay marriage over the weekend and now we re hearing that s a sore subject at least among some white house insiders. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is working the story for us. what are you hearing over there, jessica? reporter: wolf, there are times when a president is more forgiving than his aides and this may be one of those times. some of the president s top aides are deeply annoyed. they acknowledge the president was going to come out and speak out in favor of same-sex marriage before the democratic convention, but boy, are they frustrated that vice president biden made it happen sooner than they wanted. he was planning to say this some time before the democra
he is clearly i hate to use the term, he is the general just at this. we are doing everything we can to get him. he is, again, the person who is the one most responsible for this. in addition to that, though, also in yemen there are doctors, and others, scientists who are working to constantly evade our security procedures. martha: we know that al-qaida goes back and tries things again. the underwear bomber was thwarted, arrested, i guess it would should come to no surprise to u us to efforts to do a better job would be under way are we to believe there was an insider or we inch fill kwraeuted the cell in the middle of the operation and were able to stop it in. all i can say is we do have sources, we had reason, this was being monitored from early on, and cia is very good at people
to these reports. it is similar to the device worn by the christmas day bomber back in 2009 and there wasn t any metal in this one. the thinking is that would allowed it to get through airport security. that is the tip of the iceberg on this one, folks and that s how we start a brand-new hour of america s newsroom. i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer. no americans were ever in danger, congressman michelle bachmann telling us last hour she does not necessarily believe that that is the case. the threat level is probably higher than ever before and would he need to make sure we are on top of it, because we have the entire world to cover, and that s why it s important that we are on top of these threats. martha: new york congressman peter king is chairman of the house homeland security committee. and he joins me this morning. good to have you today. good to be here, than that you. martha: one of the questions that popped into everybody s