striking. she is with politics for two generations. i think with political sniping in general in washington, but it doesn t match the facts. i think what everybody is watching what she says is what did she think was necessary to do on behalf of the united states government, not o politics, not on opoptics, but d she come into information, which has been reported but we ve never heard her say it herself, that basically raised such serious concerns that she wanted to tell the white house that there were problems, and then that, of course, is not only potentially bad for flynn but it could be bad for the white house if it is seen as the kind of information, to use a legal standard, that a reasonable person could have acted on and they didn t. i last spoke to sally yates in october, shortly before all this began when she became acting attorney general, and she was very proud of the nonpartisan work she had done as a
remarks at the white house in response to that shooting a few days ago. in his presidential press conference on friday, president obama went so far as to urge individual americans to become single issue voters on the issue of gun law reform. he said with some emotion he is not going to stop talking about this issue, even though it upsets people when he does. he said something has to be done to change the pot o politics around the issue of guns in the united states and he intends to do all he can to do that. now president obama, himself, will be going personally to the site of our nation s latest high profile mass shooting. so that trip on friday to roseburg, oregon, that should put a big public spotlight not just on the guns did issue but on the president s effort to change the politics, the political dynamics around gun laws. i think that spotlight is something democrats up to and including the president used to be shy about. democrats used to avoid having to talk about guns, unless t