the white house called up the justice department and said forget about this. he could have i think a more centrist second year than a lot of my conservative friends think. i m not so sure that he couldn t move awkwardly and incrementally. we could look up fro two months from now and it could be a different obama administration than it seemed to be two months ago. it will be. i think he always planned to move to have a more centrist second year. focus on the deficit. certainly less big tough votes for his party to take in advantage. at the beginning of the obama administration all of us asked the question which is we were going to test the thesis of how much congress could handle because he was giving them more than any other congress has been asked to do. financial reregulation, cap and trade, healthcare. the answer is not it this much. i think that that is one thing that he has learned. it was too much for congress to do. the biggest the biggest
five years after being inaugural rated five days after he said we are going to fundamentally transform the united states of america. that wasn t his mandate. it was not his authority. luckily it turned out to be beyond his ability. does he learn lessons from the first year, the failure to close guantanamo, the failure of the healthcare plan, letting justice department deal with terrorists, all the things he tried and failed. does he really learn the lesson. chris: what you saw in the state of the union has he learned the less on or not? mixed. he understands that things went wrong. he is not in denile of reality. the question is does he take the consequences of what happened or pull back and be a little more cautious and trying to do the same thing. in some areas he seems to be moving. look at how quickly they dropped the trial in new york city of khalid sheik muhammad. mayor bloomberg said now and
one, to hold the trial in new york city. two, either somebody or in the justice department but it is under him to charge or to read abdulmutallab his miranda rights after only 50 minutes of fbi interrogation. is he in trouble and should he be in trouble? he is close with the president and i think that will count. it shouldn t. he has made fundamental mistakes in the war on terror. interrogation of someone attempting an attack on the united states who came out of yemen and presumably who knows something about what is happening in yemen which is the most active al-qaeda cell in the worldld who gets essentialy is pass on giving us information. that was a mistake that apparently his department made unany laterally. the trial of skm is a sham. it will be costly, it will lock down half of new york and makes
first year. five years after being inaugural rated five days after he said we are going to fundamentally transform the united states of america. that wasn t his mandate. it was not his authority. luckily it turned out to be beyond his ability. does he learn lessons from the first year, the failure to close guantanamo, the failure of the healthcare plan, letting justice department deal with terrorists, all the things he tried and failed. does he really learn the lesson. chris: what you saw in the state of the union has he learned the less on or not? mixed. he understands that things went wrong. he is not in denile of reality. the question is does he take the consequences of what happened or pull back and be a little more cautious and trying to do the same thing. in some areas he seems to be moving. look at how quickly they dropped the trial in new york city of khalid sheik muhammad. mayor bloomberg said now and
base where it would be perfectly clear it would not cost $200 million to try him there. he thought that he shouldn t be tried in the civilian court. it was the cost, the security. once everybody understood what was going to happen to lower manhattan they changed their mind so it wasn t idea logical. there are other places that want this trial to nap their communities. they have this to happen in their communities. i think it could happen even in the southern district of new york which is where the best terrorism prosecutors are and there are many reasons to have it in there and newberg, new york, is in that district. chris: let me ask a question that i asked the blue ribbon panel as opposed to you guys who o are, what, a yellow ribbon panel or something like that. it was eric holder the attorney general who made the calls, one, to hold the trial in new york city. two, either somebody or in the justice department but it is under him to charge or to read