supporters because they believe in protecting religious freedom in america, in hard line immigration policies. they want to crack down on gangs. so while the president is furious that jeff sessions is not ending investigations, he does understand mr. sessions also understands that the two of them agree on a lot things. and as i see it the president has two options, he can keep up the attack with the goal of jeff sessions saying enough is enough, i ll step aside, the other is he could fire him directly, just do it. which is what we ve discussed seems like he is averse to doing. what is the california california-of-calculus there? i think it is a political cal you could you husband.
and that it is in danger of winking out of existence. explain a bit more about how fragile, how brittle of rule of law seems at this point. the rule of law seems stretched for exactly the reasons that katie identifies. we have a president who doesn t believe in it and who certainly doesn t believe that it applies to him. trump thinks he is above the law. he thinks that he can tell prosecutors who and how to prosecute. he thinks that he can tell the attorney general which cases to open and which cases not to open. and all of this runs contrary to this foundational idea where our country was founded in in many ways to avoid subjecting citizens to the whims of kings. and unelected leaders. and now we have a president 200 plus years late who ar who is t to set himself above the law.
recognized the real threat, and he seized upon the drone as the potentially the ideal answer to the problem. he would often tell the aides, let ee s kill the people who ar trying to kill us, and by implication not all of the people who are dying in the big wars. so he actually while it was classified so he didn t talk much about it on the campaign trail explicitly, he d actually planned all along to yuse the drones in an aggressive way to take on al qaeda in pakistan. and how about al awlaki, more powerful as the propaganda figure, alive or dead? well, one of the remarkable things about anwar al awlaki is that he remanins today four yeas after his death in the yemen in a drone strike, he is a powerful influence, and i would say more than half of the terrorism cases that i look at in the united states or cases where the young
vote who ar who is talking to y? obviously it s more challenging than the last debate. among other things, there s no closing argument. the campaign felt really good about mitt romney s closing argument and his two-minute comments throughout the course of the first debate. he won t have that opportunity this debate. the romney campaign has had kwie quite the presence in the buckeye state over the past few days. how do they feel about their chances in ohio? it s a good question. senator rob portman was on one of the sunday morning shows today. he, of course, is from ohio. he also plays the part of barack obama, the sparring partner to mitt romney during their debate sessions. he said he feels confidently they can still win without ohio, but it s not a risk they want to take right now. you ve noted the statistics. no republican has won the white house without winning the state of ohio. jfk was the last president to win the presidency at all without winning ohio. they feel like they r
selected to carry in that flag. it is about 8 by 12 feet and torn and burned and can t be put up a flagpole so you got to bring it in who ar who are hor. he said we expected they would burst into cheers but instead total silence and complete reverence. the choir began performing the national anthem. he said mitt it was hard to hold on to my emotion as they were singing those words and i was holding on to the flag. and he said the choir did something i hadn t expected. i knew it was coming because i was in charge of the olympics and picked the version of the national anthem they sang. a 1930s version where you repeat the last line as a reprieve. the sopranos g go up in ob tak.