not a terrorist act. right. again, there s a looseness with words here. we ve seen it in lots of ways manifest itself during the campaign, on twitter, and now in his white house. he s not going to stop being loose with words. i think we just have to make sure we take note of them. there s a tendency that you get a little bit, callus is the wrong word, but it builds up and there are small things we don t notice it. numb to it. numb to it, exactly right. this is a big deal and we have to note it. we have to put a pin in it and say, this happened, and we need to follow up and say why did he say that, if the facts don t bear it out? it has been pinned by chris cilliz cillizza. and i want to leave everybody with this, jim acosta is reporting from yesterday, when he the asked about this, a quote from a white house official the president had been briefed that media reports indicated isis had taken credit. that is what jim acosta was told yesterday. and i think that is an importa
we ve already talked about how many people lost their life in haiti. i don t want anybody to lose their life if my state. this is going to be bad, 140-plus-mile-an-hour winds, 9-foot plus storm surge, plus waves on top of that. 12 inches of rain, rip currents, beach erosion. if we don t have landfills if it doesn t hit land, we still will have hurricane-force winds. governor, you know there are people on the beaches, last-minute surfers, just a minority of people, but we re looking at live pictures now of some of them i believe in daytona beach. what s your message to these individuals? you re risking your life. during the middle of the storm, i can t send in first responders to risk their lives to save yours. you are taking the chance that you shouldn t be taking. you should not put your family at risk. we re doing everything we can. we re making sure we have fuel
more sacred than the right to vote. i have heard a consistent drumbeat of concern from citizens who often for the percent time inner that lives now have reason to believe that we are failing to live up to one of our nation s most noble ideals and some of achievements that define the civil rights movement now hang again in the balance. about you critics claim holder s remarks politicize the justice department in a role they believe the attorney general shouldn t be taking. did holder cross the line? jason riley is a member of the wall street journal editorial board and a fox news contributor. he joins us with details on how he views eric holder s the attorney general s comments. what do you you have to say, jason? eric holder is the highest ranking law enforcement official in the u.s. wields a tremendous amount of power including political power and it is a little disconcerting for me to listen to him sound pretty much no different than likes of al sharpton on the issue of race
we don t know whether they had probable cause or warrants. heather you ask is it legal, we don t know. i know that they were monitoring websites that were public forums. what about that. that can be done without even a warrant. if you look at national security reasons where are the recruitment places. i talked to the former head of al-qaeda in great britain and he said we recruit at universities. we recruit young pakistani males. i talked to one man head of mi 6 in great britain and he said one of the best ways they recruit is on camping trips where young men go and this recruited. but you can t just go and take things you shouldn t be taking. i think that is what yale university is so upset about. a rafting trip where they infiltrated and put someone there. when it comes to a broad base of security like national security individuals rights are trumped in this situation.