past. sir, the president says al baghdadi was under surveillance for quite some time. here s what defense secretary mark esper had to say about it today. take a listen. stars started lining up some time ago. in the past couple of weeks, week or so, the operational forces, which were one of several options available to the president, started rehearsing and practicing and doing what they would have to do on the objective. it wasn t until thursday and then friday the president chose his option and gave us the green light to proceed as we did yesterday. is there any sense to you, sir, this may have been a now or never type decision, given the history of al baghdadi and the way he was able to move for so long undetected officially? oh, absolutely. i mean, this bull sticks his head up very infrequently. the last time we heard from him was back in april. the other thing that s interesting about this operation is, sure, they practiced for months, i got that.
gorsuch. this court and most courts would look at the law, look the president, try do the best they can. different courts come to different conclusion. came to the conclusion this appears to be constitutional. in the end you will have complicated results. it may not. this may be a case that the court will come to a more unanimous type decision. airy, the office of legal department of justice, as i understand it, reviewed this before it went out. you have this to advise the president. how is this this o obviously, decision by so many that the judges 3-0 get it so wrong?