At the end of the day, it's the job of both the president to split from the liberal base of his party and it's the job of the Republicans to split in some ways from the most vociferous base of the conservative party.
Fleischer discusses the need for both parties to distance themselves from their extreme bases to achieve progress.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat in California, has come out in favor of this.
Yes, this is -- this is one of those weird issues, John. I mean, Dick Cheney is right. Barack Obama is right and Paul Begala is wrong. And that doesn't happen too often.
Let me just for argument's sake grant his argument, his logic, none of what he said would have stopped 9/11 from taking place.
The president needs to bring the Paul Begalas of the world over. What is most important is that this country have a bipartisan template for how to fight terror.
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