Thomas J. Ridge: “Are you ready to take on the fight to do what is best for the country, not what is best for the politicians?”

I doubt if there's a Republican or Democrat today, Mayor or Governor that wouldn't contest the unilateral incursion of Federal agents without coordination with state and local law enforcement officials.

If we endure another attack and the intelligence officials had indications or information regarding that attack and the president did not want to listen to that for whatever reason, the responsibility for that attack would fall on the…

I'm right now, I'm more concerned about... trying to do public anecdote to these un-American, unpresidential, unsubstantiated -- there's no historical antecedent. It's corrosive. It's undermining the legitimacy, sowing seeds of doubt in…

While he may think he has the authority and legally, he might. He will not get and achieve the outcomes that I believe he wants and the President wants and the mayor wants, if you act unilaterally.