Thomas J. Ridge: “I think it's a big mistake. You have literally hundreds and hundreds of armed police officers roaming every major…”

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.

Either we make these effective tools or we replace them.

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…

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…