agent, she's distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute and happens to be the author of "messing with the enemy" and the michael schmidt, our correspondent for the new york times. >> clint, gathering your past experience all up in one answer, your initial reaction tonight is what the president saying illegal for viewers who have not heard and how is a foreign leader to view what they just heard our president's saying? >> the president's job is to protect all americans and not just some americans, from all enemies and foreign and domestics. we do not take any sort of influence from a foreign power at all.