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Will mean this is more likely to take longer rather than shorter. >> depends on who it is. you know, it depends on who it is. we've gone through. i understand your view, and i know what happened in both administrations, in the clinton administration, the bush administration, maybe we ought to start getting special prosecutors of getting things done, and not dragging it out, not making their names -- not going hog-wild as they say, where i grew up. >> that sounds great, greta. the person who's going to have to point them is the department of justice, the attorney general of the united states. w...

Ashcroft had to stop it because they thought it was illegal. that's the difference. president obama has the authorization of congress, support of congress and got the courts overseeing it and within the executive branch checks and balances. i still don't like it, but it's not illegal and looks like it was under mr. bush and cheney. >> you've also said in the past this current administration on these issues is basically a continuation, a third bush term particularly national security. after hearing president obama last night, you tweeted this, president obama denies he's dick cheney. i love it....

And then, you know -- >> let the people see how mundane it is. >> i think both ryan's point and robert's point speak to the crucial question as to whether a scandal has legs or not. whether it is a true scandal or not. which is what is the white house involvement. i mean i think back to the second bush term, when a bunch of u.s. attorneys were fired all at once, it was a huge justice department controversy what made it a real scandal, what made it really damage the white house was that there was white house involvement. and so that's going to be the focus on all three of these. the a.p. phone ...

Children? kate joins us, and from washington, kirsten powers. am i over the top when i say we've become a barbaric nation, powers? >> well, i think the stuff you were discussing with bob beckel, the way the baby was disregarded and late term abortion thing, that is barbaric in my mind. i think we are supposed to be a country that protects the most vulnerable among us and what's more vulnerable than a baby? >> bill: so if that's true, and beckel got real upset when i said this, and i always know when i'm getting beckel when he gets upset -- the people pushing the late term abortions and the peo...

>> bill: so are you saying that the national press feels impotent in the face of the -- >> no. but the pattern of presidents limiting the access to the national press and the case of bill clinton, he pioneered the thing about going to the local press has gotten far worse under president obama. he promised to be the most transparent president ever. and he hasn't. >> bill: he doesn't like us. rosen, is there anything sinister about any of this or just the obama administration trying to protect itself? >> there is two further points to be made and neither of them require reference to liberal bias...