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President. do you connect it, as april does, to the uproar really over it? do you connect it to the troubles that the president is going through now legally and politically? >> i certainly connect it to the negative media coverage. there was really a backlash when the flag that was lowered upon the news of mccain's death saturday evening went back up at midnight yesterday, as u.s. flag code dictates, without a proclamation from the president. i think that's why his aides were so eager for him to sign it. but when no proclamation came, a media firestorm erupted. the president does not like nega...