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Presidency. you look at the way congress tried to stop bill clinton going into the balance cans the way they did, his action without consulting congress was upheld as appropriate under the war powers act. a president would have to cut new ground, do something like barack obama promised as a candidate he would do, which is to say no, i believe in defining presidential authority to wage war in a way that is more explicit, and therefore more constricted. he has not done that. he is acting consistent with the way bill clinton acted and consistent with the way other presidents acted in modern times...

Doesn't get into the top ten? >> a lot of surprises. jackie robinson. in the full 25, there was no al sharpton. so there's a lot of surprises. and, you know, it just goes to show you the depth of individuals that this country has seen from the african-american community that have made huge couldn't abuses that rocky robinson, that al sharpton, that colin powell doesn't make the list. >> i saw two names that were -- that really stood out. homer plessy and dread scott, both famous for losing these con convention cases. one on plessy versus ferguson and the dread scott case. how do you explain th...

>> what do you think he was saying on the print pool? >> that's the right answer. having appointed judges myself, you do not ask them questions about that. i don't believe anything he says. so who knows what he will do when they get in there. >> what do you make of the president saying he is not going to ask a potential nominee whether it's appropriate or inappropriate about what they think of the decision? >> you don't have ask, you already know. we have he was evidence of it from mike lee, the senator from utah who is one of the leading contenders. he is on record as saying that it's like th...

Opportunity. >> this is located in between egypt and tunesia. he was very specific about the problem being the flood of refugees, over those particular borders, which could indicate another situation with another refugee movement that wouldn't be as strategically important as refugees flooding into tunesia or egypt at this fragile point in the aftermath of their revolutions. >> i think the refugees point was sort of -- it led to the more specific point about why libya, and the more specific point about why libya was international coalition, the libyans themselves asking for it, and the ability...

>> he named this as an important strategic interest of the united states and as being in america's national interest. but the things that he described as proving that were potential flood of refugees in the middle east, the democratic impulses on view in the middle east with the various revolutions and uprisings being quenched by this brutal dictator, and un credibility, speaking for the international community and stepping up in cases like this. that is the sort of thing, you could make that case about america having a strong national strategic interest for any number of other conflicts or po...