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Kelly: well, you say -- i understand you're relating it to other presidents, but this is a really serious topic, the fact that the nation is under a threat alert, and you have closed some 19 consulates, and you go on a late night talk show to talk about that. >> exactly. kelly: and you also talk about the nsa leaker, edward snowden. is that the proper forum? >> no, it's not. >> he'll be asked today by the press. kelly: i understand that. but does the media give him a pass for not coming to the white house press corps first or the american people for that matter saying, look, this is a very ser...

You. this was the first time that president obama commented on those heightened terror alerts. and, yet, he chose "the tonight show" with jay leno. is this the right forum and the right platform to get his message across? >> you know, i think what the white house would say is when they're on something like "the tonight show" the president is able to get a very wide audience. but i also think some people will say, hey, is this really a serious forum and, also, just the fact that president obama if he's going to be questioned one-on-one by a journalist versus jay leno, the questions are going to...

Himself. >> and not just terror alerts. there were a whole spectrum of topics that were covered. snowden in russia, he expressed his disappointment at russia granting temporary asylum to. what is your take on the discussion? >> i think it was like a six-month review of his second term. if you really think about it, barack obama has been under so much pressure from boston and from trying to pass gun control and then benghazi and then the irs scandal. he hasn't had an opportunity to sit down and really talk to the public. this is what i have been doing for the last six, seven months. i think he ...

Heightened terror alerts, do you have any reason to believe that there for us to be concern, like in chicago or anywhere else, what is the federal government saying about that? >> they are on heightened alert. you had the department homeland security secretary janet napolitano she did not believe the federal government did not believe that the boston incident was tied to a greater plot other than the boston incident. whether it has a bigger plot, in other words, tied to a bigger organization, they wouldn't say. whether it is foreign or domestic, federal officials would not say. as far as anyth...

Killing was justified under the theory that he was pursuing. >> in a way was that a successful strategy in the sense that -- i mean, play us because -- you know, even putting aside the enormity of september 11, an utter transformation in the country and and media in which terrorism, terror alerts, investigations, plots, videotape would come out, color code change and alert would take place, just changed the tenor and the nature of what we do in the news business. >> right. television, first of all, the media, are a fact of life. you can't wish them away. when 3,000 people are killed in a surpr...