the very first day that we lived there, i walked downstairs and saw dick mo, the head of the national trust on historic preservation, on his way across the downstairs cross hall towards the west wing to meet with george and -- i told him that i wanted to continue to work on save america's treasures which hillary clinton started. when she was first lady before me, just because of my interest in historical preservation. so just -- and then i think things just sort of presented themselves. obviously women's rights and women's issues became very important as everyone in the world really turned to look at afghanistan. and saw how women were treated there. and i think american women were really horrified. the idea of a government that would forbid half of their population from being educated was really shocking to us and i noticed, i could tell, american women really felt very strong sense of sisterhood with women in afghanistan and wanted to do whatever they could to help. and so, you know, a lot of other things, too, as well. >> i wish they would show that picture of you with all the saud

atrocities at places like i have been and get mo and made the indefinite detention of terror suspects routine he with the help of fellow war criminals dick cheney and don rumsfeld scared the hell out of our lawmakers so that they too would go along with shredding civil liberties out of fear that terrorists would do could american city if they didn't comply we descended into a national insanity and in the midst of all of this george w. bush left office and president obama moved in and went to still terrified congress tried to in shrine bush era indefinite detention into law president obama pushed back arguably he didn't push back near hard enough and ended up signing into law the national defense authorization act including indefinite detention but he did so with a signing statement that read i want to clarify that my administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of american citizens indeed i believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation my ministration will interpret section ten twenty one in a manner that ensures that any detention that authorizes complies