reporting i've found, again and again that she and everybody else on the white house said one eye on the heliconituation and also the attacks you went through in the 2008 campaign were really pretty painful for her and everybody around here to be, you know, that new to public life and to watch yourself character should the way was really, really hard. you know, the hen and twist, i think to it, though, is that the you know, what her age talked-about was that the traditional nature of first lady head, which was so confining it first ended up protecting her of bed because political life is so difficult that it is another way of limiting, saying, i don't do policy, i don't have to be part of this discussion and not trying to giving gays to in these kinds of debates. at think there is something in a protective quality about the traditional of that role. now she is planning a much more prominent role to help from a role in the presence of messes, which is why she wanted. >> moments, and then during that she displays, but almost moments of real vulnerability. one or you describe she is touring stores

you can be helicon -- accountable, for any decision the to make, including supporting a candidate.f you own the candidate and are not beholden to anyone, that is your decision. to me, if people understand, it has always been available for people. dan abrams, a tremendous constitutional scholar, floyd abrams son, argued the case with us that olson argued for me and floyd. one of the most articulate and phenomenal supreme court lawyers on the first amendment cases. he does articulate the passion for the first amendment. he wrote a piece in the last few days that really reset what people know, and what they do not know. when you are on camera, it is easy to say -- citizens united open the floodgates. which is not true. i find it funny, but it has brought citizens united into the political lexicon as never before. we appreciate the shout out by the president this week. i am sending him a membership card. obviously, for two years -- and if i could, two years ago, january 21, we had our supreme court victory. eight days later the president of the united states held the state of the union