host: tom garrett of the international republican institute. thanks for being on the program this morning. coming up in about 45 minutes, a discussion regarding civil liberties and the patriot act. but after our break we'll be talking about the fiscal condition of the united states. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> a lot of the actions that harry truman took made my life easier as president and therefore many of the decisions i made through executive order are the most controversial orders i made such as listening to the phone calls of people who might do us harm or enhanced interrogation techniques became the law of the land. in other words, after the 04 elections and after the 06 elections i went to congress and said we need to ratify through legislative action that which i had done within the constitution by executive order. and so the congress in spite of the fact that we had been tough, passed law that now enables a president to have these certain tools. and