"There’s not a Democrat that doesn’t support spying on Al-Qaeda. The difference between the Democrats and the President is we believe the President should follow the law. The law says that the President does not have unchecked authority to spy on any American he chooses, which is what’s going on right now. The fact is that 19,000 times Presidents, including this one, have gone to court and asked for permission to spy. All but 5 of those times they got it. We’re not asking the President to be soft on terror; we’re simply just asking the President to both lead the nation, but also to follow the law."