Posse comitatus. You know, you know those old Western television shows where said, we got to form a posse to go after the bad. That's Posse Comitatus.It's it's an old kind of common law back in the Middle Ages. It's power of the county. It's getting the county together to go after bad guys.That's where the term posse concerns Posse Comitatus. So he's trying to invoke this kind of, you know, lawlessness. We've got to get a posse together to go after lawlessness in D.C. The president has more power to do so b ...

Joining us now, Jasmine Wright, White House correspondent for Notice, Ashley Parker, staff writer at The Atlantic and an MSNBC political analyst, and Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney, chief strategist for his 2012 campaign. Uh, Jasmine, I don't know how you're reading what we just heard from the president, what he's been saying over the last many days. Are there signs he might be wavering in the face of this push back from Chicago, from the governor, the mayor? What are we expecting here? Well, I think it's clea ...

Anybody murders something in the capital, capital punishment. Capital capital punishment. If somebody kills somebody in the capital, Washington DC, we're going to be seeking the death penalty.And that's a very strong uh preventative. And everybody that's heard it agrees with. ...