[MichiganMat]

Here you go. We're here squibling over GOP talking points and nobody has posted what was actually said:

No president, through all of American history, has ever ceded -- and nor would I -- the right to preempt in any way necessary, to protect the United States of America," the Democrat told moderator Jim Lehrer during the debate.

"But if and when you do it, Jim, you've got to do it in a way that passes the, the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people, understand fully why you're doing what you're doing, and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons."

It makes perfect sense to me.
We'll do what we gotta do, but we'll try our best to act responsibly with our friends, neighbors, and countrymen. Why is that so difficult for people to understand?