[bondjamesbond]

And, actually, after I was there for a fairly short period of time, the Capitol Police came to my home, knocked on the door, and said that they were gathering up senators to take us to a -- to a safe or secure location. And I said, "Well, what about my wife and my kids?" And they said, "Well, they'll stay here."

And I said, "Well, if they're staying here, I'm saying here." So...

KING: You didn't go.

J. EDWARDS: I did not go.

John F'n Kerry may be a lying scoundrel and a complete waste of human skin, but he is a senior US Senator. He had a duty to preserve his life for the good of the country.

There are those who criticize President Bush for not immediately flying back to Washington DC, but this criticism misses the point. The President had the duty to maintain the integrity of the National Command Authority. That duty was greater than the duty to his children or to his cherished wife. He did what he had to do.

John Kerry did not.

[BabsC]

Did you mean John Edwards. Kerry was at work, I don't think he went home to his keeper.

[weegee]

This was Edwards who went home, not Kerry. Kerry went into government shelter (alongside McCain, as Teresa points out prominently to Larry King in a separate interview).