Josh Marshall of TalkingPointsMemo sat down with John Edwards after the candidate’s major policy address on terrorism and the war in Iraq at Pace University in NYC on September 8.

Sound Bite: “Is there a serious threat of terrorism? Of course there is. And the President of the United States has a responsibility to address it globally . . . but what Bush has done is he created this phrase [Global War on Terror] for the specific political purpose of allowing him to do whatever he wanted.”