Governor of Texas Rick Perry, who was indicted with felony charges of overstepping his bounds as governor Friday, Sunday appeared on Fox News Sunday where he upheld his actions by saying he had been following the “rule of law.”

Perry was indicted by a Travis County grand jury on charges of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant for taking steps to force Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg from office because she had been arrested for drunk driving.

“I had lost confidence in (Lemberg) and the public had lost confidence in her,” Perry said, “and I did what every governor has done for decades, which is make a decision about whether it was the proper use of state monies to go to that agency and I vetoed it. That’s what the rule of law is really about.”

When Perry was asked whether he took the charges seriously; that is, whether he believed he would be charged with more than 100 years in prison, he said, “I certainly take everything I do seriously…. But let me just share with you, David Axelrod (Obama’s Senior Strategist in the 2012 election) said this was a very sketchy indictment. (Harvard Law) Professor (Alan) Dershowitz, who is not exactly my cheerleader, said that it was outrageous…. This is not the way that we settle differences, political differences, in this country. You don’t do it with indictments. We settle our political differences at the ballot box.”

When Beam asked Perry to what he attributes the decrease in the number of unaccompanied children entering the country, he said it was due to the attention the nation was giving the phenomenon.

Perry said also he believes the citizens of the US have a distrust in the government, and one of the key elements Obama could use to regain that trust would be to secure the border.