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Confronted with, the challenge that we are facing is not the working level guy, some mustache-twirling villain out to destroy your life. its the fact that senior officials are investing themselves with powers that they are not entitled to, and they are doing it without asking the public for any kind of consent. >> is what i heard you feeling bad for the damage to the nsa as a result of what you have exposed from the nsa? >> well, what you need to understand in what i was saying -- i guess not wh...

About nsa abuses before going rogue. >> the nsa has records and i have raised these complaints not just officially, but in writing through e-mail to these offices, and these individuals, but to the my supervisors, to my colleagues and in more than one office. >> and now, in the e-mail that was released by the nsa, snowden does ask for clarification on a technical legal issue, and the nsa lawyer answers the question and then please adds, if you would like us to discuss further, please call us. an...

Were doing with other countries. republican leaders have made it clear that they support fast track. and they want the tpp, the transpacific partnership. and if this trade graemtd were to go through, theres no doubt that american jobs would be gone. we would see massive job losses. it would be more jobs overseas. you cant deny that. its happened in the past. dang wroerous working condition will arise and it has democrats and congress talking about it. a couple nights ago i said nobody in washing...

Somebody had to blow the whistle because our privacy, all americans, being vit lated, that people are being targeted -- >> they are not being targeted. the collection of so-called metadata, which is just numbers on a sheet of paper, is quite vast and congress is acting now to move it out of the government -- >> and two panels have said its illegal. >> theyve said that the legal basis -- i know of one panel, but i was involved in congress in august of these debates. we both were, and fisa, the fo...

It continues a remarkable pattern of behavior by him. pick a scandal, any scandal. the president says hes going to get to the bottom of it, but he never does. vows to hold agents at the irs accountable for targeting conservatives but hasnt. promises people they can keep their doctor, even though many cant. vows to correct that, even though many still cant. 30 million still wont have insurance. claims it will be all be worth it because health care willi improve, it has not: the warning to a russi...

It. if they will take a hero and throw the poor guy on the trash heap, what will they do an average person. >> doug, last thoughts. >> pat and john are right. it isnt the director, but he is the symbol of the inefficiency and abuses and top-to-bottom review needs to be done otherwise the democrats will pay an even bigger price than they are likely to pay at the polls in november. mark my words. >> all right. i fibbed. you dont get the last word. our viewers do. timeout says the veterans deserve ...

Minority lead canner nancy pelosi explained why. listen to this. >> regretingtablregrettably, th approach does not prevent the unacceptable and repeated abuses committed by chairman issa in any meaningful way. that is all the more reason for democrats to participate in the committee. and so the process appeared to be fair, more transparent and the rest, there would be more trust in it. but since it wasnt, we need to be at the table. >> now, that took some time to get to the point of deciding to ...

Changes. it goes beyond. senator sanders doesnt like this bill. he cant find time in his schedule to read two and a half pages but it goes beyond that, mark, because we out laid with chairman miller for years, for years they refused to take this seriously and its not just president obama but the past six years have been on his watch. >> no, thats absolutely true. for senator -- congressman miller is a key solution, which is giving the cabinet secretary the power to fire incompetent workers respo...

For the boycott strategy over the elijah cumming strategy. and while that debate played out inside the democratic party, the democrats have also been negotiating with house speaker john boehner about what the committees going to be like and how its going to function. today nancy pelosi announced that those talks with the speaker were over and that democrats had made a decision about what to do. and i have to say, i did not see this coming. not like this. >> over the past two weeks, we have engag...

Happened on that horrible night and what the administration did before that in reaction to calls for more security. what happened during that night and what happened afterwards in regard to the video. welcome, everybody. a brand-new our at "americas newsroom." bill: they were considering a flat out full boycott by democrats. however she bowed against pressure for the full slate of five democrats saying it was necessary to keep republicans in check. >> regrettably republican approach does not acc...