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Barretts, that would be amazing. >> were not asking for more secret agents, were asking to let the nsa do its job and try to protect us using the tools they have. theres been no abuses so far. >> im glad you protect them and im glad you claim there have been no abuses, why are the vast majority of -- leaving the obama administration in droves? its not necessarily because of health care and the economy. its because of the snowden thing. >> im afraid people think that the nsa is doing things that ...

"nth" degree on every american citizen. one rogue employee, edward snowden, not even an employee. he was a contractor. one of those people get access to individual record and begins to use it, for blackmail or publish it somewhere, that is information nobody should have access to. >> there are no record of abuses of the private citizens having the data collected and having it stored in a facility to access the medadata if they needed to. >> that is nice to say but edward snowden did get informat...

Waste face on your phone. >> what are you expecting from the president of the united states tomorrow. >> i think he is going to say trust me, i have got my pen, im going it fix it the problem is i dont think you can trust the fox to guard the hen house. these abuses and these expansive use of power has happened under his watch and now we are going to trust him to fix the problems. i dont think we can do that i think congress should assert its authority to regulate, oversee and restrain the nsa. ...

Of citizenship in order to vote. it was rejected by the supreme court in june. despite that ruling, the state has kept in place voter restrictions for state and local elections endangering the right to vote for 1400 arizonians. it will give a pass to north carolina. one that includes a strict voter id requirement, one that eliminates same day voter registration, and one that slashes early voting from a week and seven days to ten days. unlike previous laws which had a rear view on our history of ...

Waste face on your phone. >> what are you expecting from the president of the united states tomorrow. >> i think he is going to say trust me, i have got my pen, im going it fix it the problem is i dont think you can trust the fox to guard the hen house. these abuses and these expansive use of power has happened under his watch and now we are going to trust him to fix the problems. i dont think we can do that i think congress should assert its authority to regulate, oversee and restrain the nsa. ...

Did so with respect under president bush, and i believe also with respect to president obama, we do so in a way that is consistent with the constitution, consistent with our values. that is a charge that began with president bush, continuing with president obama, to do what we can to protect this country in a way that is constitutional. jon: he seems to have said that the program that he inherited from the bush administration essentially is going to remain in place but he will change the way the...

Metadata collection. you say there needs to be, if you will, checks and balances in place to make sure it never happens. >> how do we know there havent been abuses? as a matter of fact, you know, people can take advantage, they can run data, do all kinds of things theyre not supposed to do. and if there are not good controls on it, what we end up having is a loose situation where not only do we lose privacy. we may also lose security. so its important that we dig in hard and really review the pr...

Democratic future for egypt? what lies ahead in the next year or next two years? >> theres absolutely no denying there have been horrible, brutal crackdowns and abuses of human rights. a couple of my friends have been jailed. people are still on the ground fighting every day, though. theyre not giving up. this is why it is so important to release a film like this now when it actually had the opportunity to change the conversation, to look back over the last three years, and to also look at two p...

Earlier, he doesnt have clearances to see most of this material the problem in our society, there are very few people not collecting this data, analyzing it, who are able to assess its quality and the probable abuses of its use. thats the problem and the president told us hes going to nom nature a couple of people, one in the state department, one whos going to work with podesta in the white house but doesnt tell us whether these people will interact with the public, whether the public debate wi...

Which has the important and useful effect of creating a deterrent against future voting rights allegations. so for a congress that has trouble keeping the government open, even modest progress on voting rights is pretty extraordinary. now they just have to pass it. joining me now is contributing writer for the nation, ari. talk to me about your feelings on this bill. does it go far enough and how much of a deterrent do you think this 15-year cycle will be? >> thanks for having me. i feel like ex...