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On you. >> look what the justice department did to ted stevens. >> ted stevens is the perfect example. ted stevens had to die for people to go back to, oh, wait a second, we were overzealous. i will give eric holder credit on this. he went back and some of the excesses and some of the abuses of the bush justice department, some of the overreaching, he took care of some of them. and some of my friends were told, hey, were sorry. we apologize. move on. in this case with bob mcdonnell, this -- they...

System. in fact, the u.s. supreme court said last year in a case that its constitutional. >> well, apparently the secretary of state, if the reports from his traveling plane -- hes coming back from asia. if those reports are correct, then hes apologizing. so i guess they are trying to smooth that one over. also wanted to record keep on jay carney announcing that this task force on the nsa and potential abuses has issued its report to the white house. we knew it turned it in on friday. its going ...

Some kind of probable cause. but i think the collection of massive amounts of megadata is here to stay, the question is can there be some kind of safeguards set up that abuses dont happen in the future. >> and who sets that up and monitors them, steve? >> that is the big question. that is what part of this report tried to do, is strike the balance. in the quote that you read from the top of the report, the question is not whether granting this government authority makes us safer, but whether it ...

Have sacrificed the most, to take it from their backs to pay for this budget agreement. >> reporter: democrat armed service chairman said he plans to look into why those retirees were signaled out. and republicans are signaling for a fight early on. >> every time the president asked us to raise the debt ceiling is a good time to achieve something important for the country and as you all know, many significant pieces of legislation have been attached to debt ceilings over the years. >> reporter: ...

So much attention. the irs abuses and the nsa controversy. it has been a horrible year for obama and the white house. i think it has short-term and long-term implications. martha: obviously this doesnt go unnoticed in the white house. it begs the question, does anything change as a result? >> there is no question they will try to change it. but i think its unlikely to have much of a significant impact on the substance. i think this president has been neutered in his presidency with some 3 years ...

When it broke that the nsa is keeping phone records. they are only doing their job and i will not believe the critics who say it is an abusive power. but after seeing the breadth and scope of what the nsa is collecting and only the fact that i called you and you called bill. in the future, are they collecting our content? with the abuses of government irs going after conservative groups and what is to prevent the abuse of power and future leaders decide i want to know what my political oppons ar...

But there were no abuses. >> but there is a fundamental principle thats embedded in our revolutionary finding in the enlightenment, the inalienable rights of each individual for liberty, for privacy, and that the government cant invade my privacy without some reasonable suspicion. ryan wrote a piece in the new yorker about this. heres what he writes. the nsas collecting of data looks a lot like what facebook does, but it is fundamentally different. it in verts the crucial legal principle of prob...

Whether its a proper balance between liberty and security, but there were no abuses. >> but there is a fundamental principle thats embedded in our revolutionary finding in the enlightenment, the inalienable rights of each individual for liberty, for privacy, and that the government cant invade my privacy without some reasonable suspicion. ryan wrote a piece in the new yorker about this. heres what he writes. the nsas collecting of data looks a lot like what facebook does, but it is fundamentally...

This has been a fox news alert. for now, back to "geraldo at large." >> four years since the compassionate medical use act. they dont carry the type of medical marijuana that could be given to children. >> weve taken the steps weve taken. set up a regulatory scheme that makes this a very narp row and medically based program. that will not guilty lead itself to the abuses that wed eve seen particular lil particularly in california and colorado. >> these plants take time to time to grow. >> the la...