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The things he claimed he was able to do in terms of tapping communications. five inspectors general looked at the program which you wrote about, and in a public report said there were no abuses. controversial program but no abuses. >> but snowden got into things you didnt know about. >> one more point, though. congressman, its only terrorism. the only way you can access the meta data is through a terrorist predicate. >> where is that written? >> its in the court order. its in the broad structure...

solely benefits the intern. it cant provide an advantage to the company. so if a company wants to continue to have -- >> so if you ever have the thought, youre like oh my god, thank god i can make my unpaid intern do this thing, thats an alarm bell. >> right. >> right? no, im serious, that this has not been structured were their benefit. >> exactly. when you start to have an inkling that you want to send them to go get coffee, that means, you know, the dollar sign should pop up in your head a...

Jury, hire you to defend them. whatever it takes. lets see what it is. i think this snowden is a left wing guy as you said he is now telling the chinese the u.s. government is hacking him or whatever and thats not never a good sign. >> totally different situation from revealing. >> thats right. >> alleged abuses of the nsa. >> we will be fair on this coverage. counselor, thanks very much. directly ahead. chris matthews calling me a fascist or something. why is he doing that? well tell you after ...

Jury, hire you to defend them. whatever it takes. lets see what it is. i think this snowden is a left wing guy as you said he is now telling the chinese the u.s. government is hacking him or whatever and thats not never a good sign. >> totally different situation from revealing. >> thats right. >> alleged abuses of the nsa. >> we will be fair on this coverage. counselor, thanks very much. directly ahead. chris matthews calling me a fascist or something. why is he doing that? well tell you after ...

He thinks this program is worth pursuing. >> i think most of the american people, given this new threat environment after 9/11 where we have terrorists actually targeting civilians, as we saw on september 11th and so many other terror attacks most americans would say okay to a program like this. jon if they felt it was being run competently and efficiently and not being abused. we are having this conversation now in the context of severe abuses of power by other branches of this government namel...

Jury, hire you to defend them. whatever it takes. lets see what it is. i think this snowden is a left wing guy as you said he is now telling the chinese the u.s. government is hacking him or whatever and thats not never a good sign. >> totally different situation from revealing. >> thats right. >> alleged abuses of the nsa. >> we will be fair on this coverage. counselor, thanks very much. directly ahead. chris matthews calling me a fascist or something. why is he doing that? well tell you after ...

Search warrants based on anonymous tips and helicopter surveillance of homes without a warrant. big brother has been alive and well in the drug war for decades, a war where -- a world where as the wire creator david simon blog this had week the government has used court orders to cull numbers from thousands of calls from certain pay phones monitoring every single number dialed. sounds a little like what the nsa is doing. now along with a drug exception to the bill of rights, we have a terror exc...

The cases where this has stopped the terrorist attack, both here and in other places. and he wants to be exact about the details. so we should have that monday. >> and a piece published in "the week" today, president obama is not violating his liberal principles by defending the nsa, he is exercising them. joining me now, big scher, bill, make your case about how this is part of president obamas liberal approach to government. >> well, liberals are not libertarians, they believe in the use of go...

Japanese camps, witch hunts, strongest critics of this nsa program dont cite any actual abuses of that nature. we have a ten-year record of this now and we havent seen that kind of terrible violation. what we have is a system designed to pinpoint actual terrorists. and that kind of circumstance is actually protecting our civil liberties and protecting our innocence and serving the common good. this is a far better record in protecting the innocents than weve seen, president obama is exercising h...

Joining me now, bill scher, bill, make your case about how this is part of president obamas liberal approach to government. >> well, liberals are not libertarians, they believe in the use of government power to maximize the common good. and that includes public safety. what liberals have long opposed is abuses of political power that infringe on freedom and dont make us safe. japanese camps, witch hunts, strongest critics of this nsa program dont cite any actual abuses of that nature. we have a ...