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I remember we would go to the floor. if -- a revolution with steve kornacki, go to the floor and we would get up there and we would -- we wanted to balance the budget. fist, stealing from our children and grandchildren, if we pass this bill -- the end of america -- just kept doing it and finally after about a month or two, i -- i walked on to the floor. somebody was screaming up front about, you know, the world was going to come to an end if we passed the $234 million appropriations amendment an...

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I understand the fight over a funding amendment including i think the congressman sort of acknowledged theres not much you can do. how do you change this to restore the trust to the american people? >> well, you know, chuck, 9/11 change things but what 9/11 didnt change is the constitution. if we had this program in effect before 9/11, theres a good chance we would have picked up conversations about the planning and developing of plans for 9/11. so what we tried to make sure of in the developing...

Now to the fight over the secret surveillance by the nsa. a new poll shows the public growing more weary that the government could go too far in its surveillance programs and violate privacy rights. for the first time now, a majority, 56%, now say they are worried the u.s. monitoring programs will go too far. its the first time its gotten over 50%. that sentiment reflected last night on the floor when a polarized vote brought together a strange coalition of the very liberal and very conservative...

Putin very glad to have a pawn in his chess game. joining me democratic congressman from colorado who was one of five bipartisan co-sponsors of the amendment. thanks for coming on this morning. i want to start with the bill itself. was there -- as i know the nsa was lobbying personally. keith alexander was on the floor. you had the national director of intelligence lobbying members of congress to defeat this amendment. did any of the case that they were making resonate with you at all? >> well, ...

Should be about people who are targets of investigation. why are we stockpiling at the nsa your calls, my calls, everybody elses information? it should be actual subjects of terrorist investigations. >> is there any middle ground for you on this? things got heated on the the floor in this back and forth. the nsa will argue they need this database it having that database speeds up when there is a target. is there a way of publicly assuring they dont look at the database that would make you more c...

Nsa would have a fisa court order, they could get the information quickly. we want to connect the dots between terrorist suspects. but theres no reason in the world that should pull in every americans private information. >> you came seven votes short. seems to me it isnt going to take much for you guys to tweak this amendment and get it to pass the house. what would be the tweak that you think youre going to do? is it what you just said, maybe creating a part of this amendment to force the phon...