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Big personality. i dont think brown is a big figure here. >> richard wolffe, it seems that chris christie may have already tactically decided that the paul family is condemned in republican presidential primaries to getting something like 8% of the delegates at most by kind of hanging in there and never actually winning a state but amassing a few delegates here and there. and chris christie seems to my that rand paul might be useful as someone he can play off of to show himself to be the reasona...

Of the governments assertions that the violations its staff members report are unintentional mistakes. thats prettystriking. >> that is strikin b the central defense that the government has been making for years about these surveillance programs -- in fact, when this program was before the supreme court last year, the government argued, dont let the aclus clients challenge this program because we have a secret court thats doing the job of the courts as a whole. now weve learned that court itself...

Specific version of this in "the washington post" article, which ill read to you. it says, nsa director keith b. alexander has claimed, quote, we dont hold data on u.s. citizens. in the article government officials defended that claim with assertions that the agencys internal definition of data doesnt cover meta data like the not millions or billions but the trillions of american call records that the nsa is now known to have collected and stored since 2006. thats one tangible, you know, recorde...

The irs at some point in the future under the law has to claw that back. >> did you get all your questions answered by werfel today? >> not for a second. >> is it that you didnt have time, or he was dodging? >> the time limitations are fairly strict. youve got five minutes and you have to be very clear and highly coordinated with other members. >> did you walk away thinking the facting chief thought were totally on top of this, the irs will do this, there will be no problems or glitches? >> no. ...

Its really not about the campaign and not about the candidates and this isnt about me. this is about helping new yorkers because they understand this is about them. and this campaign has reminded me of that again and again in all kinds of ways. if someone wants to come out with something embarrassing about you in your private life, youve got to talk about that for a little while. >> anthony weiner, seemingly undaunted by the latest wave of scandal that has washed over his campaign. what could po...

You have said that intelligence officials statements that were not true. with todays declassification by clapper, can you say with any more specificity what wasnt true in the assertions that these officials were making about bulk e-mail data collection? i cant get into the details, but let me be specific. in the document that was declassified today, it talked about how the bulk collection of e-mail was a vital capability. that was the specifics language used by the intelligence community. s...

His defense. what we have is when a white shoots a black, there is a public outcry, and then we get into the race issues, but when a black man shoots a whiteman, theres not the same outcry over the very same law thats being asserted. >> go ahead and respond, reverend. >> you see.law of intercept -- the fact that more plaques are shot, it doesnt really matter. its simply more killings. these stand your ground laws make us less secure. they do not make us more secure, and you have the travesty in ...

False narrative based on untruths and the media ran with it and the media puts them on television and doesnt rebut any of their assertions even when theyre caught in their fabrications. >> so are you and your family -- i sense that youre angry at the media. >> im not angry at the media. i think the media has to do a better job when you have people injecting race into things. a red flag has to go up right away. especially after a case like this where two very crafty attorneys got away with fabric...

Told reuters that venezuela is likely to take snowden. he denied he gave classified information to the governments of china or russia, and denied assertions that one or both governments had succeeded in draining the contents of his laptops, never gave any information to either of the governments and they never took anything from my laptops, he said. glenn greenwald noted that his statement is not dispositive but should be treated as the only actual evidence on this question thus far. joining me ...

Information to the governments of china or russia, and denied assertions that one or both governments had succeeded in draining the contents of his laptops, never gave any information to either of the governments and they never took anything from my laptops, he said. glenn greenwald noted that his statement is not dispositive but should be treated as the only actual evidence on this question thus far. joining me now, the washington editor at large, steve clemons, steve, this poll has edward snow...