the key, the skeleton key, the back door access. i will command you with a judge s authority to give us access to something that is residing within your app, within the server. you give us the app. we don t need the i.p. to encrypt it, you do it for us. here s the command. if you refuse to do it, here s the fine. i think that s a viable option. neil: yeah. ron hosko, good seeing you. thank you very much. meantime, president trump is standing by speaker paul ryan. i want you to meet the republican who is not. i thought i was managing my moderate to severe crohn s disease. i didn t think there was anything else to talk about. but then i realized there was. so, i finally broke the silence with my doctor
that the nsa has been systematically lying to congress. they ve been deceiving the american people, they re building this worldwide spying apparatus, he felt the need to do that outweighed his own personal self-interest. that said, he also knows that the u.s. government is the most powerful entity on earth, that it considers him to be the number one most wanted individual. they intend to, if they get their hands on him, basically destroy his life. and although i haven t discussed specifically with him what his plans are, he knows he is holding some cards given that he had access to top secret information on the part of the most secretive agency in the world and intends to figure out how best he can protect himself. that s my guess as to what he s doing. in terms of the revelations that we ve gotten so far, and they fall into a number of different categories, i do want to ask you, before i let you go, there s been some push back on the reporting, particularly about the prism program,
government has in terms of what the nsa claims and what the technology company has claimed. what is definitely true, and follow-up reporting by the times has proven this, is there have been all kinds of back door negotiations about back door access. they have agreements to share data with the government. i don t think anybody knows at this point exactly what the nature of those arrangements are. and the reason we published our story and the reason we presented it as this discrepancy is precisely because whatever the tech companies and the government are doing in terms of turning over data to the government should be done in public. we should know what agreements they ve reached. we should know what the government has asked for and what they re negotiating with now in terms of access. what we do know for sure is that the government has a program that targets the communication over these companies, that huge numbers of people around the world used to communicate with one another. and w
prominently that they denied it. our story is that there is a discrepancy between the relationship, the private sector and the government has in terms of what the nsa claims and what the technology company claims. what is definitely true. and follow-up by the times has proven this, there have been all kinds of negotiations about back door access. they have agreements to share data with the government. i don t think anybody knows at this point what the nature of the arrangements are. the reason we published our story and presented it as this discrepancy is because whatever the tech companies and companies are doing, should be done in public. we should know what agreements they ve reached. we should know what the government has asked for and what they re negotiating with now in terms of access. what we do know for sure, is that the government has a program that targets the communication over these companies, huge numbers of people around the world used to communicate with one another. we
the nsa is said to have tapped into the servers of nine of the biggest companies. still the heads of two of those companies have put up a rather curious but united front by issuing nearly identical and very carefully parsed, measured statements denying any knowledge of nsa s prism program. mark zuckerberg said facebook has never been part of any program to give the u.s. or any government direct access to our servers. we haven t even heard of prism before yesterday. while goolg s larry page claimed we have not joined any program that would give the u.s. government or any other government direct access to our servers. we have not heard of a program called prism until yesterday. and now in what appears to be an attempt to show it has nothing to hide, google has sent a letter to the justice department requesting permission to publicly disclose how many foreign intelligence surveillance requests it gets. these tech companies, the ones implicated in the prism monitoring program, track peop