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Its all horrible but i dont understand why that -- why was that red line drawn. you know. >> yeah. you know, i think its just because we -- the international community such as it is has decided thats a line that shouldnt be crossed and -- >> okay. >> i can understand the logic behind that even though the math clearly doesnt work out. but why do this? i mean, is this going to help the syrian people? >> well talk about this more coming up. to other news now, the head of the nsa is set to testify o...

>> what i can be say unequivocally is that if you are a u.s. person, the nsa cannot listen to your telephone calls and the nsa cannot target your e-mails. >> and have not. >> and have not. they cannot and have not by law and by rule unless they, and usually it wouldnt be they, it would be the fbi, go to a urt coulden an obtain a warrant. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was direct and that was president obama on charlie rose last night defending the governments use of sweeping surveillance te...

Programs. >> what this program allows us to do, the reason it was set up and the way it has been operated, was when we went to car acho and captured khalid sheikh mohammed, we could see who he was talking to in the united states. he says ask yourself if it was worth it. bathtub falls and police officers kill more americans than terrorism, yet weve been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it. >> i think he is a traitor, somebody with access to classified inform...

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Many people were hoping president obama perhaps alone would be able to resolve. >> peter, your german is impeccable, congrats. >> reporter: thank you. >> thanks for your time. as we mentioned, the presidents approval rating abroad and here at home is being hit by the no longer secret surveillance programs. the nation is split on the program as a means to fight terrorism. 54% assume that the government has already collected data about their own personal communications. president obama tried to se...