finally be the year he finishes the championship. shane donahue is live near philly with more. shane, do people think he can actually pull it off this time? is reporter: i certainly think so. i go back quite a way with phil, to be honest. i ve interviewed him many times in different roles, and i went up to him on monday night, we were at a dinner, and i relayed a story, which was very personal to me, because my son is 4 today. it s father s day. obviously, he s 43 today. it s father s day. i was just saying to him, you know, i really think, phil, you ll be signing the winner s flag for my son as the perfect present because i ve been away over here in the states for a couple of weeks. and he said, i will sign it. i m playing great, and i feel very good. and i said, look, i know that, phil. so i wish you the very best of luck. and we ve kind of interacted a couple of times this week, and i did an interview with him for cnn on saturday night. you know, i ve never seen anyone
being useful. the government has been very eager to talk about how this program has helped stop terrorist attacks. let s listen to what nsa director general keith alexander had to say in testimony on capitol hill last week. he s talking about this section of the patriot act that allows this data to be collected. let s listen to the exchange between him and senator patrick leahy from vermont. we collect millions and millions and millions of records through 215, but dozens of them have proved crucial or critical. is that right, dozens? is both here and abroad in disrupting or contributing to the disruption of a terrorist attack. out of those millions, dozens have been critical? that s correct. in a document cnn was able to obtain, a secret, classified
absolutely. more than ever, we will be out there. as i said in my speech, time s a wasting. things are moving really quickly. if we don t get out there, things will move past us. we will do all we can to make a positive difference. nsa leaders are asserting the government s controversial surveillance program has worked. cnn has obtained examples of the thwarted plot. candy crowley, good morning to you. congressional leaders are saying this is the first of many documents to be declassified. senator feinstein said that detailing the incidents would help to prove its effectiveness. what do you think? is this an attempt to be transparent and silence the critics of the program? reporter: i m not sure it s an attempt to be transparent. this was certainly forced on these two programs by the leak. it certainly is an attempt to say, here s why we re doing this.
think the federal government is bringing in too much information that the balance is off. now he s a little freer to speak. he still thinks that the breadth of this is just way too out of balance. senator john mccain and we ll see his exact response here, but by and large as long as they re lawful and as long as the court has okayed some of this, he is gone along with it like a number of republicans that we talked to this week. all right. candy crowley, thank you so much. we appreciate it. and be sure to stay here for state of the union with candy crowley starts 9:00 a.m. eastern, 6:00 a.m. pacific right here on cnn. one mom s fight to save her daughter has turned into a national debate over organ transplant rules. we ll talk with the congressman who s also a surgeon about his involvement in the case and why he s suggesting that one of president obama s cabinet members could be responsible if the young girl dies. [ lane ] do you ever feel like you re growing old
cnn s stephanie elam is in santa monica this morning. stephanie, we now know the gunman s name. have police said anything more about him? well, we have learned, pamela, that there was a connection between john zawahri and santa monica college. he apparently was a student there along with another family member as recently as 2010. before that he was going to a high school here in santa monica that was for people behind on credits. that s the last we know he was there in 2006. we also know in the year in that same year police did have contact with him. what the issue was was harmful words he said about somebody else. words he was going to harm somebody. that led to his hospitalization. we don t know if that s for the family putting him into care or because of officials. but we do know that they had contact. the reason why his name was not released is because he was a juvenile at the time. we can also tell you that when he went on the shooting rampage, it was a day before his 24th bir