but the truth of the matter is, if we re monitoring the cell phone of an ally like germany, right, angela merkle, the president should know, shouldn t he? erin, there are thousands of intelligence data developed every day. it s absolutely impossible to know every detail in them. when it comes to this, and you look at it, you say 20/20 hindsight. if there s something critical in that information the president should know about it. if it s collection information there s no possible way he or anybody else could know what facts are collected every day. which is interesting and i think it s significant. you re a republican senator sort of defending the idea he might not have known. look, spying on the world leader of another major country is just a policy the president should have been aware of. but let me ask you about this, sir. because some folks on both sides of the aisle are defending what the nsa are doing and they re defending it point blank. and one of them might surprise
it s done by everybody. i want to get to that in a few moments. first to follow up on this point about what the president knew and when he knew it let s just say he didn t know the specifics. shouldn t he have? i mean, you may be right. everybody s going to monitor whatever they can monitor. but the truth of the matter is, if we re monitoring the cell phone of an ally like germany, right, angela merkle, the president should know, shouldn t he? erin, there are thousands of intelligence data developed every day. it s absolutely impossible to know every detail in them. when it comes to this, and you look at it, you say 20/20 hindsight. if there s something critical in that information the president should know about it. if it s collection information there s no possible way he or anybody else could know what facts are collected every day.
is ubiquitous. used by everybody. first to follow up on this point about what the president knew and when he knew it let s just say he didn t know the specifics. shouldn t he have? i mean, you may be right. everybody s going to monitor whatever they can monitor. but the truth of the matter is, if we re monitoring the cell phone of an ally like germany, right, angela merkle, the president should know, shouldn t he? erin, thayere are thousands intelligence data developeda a y every day. when you look at them, you say hindsight is 20/20. if there s something critical in that information the president should know about it. if it s collection information there s no possible way he or anybody else could know what facts are collected every day. you re a republican senator
us. and this way we still have room in the budget for me to go out tonight. you watch, it will show up as catering. she just found out right now. yes. it s no problem and by the way, her number is come on. i m only kidding. 212. we ll check back in with you in a moment. so here are the headlines and brand new video into fox & friends , iran calling this a successful launch of a domestically built satellite into orbit. there are concerns about iran s space program, of course, because the same technology that launches satellites can also be used to fire warheads. iran claims that the satellite is only meant to collection information on the weather. it s the third satellite that the country has launched in recent years. defense secretary leon panetta meeting with nato officials in belgium at this hour. he s refusing to comment on reports that he is concerned israel is on the verge of att k attackiattac attacking iran because of its nuclear program. panetta quoted as sayin
gone. you re the chairman of the house intelligence committee. you oversee the cia. what is the cia s role in all of this? well, i can t talk about classified materials or operations they may 0 or may not be engaged in. one of the things the fbi does and has legal authority to do is collect information so that policymakers like congress or the president or even the military can make good decisions. excuse me for a second. you re saying the fbi or cia. i m sorry, cia. you said fbi. i want to be precise. that s that old freudian slip as an old fbi guy. we kind of do everything. go ahead, make your point. the cia, we would expect to go to places and even difficult places and hard places to collection information so we have good assessments about who these folks are, who s winning, what tribe is in, what tribe is out. all of that is valuable information to us and you might