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Were classified, this time on the controversial data collection program. and the director of national intelligence james clapper is releasing the documents to give the public more information at this time. >> the economy and the middle-class and the focus of president obamas wokely address today. he said 2014 will be a year of action in immigration reform and unemployment benefits. but republicans say no role actions coming from the white house or democrats in congress. >> so we are primed to br...

Capitol, temperature in d.c. 33 degrees. republican senator rand paul has announced a class action lawsuit aimed at stopping nsa surveillance of cell phone use by americans. he said the goal is to uphold the fourth amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures. he said the data collection program is so widespread and indiscriminate nearly everyone in the country could be affected. >> we now have several hundred thousand people who want to be part of this suit to say to the governm...

Electricity one week after that massive ice storm slammed the midwest. that system also being blamed for problems in the northeast. some 4,000 remain without power in maine. now another blast of winter targeting the area this weekend could cause more outages. and 1.3 million americans receivi receiving unemployment benefits will see them expire today if congress does not act. two judges making conflicting rulings on the legality of the nsas sweeping surveillance practices of snooping on all of...

>> its really hard to say. i think the fact that two judges have come out so differently suggest this is a really different legal issue. it doesnt break down along the traditional/liberal conservative times those of us who follow the supreme court are so familiar with. there are a lot of people on the left and right who are upset about this large data collection program, but it is also true that it is hard to get a government program aimed at protecting national security overturned. national sec...

Website you go to, every e-mail that you send. thats not freedom, that is not what the constitution of the united states is about. so bottom line, yes. i believe we have got to be strong and vigorous in protecting the american people from the very serious threats of terrorism. but i think we can do that without undermining the constitution of the united states. >> senator bernie sanders of vermont. sir, thanks so much, i appreciate you making time for me. our big question to you today, is edwa...

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Might have influence in this conversation later today. heres part of it. n.s.a. might be gathering less intelligence on you. james clapper testifying on the senate judiciary hearing today. the chairman of that committee argues the controversial collection of our phone logs violates our fourth amendment right to privacy but clapper disagrees. >> intelligence community exists to collect the vital intelligence that helps protect our nation from foreign threats. what we do not do is spy unlawfully o...

Havent studied it enough to spend the time on it to come back with an intelligence answer so i will not respond. >> a note to republican congressman ted yoho. you can go on whitehouse.gov right now and see the presidents birth certificate. it is one page long, and it lists the date, time and location of his birth. which took place in the united states of america. until then, congressman, we await your intelligent answer. after the break, the nra joins the aclu in a lawsuit against the nsas pho...

Democratic congresswoman jane harmon, a leading voice on intelligence and national security issues and is now head of the woodrow wilson center here in washington. congressman, let me start with you. why do you hate this nsa surveillance program? to be clear, the program were talking about is not the program that was revealed today. the program that my amendment dealt with was the collection of telephone records. and what the government was doing through the nsa was collecting the phone records ...

Were not going to look at them. we just want to have copies of them in case we need them in the future. thats a violation of the fourth amendment. >> this program is clearly constitutional, it just doesnt work that way. with respect, thats way to scare people. thats not how it works and the amount of meta data that can be collected is reviewed every 90 days by the federal court. the provisions by which all this happens, enacted by congress. i know you opposed them all, but i think they were resp...