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Its pretty staffed in favor of people who support these programs with the exception of a few people like senator widen and others. >> appreciate your time. thank you. thanks so much. lets dig deeper with edward snowdens father and bruce. good to have you on the program. lawn, what is your reaction to this newly published information that your son gave them, there is a program that allows the nsa to access anything a typical user does on the internet? >> i find it shocking. its a matter of mo...

Im not condoning the breaking of a law, but is the system unfair here? >> the system is unfair. we need a better way for those that want to blow the whistle on the government to do so. there is talk that edward snowden could go to, for example, a member of congress and tell them about the program, that it wasnt being applied in what he thought was a constitutional manner. thats not true. edward snowden couldnt come to me or most members of congress and talk about it. he had to go to superiors an...

Lets dig deeper with sunny hostin, jeff toobin. suny, lets start with you. her on the stand, especially the defense spending a lot of time on race, how do you think that played out? >> it was hard to tell from the courtroom. it didnt seem to advance the ball much for the defense. they made much to do about the comment that trayvon martin said to rachel. he also described george zimmerman with the "n" word. certainly, he described him in two ways, with a derogatory white term and derogatory black...

>> reporter: turley says thats the way the court is supposed to work. did the court work this week? >> i think it worked exactly the way the framers wanted it to work. the framers wanted the president to renew the court with new appointees, with new voices and expected the court would shift with the attitudes and values of society. it has. >> indeed it did. now affirmative action, prayer and public spaces and presidential appointment powers are all expected to come up in the next term of the sup...

Prosecutors want to put expert testimony on to say they cant conclusively say, they say based on the science it is trayvon martin. defense put on a really renowned expert saying there is no credibility in these experts and the voice at all. the voice is so far away. the instruments and speck tro graph they are using is outdated. there is no way to tell with any kind of scientific certainty. >> trayvons mother said she was sure it was her sons voice. jean, we appreciate the update. lets dig deepe...

Giving very few details. >> a.p. has an idea what they were seeking? >> thats right. government officials have said in public testimony they are conducting a criminal investigation into who may have leaked information obtained by a.p. or in an a.p. story from about a year ago this month. this was about a foiled terror plot. the story disclosed details of a cia operation in yemen that stopped an al qaeda plot to bomb an airplane and the a.p. says that is the reason -- they are hinting they believ...

>> well see who represents him in that as well in federal court. thank you very much, joe johns. lets dig deeper with senator ron wyden of oregon. hes a member of the intelligence committee. your immediate reaction that we learned to the news today. you may have learned about it longer than we did. what do you think of the decision to bring him to new york? >> wolf, first of all, you cant as a member of the intelligence committee get into any details with respect to a particular case. but i thin...

>> over population is not a problem? >> absolutely not. >> related to that, i am told we are running out of fuel. i have been told that for years. jimmy cartener 1977 said, we are now running out of gas and oil. what happens in the next decade -- thats more than 30 years ago. >> right. but if we are running out of oil that, implies that prices should be rising. but the federal most part -- for the most part, oil has been getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. and even as it does start to get m...

Urban areas means more conversations. >> over population is not a problem? >> absolutely not. >> related to that, i am told we are running out of fuel. i have been told that for years. jimmy cartener 1977 said, we are now running out of gas and oil. what happens in the next decade -- thats more than 30 years ago. >> right. but if we are running out of oil that, implies that prices should be rising. but the federal most part -- for the most part, oil has been getting cheaper and cheaper and cheap...

Urban areas means more conversations. >> over population is not a problem? >> absolutely not. >> related to that, i am told we are running out of fuel. i have been told that for years. jimmy cartener 1977 said, we are now running out of gas and oil. what happens in the next decade -- thats more than 30 years ago. >> right. but if we are running out of oil that, implies that prices should be rising. but the federal most part -- for the most part, oil has been getting cheaper and cheaper and cheap...