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Being investigated as a hate crime. in fact one of the most recent ones was a predominantly white church in tallahassee. that was a lightning strike. there are dozens of churches being struck. anybody committing arson should be prosecuted and punished for it. anybody with racist motivation should be investigated for using that motivation to go out and burn down churches. but for media to have all of this the ones that you were mentioning all of these black churches getting burned down is hyperbo...

Number of clinics in texas, take it down to about eight or nine. >> and burt i want to also turn. we have so much to talk about, to lethal injection. justice sotomayor in dissent today, saying under the courts rule it wouldnt matter whether the state intended to use this controversial drug or have petitioners drawn and quartered, slowly tortured to death or actually burned at the steak. >> i would take the burned at the stake case for a contingent fee. i would win that case. >> what do you mean ...

Senator from south carolina. finally, terror abroad and concerns at home. how serious is the threat to us? im chuck todd and joining me for insight and analysis this sunday morning are former republican house speaker newt gingrich, michael eric dyson of georgetown university. kathleen parker of "the washington post," and charles ogletree. welcome to sunday, its "meet the press." >> announcer: this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good morning. perhaps it was a bit of hyperbole but one...

What this means for now. but i was just handed a statement. we cant talk about all this without talking about senator rand paul and the victory, albeit brief, right, with president obama and senators including many of whom in his own party. so he was essentially saying -- this is the quote thats been everywhere. people here in town think im making a huge mistake. some of them i think, secretly want there to be an attack on the u.s. so they can blame it on me. heres what we now have. apparently h...

Intelligent debate and hyperbole gets the better of us. >> joining me now is oregons democratic senator member of the senate intelligence community ron wyden. thanks for joining me. is the u.s. freedom act going to pass? >> yes. and the bottom line is today. i have been working to close this program for almost a decade. a program that does not make us safer and compromises our liberties is closed as of today. now, i will tell you, a lot of us have been working on this for close to a decade. sena...

We weigh it against the nature of the threat and the nature of the of the government. so this is all okay. were going to lose a few days of information. thats not the end of the world. >> i mean hyperbole on both sides of the issue, juan. both sides concede that. what about what rand paul says between the established republicans and -- >> it was very curious to me because its house republicans. house republicans who are oftentimes more conservative than their senate brother who had pushed this t...

Peoples motives is a mistake and in the heat of battle, high perp high perp hyperbole can get the better of us. >> reporter: either running for president or considering running for president, disagree also and paul takes pride in that. his advisers say thats why hell do well in iowa and new hampshire. i am here in military-rich south carolina it seems the do what you need to do mentality could likely prevail and that of course speaks to its son here, lindsey graham. >> dana bash thank you. on ...

At patriot act to look at his phone records. that is completely untrue. the constitution allows for warrants and we could have gotten a warrant to get the boston bombers records. i want more of that not less. we have to have intelligent debate and sometimes hyperbole gets better of us. bill: are you standing by that or not? rhyme trying to nail that down? >> i think calling it hyperbole, that means i may have exaggerated the case. bill: lets move on now. >> yeah. bill: because senator mccain and...

Act are no longer in effect. joining us now from capitol hill independent senator from maine and member of the intelligence committee angus king, senator, your concern that several parts of this act have expired. >> and i dont think it should be oversold. there has been a lot of hyperbole on both sides. this is not the essence of our national security program, but its an important pat ofrt of the tool kit that will enable for us to determine for example the scenario of the brothers in boston. we...

Fear to try to get us to give up our liberty. this was the whole thing that benjamin franklin debated. whether or not we should trade our liberty for security and sometimes get neither. they say were safer because of this bulk collection of data but it urns out everybody that has objected that looked at it, said no episode of terrorism has been prevented. no case has been cracked and many even in the intelligence committee admit it is very expensive and hasnt provided useful information. bill: w...