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Intelligence programs. im in favor of expanding them. this country cannot afford a president thats not going to reverse the direction barack obama has taken our country. we cant have a president that is for expanding obamacare. these are serious policy disputes and theres nothing in those ads thats inaccurate, its the truth. >> reporter: now that last comment was a reference to the super pac that -- rubios super pac that released two ads cre t criticizing chris christie calling him president oba...

We can defeat them. if we employ the power of the united states in a true coalition with others around the world, we can defeat this group. but it will take a combination of things. it will take a substantial ground force to which the primary bulk of it must be made up of local sunni arabs, but there will be the necessity to significantly increase the number of u.s. special operators embedded alongside them. >> do you have a number? >> i think thats why you ask military officers to design a stra...

Shut down like we saw from the fiscal cliff negotiations more than what was necessary after things were shut down for them to be turned back on again was the flicking of one switch and the turning of the fiscal spigot if you will. the dollar labs keep growing. now you have different intelligence programs. it is not so easy to send the doll laterals flowing you have to get lawyers involved and you will have difficulties getting new programs running to try to monitor these terrorists. >> james ros...

With him? >> i think we need first class intelligence programs, i think thats what we have -- and the national security counsel and the lawyers and the justice department. >> sheryl shelly writes on facebook, had the tactics not been used, what would have happened? what events were prevented? >> if you look at the example cited by the former directors, there was a perspective attack on the west coast, with the hijacked aircraft, that was thwarted by this, there are a number of examples that have...

To the u.s. government. hes cost us tens of billions of dollars to our intelligence programs. this is not a patriot. >> was that irreparable damage that gary is talking about, also known as truth that needed to come out and, if so, how does that change the analysis? >> i think it changes the analysis completely. youre talking about wide spread historic changes that happened. lets not forget that the nsa was breaking the law themselves up to a thousand times a year, that a federal judge said that...

Of his not being afforded legitimate channels due to his status as a contractor. pulling back, 1.1 million u.s. government contractors have some kind of security clearance and access to see kret. are they all fertile ground for these leaks? im joined by william binny, long before edward snowden rocked headlines, and michael lighter, former director of the national intelligence center and can give a different take on this. william, you approve of what edward snowden did, correct by going to the...

Capability, europe, that has been part of the sanctions, especially the strongest sanctions on energy, on gasoline will start investing there. so this probably would be a good sign for iran. now, if iran doesnt come through with these reductions in enriched uranium, continues its nuclear weapons programs, a lot of those investments will dry up. >> lets switch gears. i want to talk you about the presidents nsa reforms. whats your take on them? >> well, i think the president did what he had to do,...

Update. well stay in close contact. dozens of recommendations for sweeping changes to the nsa, but how many if any will the obama administration heed? the uproar over the agencys most controversial surveillance program is heating up with some lawmakers calling for a high-level resignation. jim scuitto is joining us with the latest. jim? >> reporter: the white house says its open to all 46 of these recommendation, but we have an early sense of the ones they are going to accept and not accept. w...

Brazil, john schindler, he actually says to brazil about these nsa programs, "these programs were never about terrorism. they are about economic spying, social control and diplomatic manipulation. they are about power." to say that these programs were never about terrorism is about one of the wildest things snowden has said. >> yeah, it is. and it tells me a lot that the brazilians immediately said, no, thank, were not interested. look, what edward snowden has done is glom together a lot of diff...

Just a quick response from you. are you on board with that? >> i think we should always review our intelligence programs because we have limited resources and they should be geared toward the most useful places. that being said, i do think some outrage by some leaders is designed to appease a domestic audience. the reality is if i travel abroad with my cell phone, i expect and can expect foreign intelligence services will try to monitor them. they do to so create knowledge about the way policy m...