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There are legal limits what they can do when it involves a u.s. person, although lots of u.s. persons in these databases but no technical, rebust auditing process and there is all kinds of evidence emerging because of abuse. there is lots of proof in history if you allow this surveillance without limits, it will be wildly abused and i think thats why even in washington these stories are making such an impact. >> glen, stay with me. i want to bring in james risen, a prize winning journalist for "...

James risen case and janets this is probably biggest story on of the year. >> rick: more on that story, but also this week, new york city mayoral candidate anthony weiner resigned from congress in 2011 after a sexting scandal admitted tuesday that his online exploits didnt stop. here is how the papers covered the story. carlos danger, referring to his online name and beat in it the daily news, monica, not talking about the stories but the coverage of the story and were here in the new york media...

I took it to the president and he signed off on it on strict limitations to what we could do. these men are as fine officers as youll find in the united states military. i met a lot of them over the years. i trust these guys with my life. >> so what do you make of -- >> what i make of what theyre saying is they are to be believed. theyre good, honest americans. theyre patriotic but they also care about. >> reporter: what do you make of the president suggesting i had to scrub up what these guys l...

Communications. james, five inspectors general looked at the program i governed and which you wrote about, and in a public report said there were no abuses. controversial program, but no abuses. >> but general, snowden got into things you had no idea he was getting into. >> i understand -- >> how do you know hes wrong? >> one more point. congressman, its only terrorism. the only way you can access the meta data is through a terrorist predicate. >> where is that written? >> its in the court order...

Security journalist for "the new york times," author of "state of war: the secret history of the cia and bush administration," james risen. and back again, david ignatius of the "washington post" and our own andrea mitchell. welcome to all of you. general hayden, you have been in the thick of this debate in your past as one of the nations top spies. the politics of this are interesting in terms of where the american people are. and well put some of the polling on the screen. 56% believe that the...

Democratic congressman from virginia, bobby scott, national security journalist for "the new york times," author of "state of war: the secret history of the cia and bush administration," james risen. and back again, david ignatius of the "washington post" and our own andrea mitchell. welcome to all of you. general hayden, you have been in the thick of this debate in your past as one of the nations top spies. the politics of this are interesting in terms of where the american people are. and well...

Chris plante show. it appears, let me start with you on this, chris hahn, the obama camp beliefs the attacks on bain are working. when james risen reached out to them about the fact check.org report that dismisses the obamas, obama campaigns claims as not factual, they pushed back and said, fact check.org got this one wrong. chris hahn, right or wrong, the obama camp thinks it is onto something. >> hey, listen if it works keep doing it. that is the way politics is. bottom line a very complicated...

Blower. they have a number of other investigations going. they subpoenaed a reporter, james risen to go back before a grand jury to talk about an eight-year-old, nine-year-old leak. theyve showed theyre serious and tried to send a message to u.s. officials. sort of fear. put fear into their minds about leaking classified information. what this shows is perhaps theyre not having the kind of effect they would like to have. >> all right. now i agree with both of you guys that more information is go...

So women on submarines, were making this change and making it now. anybody mind? no. good. done. gay people in the military? couldnt possibly. wouldnt want to offend. next up, investigating what could be a crime, known in some circles as journalism. on monday james risen received say subpoena seeking information of his sources in "state of war," an undercover agent and irans nuclear program. this is not the first time james risen has been subpoenaed for his sources and documented on this exact r...

Great strides there, everybody was talking about health care. so they got away with opposing it. heres their argument now. its big government, you cant trust. theres an interesting thing going on here with the republicans. first they ran the government for six years, the president, the house and the senate. they messed things up. in the financial area they didnt regulate, they allowed all these terrible things to happen. now that were trying to fix it they say you cant trust the government. i co...