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>> thanks, anderson. >> thank you. lets dig deeper now with jeffrey toobin and jessalyn radek, a former whistleblower who now represents people who do what she once did. jeff, do you believe the british government was justified in detaining him for nine hours? >> i sure do. i dont want to be unkind, but he was a mule. he was given something, he didnt know what it was, from one person to pass to another at the other end of an airport. our prisons are full of drug mules. glenns view is, as long ...

>> im not arguing that. im arguing that under this law, to be held under schedule 7 of this particular law, you have to have a reasonable nexus to terrorism. and here there has been absolutely none asserted unless someone is trying to make the government -- the argument that journalism is the new terrorism. >> what about that, jeff? that is glenn greenwalds contention. >> the world "journal" is not magical immunity sauce that you can put on anything and eliminate any sort of liability. if he had...

>> the word "journalism" is not magical immunity sauce that you can put on anything and eliminate any sort of liability. if he had the nuclear launch codes in there, they can take that. if he had the names of undercover operatives, they can take that. our government and the british government regards the method of surveillance as just as serious a security breach. now, you know, thats the law. and im sorry glenn thinks thats a bad thing but, you know, thats the law. if you go through an airport ...

>> weird, isnt it? love to. how about global thermal nuclear war? >> its a good game of chess? >> later. lets play global thermonuclear war. >> fine. >> all right! >> if theres one lesson that we learned from the 1983 movie "war games" the lesson was never disguise your launch codes as games like chess and checkers where unwitting hackers might bump into them and unwittingly start global nuclear war. we learned that in 1983 and turns out theres a whole amount of mistakes that could happen. l, c-...

Secret missile launch codes. >> these are probably the most sensitive codes in existence. >> reporter: bruce blair is a former nuclear missile launch officer who said the safety breach increases the the risk of an unauthorized launch. >> or it could lead to the arming of a missile that shouldnt be armed in peace time. so these are really serious, serious issues. >> reporter: yeah, but blair says that theres a bit of apathy that is set in. they used to climb down in that bunker knowing that you w...

>> the boot on the throat of b.p. doing all that is necessary. >> yes. betraying britain to appease moscow over the treaty. this is amazing. a major betrayal. give them the launch codes. number three, downgrading the special relationship. barack obama rarely refers to the special relationship we have. he did yesterday. in that book where he got the date wrong. this is what he told nicolas sarkozy. >> we dont have a stronger friend, stronger ally than nicolas sarkozy and the french people. >> gle...

>> the boot on the throat of b.p. doing all that is necessary. >> yes. betraying britain to appease moscow over the treaty. this is amazing. a major betrayal. give them the launch codes. number three, downgrading the special relationship. barack obama rarely refers to the special relationship we have. he did yesterday. in that book where he got the date wrong. this is what he told nicolas sarkozy. >> we dont have a stronger friend, stronger ally than nicolas sarkozy and the french people. >> gle...

>> yes. wasson. >> who is grindel. >> yes. >> its like that. >> absolutely. >> its so impressive. >> it issive. this is also a lot of attention for ibm. they would like it to spread into businesses, perhaps into the medical world and the financial world. but you know, its certainly an impressive display of whats close to what we think is artificial intelligence. you know, but its not quite there yet. i dont think that were ever going to be thinking of watson as holding the launch codes or, you k...

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