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You will with the fbi, federal authorities and state and local officials. a routine regular call but you can assume all of this is going to be a subject of conversation. alisyn. >> absolutely. were going to be talking about it a lot on "new day" as well. barbara, thanks so much for that. also new this morning, a federal appeals court ruling on the side of privacy saying the nsa collection of americans phone records is illegal. pressure now building on congress and president obama to either end...

I think spying on the allied leaders, except for potentially the most extraordinary of situations is not consistent with values and jeopardize those important relationships. >> you said if the committees were informed. youre a member of the committee. hu been informed? >> i had not been informed but that doesnt mean the committee wasnt informed. some issues are briefed to the leadership, briefed to the committee or reported to the committee but may not call attention to themselves. is this somet...

Department. it may be thats postponed. were monitoring the situation carefully to determine if thats the case. i dont think we see an iminnoceimminent attack. >> if we had the kind of intelligence we were collecting through the nsa before september 11, do you think 9/11 would have been prevented? >> i think theres a good chance we could have prevented part of it. i think we would have a much better chance of identifying those individuals. >> by this mass collection of information? >> by the vari...

Oath of office. there is some young that believe he is some kind of jason bourn. we need to ask questions, like why did mr. snowden have access to what he had access to. it couldnt have been his job. what about congressional oversight. have we had a failure there? and clearly, mr. snowden granted asylum in russia is a signal of incredibly bad relations between the united states and russia and mr. putin putting his thumb right in americas eye. >> lets talk about some of the specific reforms that ...

When we know he betrayed his oath of office. there is some young that believe he is some kind of jason bourn. we need to ask questions, like why did mr. snowden have access to what he had access to. it couldnt have been his job. what about congressional oversight. have we had a failure there? and clearly mr. snowden granted asylum in russia is a signal of incredibly bad relations between the united states and russia and mr. putin putting his thumb right in americas eye. >> lets talk about some o...

Well, you know, some of these programs, these collecting of medi-data, collecting of phone calls or phone numbers, it stopped dozens of terrorist attacks. now senator patrick leahy said maybe it was involved in one, but when you look at the details of how these programs were used, it has not stopped nearly the number that some intelligence officials have been claiming. >> yeah, and theyve been -- there are many of them who have been careful to say understand this program and other programs we ha...

Program and other programs we have stopped 54 terrorist attacks. there are some members of congress who have not been very careful and i think have bordered on giving false testimony to the american people, and we should take a close look at that, but yeah, they -- i think those who are careful and cautious about what they say realize that its not this particular collection of phone records, mass collection of phone records that is doing the work here. >> i spoke to glenn greenwald on this progr...

These programs, these collecting of meta data, collecting of phone calls or phone numbers, its stopped dozens of terrorist attacks. now senator patrick lahe said maybe it stopped one when you look at the details, it has not stopped nearly the number some intelligence officials have been claiming. >> yeah, they have been -- there are many of them who have been very careful to say under this program and other programs we have stopped 54 terrorist attacks. there are some members of congress who hav...

Of how the programs was used it has not stopped nearly the number that some intelligence officials have been claiming. >> yeah. there are many of them who have been careful to say under this program and other programs we have stopped 54 terrorist attacks. there are some members who have not been careful and i think have bordered on giving false testimony to the american people, and we should take a close look at that. yeah, i think those who are careful and cautious about what they say realize i...

Surveillance had happened and then the ap decided to make it public. the story about the justice department getting access to the phone records and e-mails of that fox news reporter, that other leak investigation, that one broke at the same time as all those other ones but the timing on the fox reporter story was by accident. the fbi getting into that reporters e-mails and phone calms. was supposed to been made public a year and a half ago but apparently accidentally left sealed in a court filin...