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Making it clear he is not ending surveillance programs. he, instead, defended both metadata collection. expand programs while respecting americans society and telling options. he calls for new guidance and reforms to quote balance national security and privacy. >> what i did not do is stop these programs wholesale. not only because i felt that they made us more secure, but also because nothing in that initial review and nothing that i have learned since indicated that our intelligence community ...

Hear that these are real concerns about privacy and about civil liberties. we have edward snowden the whistle blower to thank for that. the thing that was missing -- >> you have been critical of this, i was curious if you feel better. >> look, i think there needs to be acknowledgement that we are having the debate that the president said is valuable because of the whistle blower who brought out the information that prompted the debate. there was also on a policy level, i was troubled by the fact...

Collection was not essential. >> do we want to live in a just in case society where they have everything they want and they can say to the american people that we want to do this just in case. thats really what were talking about. >> reporter: these studies show that traditional intelligence gathering, informants and tips the really do yield the best information. but white house officials will argue the metadata gathering where you have these, for instance, you can see where a call began, where ...

From judge richard leon this month. the court concludes that plaintiffs have challenged the constitutionality of the governments bulk collection of metadata, that they demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of their fourth amendment claim and they will suffer irreparable harm. whats the take-away now that you have these two competing rulings going in completely opposite directions? >> well, yeah, exactly. you have two judges who are of the same rank so basically, the two ...

And my freedoms and my privacy. but also ive got to give a little bit as i understand. i remember the days i used to walk on an airplane without any scrutiny, without any security whatsoever. those days have passed. you know what? i still fly. >> do you think that the program -- the meta data program is getting most, a collection of what appears to be most of if not all of the phone calls made here in the u.s.? and it tells you like where it was placed, who placed it, how long it ran, where the ...

But he is standing by some of the programs because it has protected our security. >> you were nodding. youre here on the set with me so i can see you nodding as we were going through some of this. and we put up what the association press wrote talking about an unusual coalition of conservative republicans and democrats have taken up the issue. so we dont see this bipartisanship. it sounds you have weird bedfello bedfellows. >> this is exactly the thing that brings strange bedfellows together. li...

Little while ago. this independent review of the nsa surveillance program is in, and this review board has come down with new recommendations. thas say this controversial bulk collection, this metadata collection, will remain in place, but theyre recommending tighter constraints, greater transparency from the ns ark. were continuing to follow this story, of course. our national security reporter is sitting in a briefing on this exact story right now, so as soon as we get him out of the meeting, ...

Way the government gets things wrong. why is this the one exception where the think the government will get it all right, not concerned at all about the fourth amendment of our constitution? >> i actually am concerned about the intelligence community, they get a lot of things wrong, and they are all like all bureaucracies, they justify spending ever more money. im worried as a matter of intelligence that we are focusing and depending too much probably on this metadata collection. so im perfectly...

Hamburg, germany, a fact we tend to gloss over. top german officials admitted information from u.s. intelligence has disrupted several terrorist plots inside germany itself. this is a complicated picture. >> were talking about millions of phone calls all in secret without the knowledge of those people in those countries on foreign soil. why is it -- why is it wronging to asking that question of whether or not this is legal or even right to do such a thing? >> well, i think legal is one question....

Look, the government has lots of oceans of data. the govement demands that i tell them every penny i make and how i made it. that also is in one sense an invasion of privacy. but theres a larger national purpose, which that serves. that same applies to this metadata collection. what do we do with the data? what we do, chris, let me give you an example. we roll up a terrorist cell, lets say yemen, which james rosen referred to in his piece, we roll up a terrorist cell there, find a cellphone abou...