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Look, the government has lots of oceans of data. the government 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 ab...

Administration is more transparent about this effort than we were in the bush administration. i mean, they made this meta data collection activity available to all the members of congress, not just the members of the intelligence committee. >> all the members of congress, not just the members of the intelligence committee but now that these leaks have happened and this debate happened in the public, does the president have to communicate more with the people. does it have to do more or is it too...

Intent of the law. >> in a bipartisan majority in both houses of congress apparently disagree with richard. because they have authorized this program and continued to authorize this program. and frankly, the obama administration was more transparent about this effort than we were in the bush administration. i mean, they made this meta data collection activity available to all the members of congress. not just all the members of the intelligence committees. >> last question for you, as a former b...

Marathon, they were filming everybody there. but they certainly help pinpoint the two suspects who were eventually identified thanks to those cameras. i guess the argument ari is making is what the nsa is now doing with this metadata collection. they are going through a lot of stuff. they might be able to pinpoint some of that stuff and prevent another 911. a lot of folks say, you know what, if they can do that, fine. >> first of all, again, we have no evidence that that, in fact, is the case or...

Government. whats happening now, were talking about whether or not to turn over user information, whether to unlock encryption. thats a very different ask, and they dont want to do it. >> actually were talking about other things, chris. this is why its helpful that i understand technology. hillary clinton tried to issue the same line last night and then had to quickly say i dont understand much about technology, because she doesnt. let me give you an example of what im talking about. when we mis...

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