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Homeland security secretary can eliminate or suspend that particular country from the visa waiver program. >> heres the problem is that paris apparently had 57 employees at charles degal errant on the watch list -- airport watch list. they didnt know about it they had all this metadata gathering and they didnt prevent this attack. even if france was the most cooperative as could be, it is still, you know, still a risk for us. >> there is always a risk. there is always a risk. i will tell that yo...

You. >> well, thats probably true. look, i think its important to note that its not just republicans that are having this debate among their party. democrats are too. we saw that most recently over the debate in congress with the patriot act. but, look, i think as technology continues to improve and we also see the footprint of terrorist organizations like isis improve, were going to continue to have this debate, were going to continue to have this conversation. i think theres a balance to strik...

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 ...

Recode pink removed because of disruptions they brought to it. their message was stop spying on us. this is a time when the agencies and spy work highly classified to begin with is under this new level of public scrutiny and diplomatic ramifications with whats happening with our allies. when you have someone like dianne feinstein, one of the most fierce defenders and supporters of the intelligence community, when she has questions or doubts, thats a sign theres a p.r. problem they have to deal w...