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Table. do you have a metadata program that cost $2 trillion? >> is the show over? what have i gotten wrong, sir? >> maybe i have to bow to your long years and in understanding the importance of secrets. >> you actually dont know what i know. >> level head, level head. >> i dont even know where to start. i am not going to go down that path. as i always say, it is not good to get a motive about these things. you are right and it is -- god bless these discussions. i dont buy the crap about how, he ...

Expressed concern that a quote, very dysfunctional congress wont be able to pass some of the nsa reforms. what are your biggest concerns? >> well, particularly on the metadata program, that has been very controversial. i would like to see the administration do as much as it can without waiting for the congress. but we do have an end date. the program will expire of its own terms in the middle of next year so if congress cant rise to the occasion to legislate here, that program will go away compl...

Political fashion. hes a prisoner of his own ideology. he has to satisfy the left part of his base. i think well see restrictions on the metadata program. he has to restrict nsa you are virallans overseas. i think its the president who doesnt fully understand what nsa can do responding to political pressure at home primarily. bill: does that make america less safe in your view? >> this debate is asymmetric. they characterize what nsa does inaccurately. nsa and the intelligence community as a who...

Abc news consultant richard clark helps write that report. we think the so-called metadata program has not contributed significantly to the prevention of terrorist attacks in the united states or abroad. >> also among the reports, 46 recommendations for greater scrutiny and decisions on the spying on foreign leaders. president obama is expected to announce any changes to the u.s. intelligence program in the next month. millions of target shoppers who used their debit or credit cards in the s...

People to leave classified information. his attorney reported he has been hiding out in russia since june. what more did we learn from the judges decision today? >> the suit was brought a week after the first nsa documents were leaked in june about the collection of americans phone records and the judge issuing the opinion, fining the controversial nsa program answer to be in conflict with the fourth amendment, and the key paragraph reads in part, quote, plaintiffs have a very significant expect...

Do you think? >> you know, we had this happen before, several months ago on the metadata program, it became aware of that. i wrote a letter to the president and asked for an explanation and a hearing. that day, thankfully, they did that, and many senators gathered in a room to listen. that same day, details came out about the prison program. >> i have a lot of concerns, but at a minimum, i think we should, as soon as we get back from recess, we should have a briefing that is detailed that explai...

Unless im proved wrong later, that that program which collects vast amounts of domestic data, domestic telephony data, that contributed to this particular plot. i think with respect to any of the nsa programs, we need to ask ourselves three questions, whether its constitutional, whether its effective, and whether its structured in a way that minimizes any unnecessary imposition on our privacy. if you look at that third criteria, i dont think the metadata program can survive in its current form. ...

President putin. frankly i dont think president obama should go. maybe just betrays my own personal background, chris, but i think its a jump ball whether he should go to saint petersburg for the g-20 at all. >> youve been on the fringes of it. lets get directly into this question of the nsa, what its doing, whether should be new limits. general, the house almost passed, as you well know last week, a measure offered by congressman amash, that would have put an end to the kind of blanket collecti...

President putin. frankly i n go. maybe just betrays my own personal background, chris, but i think its a jump ball whether he should go to saint petersburg for the g-20 at all. >> youve been on the fringes of it. lets get directly into this question of the nsa, what its doing, whether should be new limits. general, the house almost passed, as you well know last week, a measure offered by congressman amash, that would have put an end to the kind of blanket collection of phone records of all ameri...

Mass routine location tracking warrantlessly. thats a threat to privacy, civil liberties and the character of our society. what were saying, were not asking law enforcement to throw technologies out. we understand they are useful. we think there should be a retention period of this data of days or weeks and not months or years. you gave a couple examples. in maryland their license plate leaders, housed at the fusion center, spy center, captured 89 million plates in one year, over 99% of which ar...