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About nada, obama, a president who says next to nothing on these scandals and when he had a chance to show rage with charlie rose revealed less. you think that blase, and people want passion. >> if you get ten letters in the mail and one says irs youre more than likely to open up that letter than any other. >> neil: youre right. >> theres no institution that mains people more afraid than the irs and when they find out its playing politics, boy, does that stick. they assume even if they have not ...

Theres no dots. >> neil: the argue. is they collected way too many damn dots dots dots and went yad the patriot act. you dont buy that. >> not at all. >> what do you think should happen to mr. snowden? >> i think he should be extradited out of china, its an unbelievable coincidence all of this information was revealed just when the president was going to take to task china for their cybersecurity espionage and attack within our governments computer system. so i think that there may have been a l...

Dr. paul and the other gentleman. was the nsa prom good enough we should spined civil liberties in that is the debate we need to have. neil novel its like fortress america down there. and it is really like -- >> very hard to get in. actually hard to get out sometimes. >> neil: if everytime we follow up a threat, they beef it up even more. >> were talking about the nsa program in particular whether that is a step too far. i dont know how you just about the nsa program, particularly on this, becau...

Would have said general, answer the question. question, does the nsa have the ability to listen to phone calls. answer, it is not in our authority. of course he doesnt have the legal authority to answer the phone calls. thats not the question asked. the question asked does he have the practical ability to do so and he couldnt answer that because the answer is yes, and the president and general alexander are both saying trust us. the same administration that said trust us on benghazi until we cha...

Anywhere, theyre point collectively to a man is this. that maybe snowden went to hong kong because he saw the way prior whistle-blowers were treated and he felt it was a losing cause to stay here as a result. what do you say? >> i dont buy it. a whistle-blower is someone who sees wrong-doing within the law, someone -- so theres within the law but someone is acting outside of the law and then they blow the whistle in this particular case, based upon all the information that came out at the hearin...

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Not good at admitting that he made a mistake, did so just before his presidenciensed and i think that hurt him in the end. neil, theres a reason why the presidents raidings are falling. and that is that we have to be able to at least believe they told us the truth. this white house. neil: or at the time thought they were telling us the truth. >> but this white house is backtracking. what they said about ben georgia si isnt what they said six weeks ago or six days ago. the same thing with the irs...

Most sort of -- >> neil: strike at the heart of -- >> the world trade center was a place where lots of brokerage firms. i ended business as we know it -- neil -- >> neil: the point that the ends justifies the means and even wall streeters would appreciate that you have to do some very unpleasant things to protect capitalism. what do you say? >> here is the thing. if youre telling me the nsa program or foiled that plot, they would say thats impossible to prove. impossible. there is since 9/11 a c...

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