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A adversarial position. i think most people are concerned that nsa is willy-nilly getting content or doing searches. i do believe that we make sure that that can never have. >> even if theyre not getting content or searches, theyre getting a heck of a lot of information as everyone who knows what that phone data is, should someone choose to misuse it. >> thats the key point, should they choose to misuse it. so if somebody has -- if you had reasonable suspicion that a phone number was involved in...

Data that is collected on every american? >> first of all, thank you so much for having me, candy. yes, but i felt that way before. as you know, the president spoke out on this issue long before snowden and i was very comfortable with the presidents position on this. its just that every now and then you catch a vote in order to let your constituents know and for your colleagues to know exactly how you feel abouts situation and also let the white house know that this is something that we cannot a...

That phone data collecting program? oh, yes, he can. transparency is always very, very important. i think most american people want to be safe and secure in their homes and when they are carrying out their day to day activities and so we want the president to do what is necessary to keep us safe. hes got a tremendous record in that regard, and im very proud of that record, but all things dont start and stop at the presidents desk. >> as you go down the line and as you know, we have a process in ...

All that upheld by the courts. and secondly, this paper says the program meets the relevance test because of the unique name of phone data, that it allows relationships to be discovered only if the government has all the records to start with. this is what intelligence officials mean when they say, to find a needle in the haystack you have to have the haystack. >> pete, on the issue of the fisa courts, senator ron wyden is one of the critics of the president on this issue. he called the fisa cou...

Disrupt terrorist plots and it does not allow the government to listen to any phone calls without a warrant. but given the scale of this program, i understand the concerns of those who would worry that it could be subject to abuse. >> now the president has a four-point plan to make the nsa more transparent. point one is working with congress to improve the part of the patriot act that deals with collecting phone data, section 215 of the patriot act. point two to figure out how to make sure fisa ...

Amendment that would essentially limit surveillance of all the phone records here in the united states of america. today the amendment on a defense department bill would defund the nsas bulk collection on peoples meta data. keep in mind, these are people who are not under investigation. if you go out and get a warrant, people dont have a problem with that. but its just the bulk wholesale spying on everybody in the united states that has a lot of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle worried. so t...

Citizens, one was a legal permanent resident and as was made clear yesterday that is precisely the category of people do cant be routinely monitored and surveilled. the boston case is an illustration that we havent done certain things we might do because of legal restrictions. ill tell you from my own experience, the kind of data you can pick up from this kind of program is enormously valuable in disrupting plots. we went back after 9/11 when i was secretary, we looked at whether this kind of da...

Is is all this surveillance -- assuming that the zazi plot would not have been uncovered without this surveillance program, is that enough? or do they need to be more than just one? and that is a discussion difficult to fix out right here. but intelligence officials would say if you save one life with these programs, why not? >> well thats a reasonable point. the question is will some -- ten years down the road will the fact your internet data and phone data be used in some way that, you know, w...

>> politicians are jumping to the defense of the p.r.i.s.m. program. dana bash has that. >> a press to calm american concerns abtd secret surveillance concerns led by the republican intelligence chairman. >> the number of cases where we have stopped a plot, i think americans will come to a different conclusion that the misleading rhetoric i have heard. >> reporter: intelligence agencies are working to declassify information about the terror plots that told congress the secret programs helped to ...

>> no, i dont think so. i think the boston case is irrelevant here. >> why? >> pause -- because you have two guys who are largely off the net. they were home growns. are you sure we would have found something there? im not sure. i think there is a very simple question here, the word surveillance is too narrow. let me tell you what that question is. if you want to understand a conspiracy in the 21st century you can send 20 people out with shoes on to follow you or you could say let me look at the...