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that damage. >> reporter: the newly declassified footage appears to directly concept rah dictate russias claim that the aircraft did not make physical contact. >> there was no collision. the problem is that we didnt contact to this drone. >> the russians have been just flat out lying. flat out lying about their account. >> reporter: the u.s. has not yet determined whether the pilots intended to directly hit the drone, forcing the u.s. military to crash the drone into the black sea some...

very fast moving developments. first, the u.s. fighter jets striking an iranian weapons storage facility in syria again. the growing call to respond harder to 46 iranian sponsored attacks on u.s. soldiers. this time to expand the counter attacks, not to proxies of iran outside iran but iran inside and inside iran. we have knox team coverage on the growing iranian threat. jacqui heinrich on the u.s. ramping up their response to that threat and former defense secretary mark esper on if e...

>> because just on its face, everyone -- >> everybody is subject to the program. we happen to be, the aclu happens to be a customer of verizon business networks which is the company that was the recipient of the order that edward snowden disclosed. >> okay. so what happens next? >> thats a very good question. i wish i had a clearer answer to it. the reason i dont is we get this decision coincidentally at a time when congress is already in this heated debate about government surveillance, and ...

Government surveillance, and were in this heated debate because the provision, the patriot act provision that underlies this particular program is set to sunset, expire on june 1st. congress is already debating what should we do between now and june 1st? reauthorize section 215, let it set? this decision kind of throws all of that into a degree of chaos. >> right, if that werent the case, it would be fairly clear, right, the government would probably repeal. >> thats right. >> if the thing is go...