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Does remain a threat, but its a loose collection without a unified structure. unlike an octopus, when you cut off the head the tentacles regroup and thats exactly what happened. taken advantage of the unstable governments. and thankfully flew n samplet and drone strikes we have been able to get rid of the lot of the senior leadership after the killing of usama bin laden. >> laura: those are bush programs. >> actually, obama ramped them up tremendouslily and unfortunately there is a lot of member...

Without a unified structure. unlike an octopus, when you cut off the head the tentacles regroup and thats exactly what happened. taken advantage of the unstable governments. and thankfully flew n samplet and drone strikes we have been able to get rid of the lot of the senior leadership after the killing of usama bin laden. >> laura: those are bush programs. >> actually, obama ramped them up tremendouslily and unfortunately there is a lot of members of your party that seem intent in living in the...

Committed by americans. according to reuters, a secret dea unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of americans. reuters also reporting that law enforcement officials are getting trained that once they get these tips from nsa surveillance and other places, they should cover up that the information that they got came from any of those surveillance programs. they should, instead, pretend that they got t...

Is related to the prison breaks. but you have to be concerned about the prison breaks in libya, iraq, and pakistan where all of these arrested terrorists are now on the loose. >> so under diminished capacity. >> lets put this in a broader context. one of the debates were having about these surveillance programs is we are far enough away from 9/11 that we ought to look at the means we are using to try to track these threats, and our programs may have helped in the intelligence stream here. part o...

Like its possible to demonstrate a clear tie. i think that congressman schiff there was talking about the collection of phone records in the domestic united states. that seems like a reach. of course, the nsa does quite a lot of foreign surveillance of communications, e-mail, skype, that kind of thing. that very well could be playing a role here. but we simply dont know. i suppose that you could make the case, if you want -- if you are somebody who thinks we should have strong surveillance progr...

Us. we need to know and realize were living in an increasingly dangerous world. and this specific threat that weve been briefed on over and over again has reached a new level. >> senator chambliss, look, were also in the middle of a big debate over surveillance programs. i got to put the question to you directly. are our surveillance programs what are giving us this stream of specific information, specific intelligence, on this potential plot? >> well, thats kind of interesting, david, because i...

Concern. it was underlined over the weekend. you had this major meeting going on at the white house. only within the past few minutes the chairman of the joints chief left the state department. whent over there to have lunch with john kerry, the secretary of state. youve covered washington for a long time. you get a sense when something is going on based on the rhythm of whats happening whether the state department, the white house, the pentagon, you get a feeling of whats going on. something is...

And playing into the hands of the president politically is not the right thing to do. plus its going to do great harm to the american people if we pursued that course. >> senator durbin, final point here with a few seconds left. >> i can just tell you senator cruz is part of a few extreme people in the senate when it comes to this subject, calling for shutting down the government of the united states, even shutting down the american economy to make his political point. thats not the right way to...

Hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not. >> not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect but not wittingly. >> skrams james clapper told our andrea mitchell after that testimony that is the least untruthful answer he could give. now this morning "the guardian" newspaper is reporting members of congress who want more information now that its been leaked and made public, is still not learning about the truex tent and depth and breadth of these...

The president politically is not the right thing to do. plus its going to do great harm to the american people if we pursued that course. >> senator durbin, final point here with a few seconds left. >> i can just tell you senator cruz is part of a few extreme people in the senate when it comes to this subject, calling for shutting down the government of the united states, even shutting down the american economy to make his political point. thats not the right way to go. senator chambliss and i h...