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Topic often is through humor. we see that on "the daily show" every day. guys weve got a lot coming up this hour. president obama delivering a speech at berlins historic brandenburg gate. will he address the scandals surrounding his administration, including the nsa surveillance programs. and speaking of that, we have the director of the nsa giving his testimony. youre looking at it right now. this is what was new. programs work. that was his point. that there have been plots, dozens foiled ...

Snooping programs? plus police say they have uncovered another instance of people being held captive for years in ohio, this time it was a mother and a daughter. and were going to have the latest on that for you tonight. and then amanda knox, an italian court citing what might have happened the night her roommate was killed. a major development that could totally change knoxs life. for a special report lets go "outfront." ♪ good evening everyone im erin burnett. terror attacks foiled. today th...

If we have information about a terrorist making contact somewhere in the united states, then we have the ability to go into this hay stack and the ability to pick out just two things a phone number and a length of call. nobodys name is there. and there is no address or any issue like that. >> living in san diego, prior to 9/11. those are the guys who drove the plane that crashed into the pentagon, all right. we do not know theyre in san diego. they called a known terrorist facility in the middle...

Presidents did not want to compromise and work out together. ultimately, obama camp won since it turned in the request first and through putin style, the russian president then decided to take a chilchilly swim outsi apparently the nsa director keith alexander thought yesterdays testimony by the fbi deputy director went well after the hearing, but before microphone were turned off, alexander expressed appreciation. >> good to see you. tell your boss. i owe him another fricking beer. >> joyce r...

Abbottabad, plug it into a database and have a call log right in front of them to see who terrorists are talking to. the president also says that programs like that have stopped dozens of terrorist plots. >> weve saved lives. we know of at least 50 threats that have been averted because of this information not just from the united states, but in some cases threats here in germany. >> reporter: and that statistic, about 50 terror attacks being stopped by surveillance programs, but also used -- wa...

Tried for war crimes and that he would give his presidency a failing grade. with friends like that. now back to you, brian, for the rest of the news. >> thank you, joe. lot of other news to get to this morning including the nations top security officials on capitol hill attempting to bring some claritity to the nsas controversial surveillance programs. yesterday the head of the nsa general keith alexander defended his agency saying that his agency has kept americans safe on a number of occasio...

It doesnt. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov/pretend to learn your risk. rands paul leading the charge against the governments sweeping surveillance programs. calling it snooping and all out assault on the constitution. we asked keith alexander about the criticism. >> what do you say to your critics who say that what youre doing violates the constitution and is an overreach of the government? >> i would tell you, that everybody has a difference of op...

Suggestion in congress today that the september 11th attacks could have been prevented if the nsa had secret surveillance programs then that it has been forced to defend now. >> i would much rather be here today, debating this point, than trying to explain how we failed to prevent another 9/11. >> reporter: after the hearing, general alexander of the nsa revealed how that leaker, edward snowden, was able to get his hands-on top secret documents. alexander said that snowden was being trained as a...

Bill: he didnt want to go through with it. >> the directives were make it as painful as possible. i think people understand that was the white houses intention. you cant hide reality with words. martha: the white house says surveillance programs did help stop brazen terrorist attacks, including one on the new york stock exchange. bill: plus a monkey on the loose. [♪]

They cannot and have not by law and by rule unless they, and usually it wouldnt be they, it would be the fbi, go to a court and obtain a warrant. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was pretty direct. that was president obama on charlie rose last night, defending the governments use of sweeping surveillance techniques, the details of which were recently exposed by nsa leaker edward snowden. despite the efforts at damage control, americans remain divided about the usefulness of these programs. a ...