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Americas top national security officials are exposing their own secrets to try to prove the controversial surveillance programs stop terrorists. today they revealed that more than 50 potential attacks worldwide have been prevented since 9/11. because of those programs, they claim. including plots targeting the new york stock exchange and the new york city subway system. they accused the nsa of helping enemies. barbara starr has more on the details made public today at a congressional hearing. >>...

And other programs that may exist? >> no, and this is such an important point. lets say the u.s. government collects everybodys phone records and taps into everybodys internet chats. they then say, when it turns out they get caught doing that, we detect a terrorist plot as a result of this program, no, that isnt correct. they ended up detecting terrorist plots because they specifically listened in on the phone conversations or e-mail communications of specific people about whom there was evidenc...

Phone conversations or e-mail communications of specific people about whom there was evidence to believe they were engaged in terrorism. what the u.s. government always did in the past, when they battled the soviets, engaged in the cold war, it was a very targeted surveillance, it was only against people for whom there was really evidence to believe they were engaged in wrongdoing. indiscriminate massive surveillance makes it harder to find the bad people because they have so much information, t...

Cheney. air fear, one out of control passenger said he was poisoned. his fellow fliers had to tie him down. amazing rescue, two teams stranded on a cliff, the daring airlift that brought them to safety. >> your "new day" starts right now. this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela perei pereira. >> good morning and welcome to "new day" day two. thank you for joining us. im kate bolduan. >> im chris cuomo, it is june 18th, 6:00 in the east. president obama on his heels but ...

Detect a terrorist plot as a result of this program, no, that isnt correct. they ended up detecting terrorist plots because they specifically listened in on the phone conversations or e-mail communications of specific people about whom there was evidence to believe they were engaged in terrorism. what the u.s. government always did in the past, when they battled the soviets, engaged in the cold war, it was a very targeted surveillance, it was only against people for whom there was really evidenc...

Issues, about the massive leaks over the last week, how they operate and what these surveillance programs have been able to break up. well go back to the hearing the second theres any news. in the meantime, there is a lot of other news around the world, starting in boston, where a confessed killer takes the stand once again to testify against whitey bulger, a man he called once hess best friend. on monday john motaranno said it brought his heart when he found out he was an fbi inform ant. bulger...

Defenders of the democratic presidents surveillance programs. he very much believes, along with his democratic counterpart, who you will also see, dutch rubersberger, to try to explain that these are absolutely necessary, they have very much helped keep americans safe, and along the lines of what you were talking about with our guests, his argument is that richard snowden is simply not a whistle-blower, hes flat-out lied about what this program can and cant do. thats likely going to be a part of...

Talk about these programs with more specificity. lets start with the 20 countries were talking about around the world where other plots have been stopped. which countries are they? i think right now we -- it wasnt a great deal of information released today that we didnt know. the two big plots, the zazi plot and headley plot. we knew about these already. and some of that, by the way, weve known about for a long time. >> right. all right. peter bergen, thank you so much. president obama is abou...

Cuo cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> good morning, good morning, welcome to ngs new day." >> its great to be here with you, tuesday, june 18th, 7:00 in the east and we are in the middle of 30 minutes of commercial free news. we begin right now president barack obama attempting to bounce back after the awful poll numbers and the day after his approval ratings took an eight-point plunge the president is insisting anyone outraged by the top secret surveillance programs just doesnt get i...

Operative bob baer. thank you for coming on, because you know so much about this. youve heard general alexander testifying today, saying these programs, together with other intelligence, have protected the u.s. and our allies. 50 plots thwarted since 9/11. how important were the surveillance programs, do you think? >> well, erin, you know, if you listen to his words carefully, he said they aided in uncovering these plots. he didnt say that they were solely led to the uncovering of these plots. a...