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Theres virtually no transparency at all about how much of this really has caught up american citizens. and i think thats really one of the issues here, is youve got the creation of a modern surveillance infrastructure with no debate publicly, except on an ad hoc basis whenever someone in the press reports about it. >> david? >> well, i dont think its fair to say that theres been no debate. after these programs were conducted without legal authority, essentially warrantless wiretapping under the ...

Of abuse, the level of -- theres virtually no transparency at all about how much of this really has caught up american citizens. and i think thats really one of the issues here, is youve got the creation of a modern surveillance infrastructure with no debate publicly, except on an ad hoc basis whenever someone in the press reports about it. >> david? >> well, i dont think its fair to say that theres been no debate. after these programs were conducted without legal authority, essentially warrantl...

U.s. government was involved spying on him, it adds to that tension. then again president obama can play the super bowl ring card on putin. a little lighter but i feel like were having flashbacks to some bad cold war movie from the 80s. >> i know the foreign press was met with trays of guinness when you arrived. well let you get back to it. appreciate it, chuck. >> thank you. >> well have more with chuck todd shortly in europe. we want to move on. there are unconfirmed reports nsa leaker snowden...

90s and 80s in the southeast. one area were concerned about is for the u.s. open. looks like today were going to see rain out there. already starting to work in parts of pennsylvania. rain can have a bad effect sometimes on golfing. even if it is fathers day. happy fathers day out there to everybody. >> is jennifer delgado, thanks. president obama heading to europe tonight. hes going to meet with other world leaders in it belfast, northern ireland, for the g-8 summit. the violent conflict in s...

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Identities but he is laying low. >> we dont take care of this, well both burn. >> a train. condition. built to disappear. >> so how hard can it be? in this digital age. >> its not impossible to track someone without them knowing, without them carrying something on them or obviously if theyre in a vehicle it would be quite easy to position one of the trackers under the vehicle without their knowledge. but otherwise, of course, we all know that by our phones we can be tracked. >> reporter: the for...

Colorado senator udall with big concerns about these surveillance programs. lets listen to what he had to say this morning. >> i dont think collecting millions and millions of americans phone calls, now this is the meta data, this is time, place, to whom you direct the calls is making us any safer and i think its ultimately perhaps a violation of the fourth amendment. i think we ought to have this debate. >> reporter: so there you heard the senator saying we ought to have the debate. the debate ...

That turned out to be a midlevel justice defendant lawyer to be prosecuted. uniformly, i bet you cannot go back and find a single liberal, progressive or democratic pundit taking alberto gonzalez side or condemning the source who blew the whistle on that program. >> now you think they have flipped? >> they have completely switched gears. yeah, you can even look at polling data. overwhelmingly democrats opposed nsa surveillance programs back in 2006 and overwhelmingly they now favor them because ...

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Morning with the former director of the nsa general michael hayden about this whole story. heres what he had to say. >> i understand the sensitivities. i have some of them myself but i do think whats been done, as the president said, is a fairly light hand that really gives us some significant returns in making us more safe. >> reporter: and so, there you heard from general hayden. they believe that the program made americans more safe. one bit of information we have now about a plot thwarted wi...