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An issue than how a high school dropout ended up privy to the super secret surveillance programs. >> i ask you if youre troubled that he was given that kind of opportunity to be so close to important information that was critical to the security of our nation. >> i have glrave concerns over that. the access that he had, the process that we did. and those are things that i have to look into and fix from my end and across the intel community. >> reporter: now, today alexander will hold an unusual ...

Opportunity to be briefed. but lawmakers saying they perhaps didnt understand the if you would scope of some of these programs. hes being asked about a whole host of issues. benghazi, guns and background checks. but the primary question what keeps coming up time and time again is for him to sort of defend these nsa programs. and he has been doing that. he was specifically asked about snowden and he admitted the leaks had an impact. >> as for the individual who has admitted, he is the subject of ...

Itself had to be evacuated because the smoke was so thick. at this point this fire is zero percent contained. hopefully all those aircraft and all the firefighters on the ground will begin to make a dent but at this point zero percent containment. john and christine, back to you. >> thanks. looks like another tough day for firefighters in colorado. tough day for administration officials at capitol hill. robert mueller will meet with members of the house judicial committee, theyre sure to fire ...

Feel to the place in which we live here. so its a difficult experience to go through. we are very, very blessed that weve got a good support structure and lots of family here and able to get our belongings out in time. >> well, i wish you and your family all the very best in rebuilding your lives after such an appalling thing to hit you and the community. i really do and thank you both very much indeed for joining me. >> thank you, piers. ill return to the other big story, administration intel...

Access to google, facebook and other internet giants. he also revealed documents showing the nsa is collecting telephone records of verizon customers. security experts say other companies also involved in that kind of collection. and today snowden told a chinese newspaper that the national security agency, the nsa, has been hacking computers in hong kong and china since 2009. bill: so whats your take? what do you think at home? what do you think about the surveillance programs? what should happe...

Provision for whistle blowing within our ndeaa act, the bill were debating today on the house floor with respect to some of the issues of sexual assault. >> congressman loretta sanchez thanks for being here today. i appreciate it. and thanks for taking a personal question. developing right now, robert mueller defending the governments sweeping surveillance programs. mueller said the data in a massive u.s. government database, telephone, daily telephone records has been instrumental in identifyin...

Questions about and for which the director of intelligence, frankly lied to the u.s. senate and said, were not collecting any data on any americans, when in fact theyre doing a billion pieces of data every day. >> so he says there are constitutional questions about the surveillance programs and there are serious credibility problems with the intelligence apparatus in this country. do you agree? >> no, i dont. >> with either one of those? >> no, with neither. let me assume that i do for a moment,...

the presidential election in tehran tonight. first stopping terror. today the head of the nsa testified before congress that surveillance programs like the one leaked by edward snowden last week are crucial to our national security. >> its dozens of terrorist events that these have helped prevent. >> is the u.s. government collecting too much unnecessary data in the process? senator patrick expressing skepticism about the mountains and mountains of information that the government is collectin...

Recorded? >> i cant conceive of it being true. number one. think its technologically beyond the capacity of any surveillance agency to do that. and number two, it doesnt make sense with what it is we know about this program. the agency gathers from american telecommunication providers what are essentially business records. they dont collect it, they dont put alligator clips on some wires somewhere. these are records that the company creates for their own purposes. then under this court order, sh...

Senator obama say some not so nice things about these surveillance programs. how does that feel? >> there was a concern, all right? there was a concern among us in the bush administration. we felt comfortable with these programs. jake, we thought they were necessary. we believed they were lawful, they were appropriate and they were effective, theres great concern on our part that the way candidate obama had spoken. that some of these programs would be stopped. the fact of the matter is, most of ...