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Local industry there. cruz is against it. trump is a big supporter of federal subsidies for ethanol. thats the first issue. and, you know, i think he might go -- i think the second issue is on nsa reform. weve seen marco rubio and cruz split on this. cruz supported the reforms they made to the telephone metadata program. rubio didnt. i have not heard where trump is on that issue. its an important issue in terms of national security, which trump has been talking about a lot. those are two spots t...

Loretta lynch, the attorney general, just said last week her greatest fear is not another terror attack but rather anti-muslim backlash. of course we should all respect each other, but at the same time we cant let political correctness hamstring our fight in the war against radical islamic terror. >> i want to talk about nsa surveillance because a change to the nsa surveillance program took effect just last week, which means the agency cannot automatically access as much information on americans...

The different national objectives. the french, the turks, the russians, the united states, the coalition, all of them are looking at different targets. its going to be very difficult to get a consolidated approach to defeat isis when there are so many other players involved. >> thats too bad. lieutenant general, thank you. >> thank you, pamela. tomorrow the nsa is set to end its mass telephone metadata program. going forward, the nsa can only ask the phone company for records on a case by case...

>> if we look at what were doing and whether it works there are number of programs shown not to work, including the telephone metadata program where after it was revealed by edward snowden, all the claims about its success fell apart. >> they were lying. the metadata collection, the violation of privacy didnt work. >> arealy its the mass collection. we have thrown a much wider net but what we see in almost all cases is when somebody slips through the cracks there was information that could have ...

Why is this necessary? the program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11. one of the 9/11 hijackers, khalid mindar, made a phone call from san diego to a known al qaeda safe house in yemen. nsa saw that call but it could not see that the call was coming from an individual already in the united states. the telephone metadata program under section 215 was designed to map the communications of terrorists so we could see who they may be in contact with as quickly as possible. t...

Call from san diego to a known al qaeda safe house in yemen. nsa saw that call. but could not see that the call was coming from an individual already in the united states. the telephone metadata program, under section 215, was designed to map the communications of terrorists, so we can see who they may be in contact with as quickly as possible. >> all right. so when you heard that, peter, youre an expert on this subject. what did you think? >> you know, the real problem in this case was this kha...

And procedures in place to provide greater transparency to our surveillance activities. and fortify the safeguards that protect the privacy of u.s. persons. since we began this review, including the information being released today, weve declassified over 40 opinions and orders of the foreign tell against surveillance court which provide judicial review of some of our most sensitive intelligence activities including the section 702 program targeting foreign individuals overseas and the section 2...

Having is commendable. and i think we shouldnt conflate all this. the telephone metadata program geared at foreign terrorists is one thing. congress has a couple of approaches to narrow it. i dont think it should be eliminates because i think it will be back bigger than ever if we get attacked. theres a separate thing, an executive order. i write about this in todays "washington post." >> its a great piece. >> thank you very much. it was issued by president reagan and has been updated a couple o...

Fo -- discomfort of a broad nature of the telephone metadata program which is under 702 and he had an hour and a half meeting with senator durbin and that meeting last and a hour and a half with a bipartisan group speaking to him about the ways to narrow the number of years that the telephone records are kept or whether some other record keeping should keep place external to the government. >> right. >> what do you as a former intelligence officer think about the discomfort that the comma comman...

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