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So far it looks like this whiff of scandal is not even a whiff. anyway, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you. coming up on "hardball," whatever happened to the gops plans to stay out of women trouble, going after women on issues where they better not have gone? house republicans this evening are voting to challenge roe v. wade again, this time by banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. theyre closing the window on abortions, once again challenging the supreme court. guys, if yo...

Thank you congressman jim himes of connecticut. >> yeah, i hear you. thanks, chris. >> lets turn to sam stein with the "huffington post." sam, reading this as a gist journalist and looking at this stuff and the presidents presentation to charlie rose last night, is he closing the door on the fact that -- is he proving to the american people that everything is on the up and up here? >> its a tough call. on the one hand, you know, it would be -- its logical this program is effective. youre colle...

Nsa on wednesday told congress that these methods of surveillance, in particular the prism program that, that may have helped prevent dozens of terrorist attacks? well, specifically one from 2009? >> section 702 clarkson was critical to discovery and disruption of the plot to bomb the new york city subway system; is that correct? >> that is correct. in fact not just critical, it was the one that developed the lead on it. >> well, snowden says thats also not true. in his online chat he wrote "u.s...

Further and detail some more of these safeguards and maybe even detail specifics about terrorist attacks or plots that were thwarted. weve heard it kind of generically, but with specifics, when, where, how, to push back against the skepticism of these programs. again, its important to point out, we dont know the other side of this. we dont know that this is actually him, we dont know that hes in hong kong typing this. weaking the guardians reporting and glen greenwald saying it is him to be accu...

There was such a premium on gathering as much as possible to try to prevent terrorist attacks and lets stress that they have prevented terrorist attacks over the years since then, but i think it took such a volume of work to get that done, that you bring the contractors in. i think that has to be evaluated. that whole system has to be evaluated now, because, you know, as robert and others have said here, you cant have the edward snowdens of the world running around with access to the most sensit...

Needed to be secret. now the nsa is saying we only looked at 300 phone numbers. the program in broad terms prevented a large number of terrorist attacks. why arent these things they could have told us initially? they dont have to tell us about specific operations that they thwarted. they dont have to tell us exactly whose phone number they looked at nap should obviously be secret. kind of broad information that fueled this policy debate are things that can be discussed publicly without undermini...

Actions. so im reading the paper this morning and the argument was made if we dont do something like this and we get hit again the country will be even more into a mood of lets do everything we can to make sure that doesnt happen again and we get much more restrictive in terms of privacy. >> there is an interesting debate about whether this program did, in fact, prevent terrorist attacks and how much people are willing to give up order to have that assurance which is an impossible assurance to m...

Either of these two programs. you say it is not happening at all under any program. >> no. and i cant tell you how strong we need to make this clear. the nsa is not listening to americans phone calls, and it is not monitoring their e-mails. if it did, its illegal. its breaking the law. >> right. and its not recording them either? >> i could go get a warrant on a criminal case, yeah, absolutely. its very, very different. i think they think theres this mass surveillance of what youre saying on y...

Being useful. the government has been very eager to talk about how this program has helped stop terrorist attacks. lets listen to what nsa director general keith alexander had to say in testimony on capitol hill last week. hes talking about this section of the patriot act that allows this data to be collected. lets listen to the exchange between him and senator patrick leahy from vermont. >> we collect millions and millions and millions of records through 215, but dozens of them have proved cruc...

>> reporter: if they could, firefighters say they would save every home. the greatest pain is knowing they cant. fredericka, when youre with those firefighters going through the remains of the destroyed homes. the emotions going through them, they know its somebodys home or somebodys life. and that home was sacrificed so thousands more may be saved. >> a tough call to make. martin savidge. thanks so much. hours away, get ready for a new way of waking up in the mornings. tomorrow, the debay of ...