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Judges have always had in this country, its called individualized suspicion. they have to suspect that you are a criminal and they have to start gathering evidence against you and then they go to a federal judge and they get a warrant to get more information, individualized suspicion, but we now live in a world where the government is saying we cant operate under that premise. we have to be able to monitor anybody who might have a connection to terrorism, anyone who might have a link to al qaeda...

Awaki. all of a sudden it will siphon out, and if i make a capture in pakistan, it comes together. theyve got to get rid of the u.s. numbers. i salute the president for keeping it in place. he got in there and looked around and said wow, this program is better than i thought. >> do you have he ha do you this sufficient evidence that it works? >> congressman rogers said we did stop a few terrorist attacks. id like him to mention them. >> prove it. show us. >> they debit set it up themself. tickly...

Program stopped terrorist attacks. never made sense. if they had a terrorist in sight, they could have got not a warrant, presented ever that the person was a terrorist, and eavesdropped anyway. the same is true here. if the government believes that somebody is engaged in terrorist activity, they could go to the pfizer court or to the internet company and say, we have reason to believe this person is guilty of something, you should let us read their e-mail and surveil them in real time. thats no...

Without first getting warrant. they would say, well, this program stopped terrorist attacks. never made sense. if they had a terrorist in sight, they could have got not a warrant, presented ever that the person was a terrorist, and eavesdropped anyway. the same is true here. if the government believes that somebody is engaged in terrorist activity, they could go to the pfizer court or to the internet company and say, we have reason to believe this person is guilty of something, you should let us...

How that is damaging at all. >> is it because were damaging the operation of prism or the image. do we know prism has thwarted some terrorist attacks. >> i dont know that. i dont know that. i cant answer that question. >> how frustrated are you by all of this? >> well -- >> as you said, you have been o potsing the patriot acts -- >> not the entire patriot acts. parts of it. certainly this part. because we anticipated that this could be the result. we were assured it wouldnt be but we anticipated...

Whom theyre placed and the duration of the call, if you were to make a phone call to a number that is known to be used by senior al qaeda operatives, and you repeatedly made calls like that, and you are making calls that take longer than it takes to say, i am sorry i dialed the wrong number, then they will take a keen interest in that. as somebody so well said earlier, were looking to for a needle in a haystack in these surveillance operations and these data are the haystack. you have to have th...

Chinas new president in southern california yesterday. xi called the meeting to chart the future of china/u.s. relations. the issue of cybersecurity is expected to be on the agenda for the the two leaders, president obama is fighting critics at home for the governments controversial surveillance program. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin has more on the high tech debate. >> reporter: president obama unapologetic about high tech government snooping. >> my assessment and my teams asse...

And location of phone calls. take a listen. >> nobodys listening to the content of peoples phone calls. my assessment and my teams assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. >> critics are concerned this practice could pull americans into a dragnet based on associations. don? >> thank you. later well look at ways to protect information you want kept secret. just when you thought you had heard it all a defense team representing a young man accused of taking part in a heinous cr...

>> they help us prevent terrorist attacks. we have a debate. >> miss world is venezuela. >> greg: shocking news from miss world organizers, no bikini competition this year in an effort to apiece muslims. well have a special report. >> im crushed. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> im greg gutfeld in tonight for bill oreilly. thanks for watching us. the bombshell revelations about our government spying on us, thats the subject of this evenings talkin...

Analysis. thank you very much. >> up next on this special live edition of outfront, were waiting for a press conference to start any minute now in santa monica, california for an update on the deadly shooting spree. standby for that. well have live coverage. plus, an arrest in the case of rricin being sent to the president of the united states and the mayor of new york. the suspect and the actress who appeared on one of the most popular tv shows. and the u.s. government is collecting details on ...