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Prevent terrorist attacks, but they want specifics. should the american public know whats going on? >> well, certainly i think weve got to give a lot of weight to those in congress that have looked at this and thought about this and those in the executive branch that are tasked with protecting our country. at the same time, i think it is appropriate to have some transparency for the most transparent administration ever to give some transparency into the controls that are being used on these busi...

Endorse a far greater harm to civil liberties. amid many real abuses of power, the political temptation will be to tie data mining into a narrative about a government out of control. such tunism can only weaken our counterterror defenses and endanger the country. they are saying this is preventing terror attacks. >> they dont have enough evidence to evaluate the claim. the government has refused to share the al go rhythms using to filter out the data and using the trust us model, saying dont wor...

Safeguards. but my assessment and my teams assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. and the modest encroachments on privacy that are involved in getting phone numbers or duration without a name attached and not looking at content that on, you know, net, it was worth us doing. some other folks may have a different assessment of that. but i think its important to recognize that you cant have 100% security and also then have 100% privacy and zero

And also then have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience. you know, were going to have to make some choices as a society. >> it is an extremely difficult debate. obviously nobody likes the notion of having their phones and e-mails monitored in any way, but how much did we care about privacy after the boston marathon terrorist attacks, we suspected and pleaded for omniscient prapparatus that cou do this sort of thing. even though many now wish the feds kept an eye on tsarnaev tsarnaev after the rus...

>> i came in, with a healthy skepticism about these programs. my team evaluated them. we scrubbed them thoroughly. we actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards, but my assessment and my teams assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. >> part of what the president said today was the fact that you cannot have 100% security and 100% privacy with zero inconvenience, i believe the word he used was trade-off. he said he welcomes this debate, called it ...

Here on cnn, the president saying, no, the government is not listening in on your phone calls. this is his first response to this outcry over the government data mining story that erupted late wednesday. he took a question on the matter while in california today. and he answered, for nearly ten minutes. here he was, the president. >> i came in, with a healthy skepticism about these programs. my team evaluated them. we scrubbed them thoroughly. we actually expanded some of the oversight, increase...

Assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. and the modest encroachments on privacy that are involved in getting phone numbers or duration without a name attached and not looking at content that on, you know, meant it was worth us doing. some other folks may have a different assessment of that. but i think its important to recognize that you cant have 100% security and also then have 100% privacy and zero

But my assessment and my teams assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. >> for the president thats the bottom line. >> we know when george bush made a statement those on the left hit him hard. >> i think the wording there was really interesting. he said after coming in and examing it my team and him and his team made the assessment that it was all right and proper. i think critics of the program would say whether youre a member of congress or a judge that the law so severely c...

It was not long ago that people were asking about that terrorist attack in boston and should we have done more to say look at the tsarnaev brothers? mike rogers says it has stopped terrorist attacks, so where do you find the balance and where is your dividing line and do you think that potentially this has crossed it? >> i think that if there is some suspicion that somebody is involved in terrorism or if there is some connection to an individual, that justifies wiretaps or interfering with their...

>> i want to play a little bit of what the house speaker said today. because he was suggesting a criticism of the administration for not explaining itself on this. but from what you have just said, everybody has been briefed, its been litigated and passed, lets see what the speaker had to say. >> there are public policy and civil liberties concerns amongst americans today. i trust that the president will explain to the american people why the administration considers this a critical tool in prot...