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From the united states, three from u.s. citizens. the question is once you located them, could you identify them as americans? and did you sift that stuff out? thats what id be concerned about, jake. >> give us an idea, text messages, whatsapp messages, photographs, e-mails, what? >> typically nost. i mean you are talking 330 million americans. you cant look at every single text message from every single american. i would start thinking about data. that is if someone is e-mailing a suspect e-mai...

Wednesdays raid that killed the ring leader of the attack. this video captures the moment when a suicide bomber detonates a vest. [ explosion ] >> theres also new informationing tonight about how the french police discovered the wring leaders location. joining us now with though details white house correspondent and u.s. bureau chief. what can you tell us? >> police received a tip from an ordinary citizen. they had the phone number, cell phone number and they had some people on sunday all over t...

Ordinary citizen. they had the phone number, cell phone number and they had some people on sunday all over the country to call them. and the citizen called them. called it 911 terrorist number, gave it to 911 tips and said i think i saw abdelhamid abaaoud and you might try to go to this location. the police were extremely surprised, the police people and decided to put surveillance on his cousin and followed the cousin and find out in less than 48 hours that booed was in this apartment since sun...

Also even under the best of sirc stapss if they do keep the records, then the justice department has to go running around to each -- or the nsa has to go around to each telephone company and search their records, about 100 carriers. its quite a cumbersome process. >> you were on capitol hill this week went behind closed doors with republican senators to brief them and im guessing to give them these arguments because they are tied in knotses right now about what to do. broadly, what did you tell ...

This. you said in june the damage that snowden did was real. you said every time we tell terrorists we can detect them we encourage them to find other wayways to avoid detection. >> that remains true today. the problem is the judge analyzed what the government could do if it wanted to abut this information. it could draw a profile of my calls or your calls or somebody elses calls. the government uses it only when there is information about a foreign terrorist number when its called by a number i...

Program that works to protect your privacy and li up to our constitutional obligation in congress that says we must provide for the general defense of the united states. we have found how to do this and protect your privacy. remember, most people think these phone calls are recorded. theyre not. most people think their names are associated with these phone numbers. theyre not. its just a whole list of phone numbers with no names and no addresses. when a terrorist number, just a terrorist number ...

Theres more information on an envelope that you fill out and stick in the mailbox than are in this database. this is billing records that already exist. they said we just need to put them in one place and hold them longer so we have a number to compare to. so theyre not calling them. theyre not doing pattern analysis. heres the best news of all. in this program, zero privacy violations, 54 terrorists, violent terrorist attacks thwarted. thats a pretty good record. thats a great record. and that ...

Overseas. thats a huge amount of data, and its gathered every day and turned over to the national security agency in this enormous database. now, thats part one, and thats what this court order that was reported by "the guardian" newspaper talks about. its the gathering of the data. it says nothing about part two which is what can the government do with it? now, the program is classified, so we dont know all the details, but what weve been told today by members of congress and people in the gove...

Yesterday to wish her a happy birthday, chances are pretty darn good theres a record of that call in the nsas massive computers. and you ask, good question, how do we know this? well, here is the order itself. formerly top secret approved april 25th by a court that issues warrants in the fight against terror. now were learning this snooping started seven years ago. how about this? two highly connected senators speaking just a short time ago say it is legal, totally legal under the patriot act en...

Intelligence committee said about this. >> this is just meta data. there is no content involved. in other words, no content of a communication. >> all of these numbers are basically ferreted out by computer, but if theres a number that matches a terrorist number that has been dialed by a u.s. number or dialed from a terrorist to a u.s. number, then that may be flagged. >> terrorists will come after us if they can, and the only thing that we have to deter this is good intelligence. to understand ...