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Of flynn with the russian ambassador, those were looked at once, according to your article, after intelligence officials were surprised that russia didnt retaliate for u.s. actions against russia, is that correct? >> caller: correct. the fbi has a wire tap on the russian ambassador and other diplomats, and they collect that all the time. and so after putin didnt respond as many officials had expected, intell analysts were scratching their heads, trying to figure out what happened, why didnt puti...

Under those issues are discovery and evidence rules that cant be disregarded just because the government is the custodian of the record. >> if the government went through a wire tap and got actual conversation that would get somebody off of a wrongfully convicted crime, im with you. but the metadata, not going -- >> thigh took it under the guise of national security, espionage and terrorist, i would pray to god they dont give it away to defense attorneys. leave it there. >> from the nsa collecti...

That nsa does. foreign intelligence with a focus on counter-terrorism. that is our mission to protect this country from things like 9-11. >> the programs require political contortions from president obama who just weeks ago spoke of striking a balance. >> they have interest in security and values in privacy. >> back in 2007 candidate obama was not accommodating with the same bush era they support. >> i am going to call my attorney general and say i want you to review every executive order whethe...

Company e-mail to do it? >> they shouldnt be able to, megyn. yes, can they look at it, yes. when youre a fbi agent and try to get a wire tap through the court the court will give you limited parameters what you can look at. if youre doing an investigation the employer is doing an investigation only looking for very specific things, not the items-- >> theyre monitoring-- >> what if you attach something on the personal e-mail they dont like. could they use that against you or fire you for that? >>...

Want to do a wire tap, you have to get approval from the doj. they did that in operation fast & furious and congress has been trying to figure out who signed on that at doj which claims they didnt know big about fast & furious and what do the wire taps say, because if they say a lot of stuff about the bad aspects of fast & furious, it would undermine dojs claim they didnt know anything about fast & furious or how controversial it was. heres attorney general eric holder last year: >> i would be s...

the presidential candidates go toe to toe tonight. as they face off in jacksonville. romney and gingrich are in a virtual poll. romney is ahead by just two percentage points. on the campaign trail, gingrich conceded that all the super pac attack ads have now hurt. but hes not backing down. >> i can promise you i am going to fight every day from here until we win the nomination, because i am not going to allow the monied interests that are bose buying those ads to come in here and into ...

On the floor about what i consider the inappropriate decline of a number of cases considered. one hundred ninety-nine -- 1886, the supreme court decided 146 opinions. little more than 20 years ago, 1987, 146 opinions. last year, last term, 78 arguments, 75 opinions. the supreme court declined to hear the argument which -- the decision which arguably is against article i powers under the foreign intelligence surveillance act which sets the exclusive means for getting a warrant -- listen to go a w...

Media in his view got it wrong about his recent arrest. the young journalist who broke the story about acorn stood ready to help him when he claimed that he wanted to set up a prostitution business. well, recently okeefe was arrested in new orleans, allegedly for attempting to interfere with phones in the office of senator mary landrieu. now, quite a few media outlets including msnbc pounced on the story of his arrest, some framing it as a modern day wa r watergate. one okeep supporter called on...

Media in his view got it wrong about his recent arrest. the young journalist who broke the story about acorn stood ready to help him when he claimed that he wanted to set up a prostitution business. well, recently okeefe was arrested in new orleans, allegedly for attempting to interfere with phones in the office of senator mary landrieu. now, quite a few media outlets including msnbc pounced on the story of his arrest, some framing it as a modern day wa r watergate. one okeep supporter called on...

Media in his view got it wrong about his recent arrest. the young journalist who broke the story about acorn stood ready to help him when he claimed that he wanted to set up a prostitution business. well, recently okeefe was arrested in new orleans, allegedly for attempting to interfere with phones in the office of senator mary landrieu. now, quite a few media outlets including msnbc pounced on the story of his arrest, some framing it as a modern day wa r watergate. one okeep supporter called on...