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And sarah westwood, white house correspondent for the "washington examiner." >> your reporting is crucial, you spoke with a former u.s. official about the wire-tapping allegations. tell us about that allegation. >> the former senior white house official who had direct knowledge of the investigation surrounding trump associates, meddling in the election, and other facts within the election, deny that there was any intentional tapping of donald trumps phones. or anything intentional sort of at tru...

>> it is clear he broke the wire tapping law? they didnt charge him with that. in new york you are allowed to record something like that. is this wire tapping law even apply with i-pads and all? >> i am glad you brought that up. and yes, lars, agree with everything you said in shock and i will delete the bullying emails you sent to me. but i have to say state-by-state this is going to have to change. this is time where people are taking pictures and posting them online. is everybody getting pict...

And iraq, wire tapping, enhances interrogation. you had four heart attacks, three catheterizations, a defibrillator, bypass surgery. >> right. >> did you worry about your physical health impacting your judgment, your cognition? >> no. >> not at all? >> no. >> were you the best that you could be? >> i was as good as i could be given the fact that i was 60 some years old at that point and a heart patient. >> unbelievable. >> sanjay had a bunch of studies that suggest that people with decreased blo...

Wi-fi networks. anybody who has a wi-fi network that is not pass-protecting it, i dont get that. like, this is out there. were not wire-tapping. when youre on a find call, a hard line phone call, someone has to physically do something to tap into it. but if youre just driving along and the information is out there -- >> trace: i like the idea -- what happens is now this kind of means law enforcement need a warrant. so even if your wi-fi is not passwordded, they still need a warrant they cant jus...

The amount of data to be data mined by the nsa and theres very little legal framework to cover it. so the nsa has grown with enormous power compared to where it was just six or seven years ago. >> to that point about the legal framework, because when james and others uncovered this warrantless wiretapping that was taking place back in 2002, congresss response was interesting. they said basically the nsa had to go to the court in order to obtain warrants but they could still do it. is part of the...

>> shepard: this is "studio b." its the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. president obama assured the nation nobody is listening to your telephone calls. thank you, mr. president. it was his first public response since two newspapers revealed a slough of details about our gots jacques surveillance bram. the guardian" reported a secret court order allowed the the feds to pull phone records for tens of millions of customers of verizon. the records include phone numbers and times of...

States on an ongoing, daily basis. according to the reporting$g4 of the "the guardian" the records including phone numbers, times ofç calls, where they took plae but not the content of the call. in other words, no wire tapping. civil liberty groups were quick to condemn the report, but the charm of the house intelligence committee says that helped prevent an attack on u.s. soil, and critics were told, calm down. >> thisñr program has been in effect for sevenç years, is a recall. its a progr...

Terrorists want to terrorize us. want us to concede to fear. my hope is that the community spirit, the resilience of the american people, which the president spoke so well to is what comes out of this. not the overreaction to fear, which i think we have seen for sure in the wake of 9/11 when this country overreacted and allowed unamerican things and the shredding of principles that make this country great. allowed the indefinite detention of people or allowed the warrantless wire-tapping or allo...

-- what too you make of this, michelle? can the irs too -- do this? >> the fourth amendment requires a warrant to search everything somebody has a reasonable expectation of privacy. so the question do is we have a reasonable expectation of privacy over e-mail some the answer is, you bet your bippy. >> neil: what would make the irs take the leap? >> let me go back and say the irs can do whatever they want. [laughter] >> but at the irs thinks they can do this because theyre the irs and theres an a...

The media between the administration and thats just the way it is. and its not fair, but i think we all understand and its all pretty obvious with respect to the level of scrutiny that some members of the media and interest groups placed on the action of the administration based upon who the president is. >> of course the irony is that the tactics that the bush administration used, wire tapping or water boarding and certainly a case can be made against those and legal experts debated those ad na...