program to give the u.s. or any other government direct access to our servers. we hadn't even heard of prism. we know there are statements in that comment that one could parse. for instance, okay, he didn't know it was called prism, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know that there wasn't a program. but is there any specifically in what he and the other tech companies have said that is not true, just downright false? >> here's what our story reported, that we have a top secret document from the nsa that talks about the prism program and what it describes in its own words is direct collection of data from the servers of those companies. so we reported that. we then went to the tech companies before our stories was published, we asked them about it, they said it wasn't true. we reported that the tech companies deny it and there was a discrepancy between what the nsa claims is going on and what the companies claim. that is the nature of our story,