president obama was told in 2010 that the nsa was spying. tapping the phone of german chancellor angela americael and letting it go on. they press whether the white house would have been told foreign leaders were being tapped. >> would it, in fact, any value of that information find its way to at least the national security council in the white house? >> it certainly could. it may not have position specifically related to a specific selector or any specific collection target. what they would see, though, would be the output of this in its total dimension. >> i want to bring in chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. we just heard james clapper explain this discrepancy or at least intent to explain the discrepancy between intelligence officials saying the white house and the national security