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Now. senator bernie sanders. thanks very much for coming in. >> my pleasure. >> you wrote a pretty strong letter to general keith alexander, the head of the nsa, and you asked if the nsa has or is spying on members of congress right now. what prompted you to write this letter? >> to be very honest with you, i was on a couple of tv shows here in the state of vermont, and the journalists asked me, do you think the nsa is spying on you. and my initial thought was, of course not. but i thought about it, and i wasn't sure what the answer was. and being unsure about whether or not the nsa is spying ...

>> right. that's the issue is whether this form is simply an exemption from the requirements or as the archbishop suggests it's somehow an endorse m of it. i wonder if i can ask a question that's related but from a different direction about the hobby lobby case. that's a big chain of craft stores, 584 stores. the owners, it's a privately-owned company, they want to be excluded from providing some forms of contraception to their employees. why should clerks or janitors at hobby lobby not get the same rights to health care that clerks and janitors at macy's or safeway get? >> well, it's a fair q...

Implementation of the health care law be the center of attention. >> because as you know, referring to the debt ceiling, it has to be raised within the next few weeks. the president says he's not negotiate. ing on that. he. s a clean bill that raises the nation's debt ceiling without any concessions, without any change of policy. is this a similar kind of fight that you say was political malpractice as far as the shutdown of the u.s. government was concerned back in october? >> wolf, i lost your volume there, but i wanted to say this. every member of the house understands that defaulting on ob...

Sisters of the poor be left out in the cold? >> that's a fair question. let's bring in jeffrey toobin, our senior legal analyst. jeffrey, explain the law here. what is the issue that's going on? >> as i understand the issue, and i'd love to have you clarify this, the little sisters of the poor do not have to pay for contraception or insurance at all. all they have to do is file a form. a one-page form that says we are a religious order, we object to contraception, what's wrong with that? why shouldn't they have to just file a form and be done with it? >> fair question, thanks so much. let me t...

>> reporter: so an unrestrained al qaeda back at the top in iraq, and unrestrained al qaeda across the border in syria. thousands of foreign fighters also in that immediate region and the issue at hand, wolf, is whether this kind of new capability will be able potentially to strike out at western targets and the united states that is a major concern. >> as you know, barbara, the u.s. pulled out all of its troops because the iraqi government of prime minister nuri al maliki refused an agreement that would have allowed any residual troops to be immune from iraqi prosecution. that was a demand na...