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Now to the fight over the secret surveillance by the nsa. a new poll shows the public growing more weary that the government could go too far in its surveillance programs and violate privacy rights. for the first time now, a majority, 56%, now say they are worried the u.s. monitoring programs will go too far. it's the first time it's gotten over 50%. that sentiment reflected last night on the floor when a polarized vote brought together a strange coalition of the very liberal and very conservative. the vote on that bill would have significantly curbed the nsa's data collection program. it was ...

Putin very glad to have a pawn in his chess game. joining me democratic congressman from colorado who was one of five bipartisan co-sponsors of the amendment. thanks for coming on this morning. i want to start with the bill itself. was there -- as i know the nsa was lobbying personally. keith alexander was on the floor. you had the national director of intelligence lobbying members of congress to defeat this amendment. did any of the case that they were making resonate with you at all? >> well, you expect there to be this kind of national security establishment lockdown on something like this....

Should be about people who are targets of investigation. why are we stockpiling at the nsa your calls, my calls, everybody else's information? it should be actual subjects of terrorist investigations. >> is there any middle ground for you on this? things got heated on the the floor in this back and forth. the nsa will argue they need this database it having that database speeds up when there is a target. is there a way of publicly assuring they don't look at the database that would make you more comfortable? is there middle ground here? i'm just curious. >> the way it's been reported, there's ...

Nsa would have a fisa court order, they could get the information quickly. we want to connect the dots between terrorist suspects. but there's no reason in the world that should pull in every american's private information. >> you came seven votes short. seems to me it isn't going to take much for you guys to tweak this amendment and get it to pass the house. what would be the tweak that you think you're going to do? is it what you just said, maybe creating a part of this amendment to force the phone companies to keep this data? because that's been another reasoning, explanation that the nsa h...