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Last night, is he closing the door on the fact that -- is he proving to the american people that everything is on the up and up here? >> it's a tough call. on the one hand, you know, it would be -- it's logical this program is effective. you're collecting so much data that if it didn't turn out that it resolved or prevented any terrorism attacks, it wouldn't make any sense. on the other hand, if you look -- if you step back and you look at the numbers, you begin to wonder how effective it actually truly is. general alexander said 50 potential terrorist attacks were thwarted. ten of them could ...

Chairman. but at the same time, not transcripts of this particular gentleman not being put forth. so that we could get a complete story. all i want to do is make sure that the american people have the complete story. >> you know, you're a very humble guy, congressman. you're the ranking member on that committee, the ranking democrat. i got to tell you, we cover the news every hour here on msnbc. this story has been popping around here for more and a month the big scandal at irs. man you're so much inside that you don't realize the noise that has been created by this crazy charge of scandal. so...

Doing a better job than they were last week from a purely political matter, but it seems they have a way to go. >> they seem a little slow. we're finding out now there was no irs scandal. they could have told us that the first day. and now we're getting around a pretty good defense. here is the president, by the way. he called the nsa programs transparent and said i am not dick cheney. he pronounced it differently. let's take a listen. >> should this be transparent in some way? >> it is transparent. that's why we set up the fisa court. some people say, well, obama was this raving liberal bef...

Radio host dick wiles questioning, as he puts it, the president's validity. >> well, all you guys are rounding up and deporting the illegal immigrants, any chance the house may actually pursue barack obama's phony identification papers? >> well, you know -- >> that's the original scandal, congressman. that's the original scandal. >> in november, people should have voted against him in november and i'm afraid that that wouldn't get to the supreme court where it ought to get. >> but if we know that they're lying about all these other things, why not go back and say well maybe the first scandal w...

Boy, this is crocodile tears. quote, i am deeply disappointed that ranking member cummings has decided to broadly disseminate and post online a 205-page transcript that will serve as a road map for irs officials to navigate investigative criminals with congress. after unsuccessfully trying to convince the american people that will irs officials in washington did not play a role in inappropriate scrutiny of tea party groups and declaring on national television that the case irs was targeting was solved and congress should move on, this looks like flailing. he seems to be implying something that...