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The companies have a lot of room for maneuver. so there's a five-year gap between the time that microsoft joins and the time that apple, which is the last of them join. apparently dropbox is said to be coming soon on these slides. clearly there are technical issues they have to solve, but there are ways that the companies can negotiate the access and the conditions. >> do you think that disclosing the contours of this program in a way that you have interferes with the ability of this program to continue or helps anybody who wants to evade this form of surveillance evade it? >> it's a matter of...

And to be a good cia director, john brennan's going to have to be a very aggressive director. that's a place, boy, they are hard to manage. if they don't like you, they start gossiping. pretty soon there's rumors all over town about you're in trouble. my sense is that brennan who comes out of the analytical side wants analysis to be strong. i think his biggest theme coming into the hearings, didn't get much attention yesterday, is he wants the cia to return to its traditional role of collecting intelligence, of having secret, well-hidden spies overseas gathering the information that's going to...

Detected. >> reporter: the fbi is analyzing the device. the next version of the underwear bomb that fizzled in 2009 worn by al qaeda terrorist umar farouk abdulmutalleb. >> they are adapting. the last one and the increasing sophistication of the device they're using. >> reporter: the cia is adapting in yemen scoring a huge coupe. >> we don't have to worry about the ied or the would be bomber. >> reporter: sources say it was never a worry but a cia source, an asset who brought the bomb out of yemen, infiltrating al qaeda would be a break through. >> this is something we've been trying to do for...

>> congress needs to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance without drama and without delay and without needs to pass this without drama and delay and without linking it to some other ideological side issues. we've been through this before, remember? we've seen this movie. we don't need to see it again. the time for self-inflicted wounds to our economy has to be over. >> let's go straight to cnn congressional correspondent kate bouldan. kate, this is a surprising turn-around. what are you hearing there? what made them decide to make this move? >> jessica ...

Have been there, when you read in the newspaper, talking to people, now do they not only trust us but they don't particularly like us. you have the problem with the military and the isi and the government. and the situation is deteriorating rather quickly. i think you are suggesting it would take quite some time. it seems to have a more urgent element to it. >> it does have a urgent element. and we have very few options that are any good. in fact, we are in a precarious situation in afghanistan because pakistan can cut off the supply lines from the south and it could become a real mess almost ...