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U.s. intelligence community as heavily involved in collecting information damaging to hillary clinton an helpful to donald trump. now sources would not confirm which specific conversations were intercepted or the content of those discussions due to the classified nature of u.s. intelligence collection programs. >> we have been very careful throughout reporting this story going back weeks of specifying exactly what's been confirmed and what's not been confirmed. help explain to our viewer what is investigators still cannot verify at this point. >> one of the officials stressed to cnn, that they...

Collection of foreign call intercepts so they have information to seek, to verify some of the alleged conversations described in the dossier. now, sources would not confirm which specific conversations were intercepted or the content of those discussions due to the classified nature of u.s. intelligence collection programs. u.s. intelligence officials emphasize that the conversations they have now verified were solely between foreign nationals including those in or tied to the russian government. intercepted during routine intelligence gathering. but some of those individuals involved in the i...

Snowden documents and has a reporting relationship with glenn greenwald. >> when it comes to specific stories about the specific collection programs, about specific targets, these aren't decided by me. these are decided by newspapers. >> you see the part of this and for a lay audience looking on, they know that this came from you. the bulk release to the journalists came from you. they are guessing that you had decisions to make within what you had access to, so then they hear you saying, i didn't put that out, the journalists did. >> right. that's a fair question. anyone can second guess my j...

Endorse greater open mess and transparency how these collection programs work. yes, he has punted this to congress to help him solve this problem of balancing national security and privacy and civil rights, but you know, he is not surprised. he is just putting up here a very artful defense. and i was very impressed by the thoughtfulness of the speech and the attempt to balance, split the difference if you will between the civil liberties community and the nsa. thatthat is a polly that will probably make no one happy. jon: lauren, you probably saw the columbia journalism review, did that survey...

Tragedy here in the united states. it's really the first opportunity we had to look back at these ten or 11 years and say did we get the balance right. personally, i'm told the president is going to talk about reducing the pervasiveness of some of the surveillance programs, the met data, collection programs. i think that's important, personally. this is the first time an awful lot of americans thought about the fisa court, which is an important work in protecting civil liberties, but few know about the secret court. i think there's things we can do there to make americans more comfortable abou...