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The cross over between some of the immigration debate and what we are talking about now with the surveillance program. there have been questions raised over the last weekend or so about the immigration bill and issues of privacy and concerns from some of your colleagues that the expansion of a e~verify system that exists in the immigration bill right now that is working its way in the senate is an intrusion on privacy and is in fact the way for the federal government to create a national id database. what is the truth on that, senator marco rubio? >> that is not the intent of it and that's not...

Let's say hypothetically osama bin laden had been making phone calls into some state in the united states i think all americans would want to know about it and primarily want to know who it is he's talking to because we are sure he's not conducting strock transactions. on the other hand people are concerned, this new information that the government collects metta data, which is meaningful stuff, it tells you the position of that person, what floor in a pulling they are. there is concern about that too. how do you balance those two things? it's difficult. there are safeguard built into the prog...

Percentage over the next 18 months. so i look at this, and i see relatively promising situation. unfortunately, the taliban is still a strong and to tent enemy, but they're not winning. jenna: michael, it's great to have you on. we didn't get to the topic of whether or not afghanistan is somehow a model for syria, because we have both russian and american involvement in afghanistan, we've seen that in the past and whether or not that's actually happening in syria and playing itself out. so we hope to have you back and have even longer to talk about that, michael. great to see you. thank you so...

A day where we're continuing to debate the nsa and the big surveillance program, we can't lose sight as to why we even have that program to begin with, and that's 9/11. that's also the reason we went to war in afghanistan, but we certainly don't talk a lot about the war anymore. so we wanted to take a moment to do that today. there's some big announcements out of afghanistan today. security throughout that country is now primarily in the hands of afghan forces with america and nato allies playing a supporting role. again, a big announcement today about that change. reports suggest this clears ...

Cost effective way to verify that the person that they are hiring is legally here. if you don't do that, if we don't have a way of doing that you'll have that magnet for illegal immigration still there. jenna: will you sponsor an amendment to the bill that will better protect against it becoming a national database? >> i think there is an amendment filed already that actually would prohibit, make it wrong for them to do that not just say this is not the purpose of it, that is the way the bill reads right now. i think that could go even further and say you're prohibited from using this for othe...