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Saying, and this is not a breach of your privacy. if you're talking to a foreign terrorist, this tool can be very, very helpful -- >> can i ask you -- i'm sorry to interrupt you on this, senator. because i want to really -- i want to pin this down. do you have definitive evidence that because of some of those adjustments in surveillance, that is the reason why clues were missed here? this specific case? >> no, we don't. it is one of many tools that we have. the question is, how do we -- should we be compromising ourselves, putting ourselves in more at a disadvantage in learning these type of t...

These people are, otherwise they wouldn't be releasing this information to the public. they'd just go and arrest them. and that of course is quite alarming, given what we saw play out in paris just a few weeks ago. >> yes, it certainly is. paul cruickshank, we know you'll follow this story. i want to go back to the san bernardino attack. the question now being asked, were lapses in intelligence a factor in this attack? could authorities have done something more to prevent it? i want to bring in republican senator dan coots of indiana, the member of the select committee on intelligence. he's ...

Sleeper cells. we have a number of cases, many, many cases, where the fbi is in surveillance of individuals that we are attempting to watch to make sure they're not going to do an evil act like what happened in san bernardino, but we can't -- we're almost overwhelmed in terms of providing the necessary surveillance. we've compromised some tools, frankly, which i and a number of us on the intelligence committee opposed. but unfortunately, we lost those tools that would give us the opportunity to better find out what these connections were. not after the attack, but hopefully before, so we could...

Bergdahl in his only interview explain why he left his base and what it was like to be held by the taliban for five years. i want to bring in senator james inhofe, senior member the senate armed soim eed services committ. senator, thank you for being with us. you've actually said that bowe bergdahl should be charged with desertion. that's one charge he's facing. he's also facing another charge that would carry a penalty of lifetime in prison. i know you've been briefed on this podcast. in it we know he is alleging leadership failure in his unit and he left his post to draw attention to that. d...