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Civil liberties and you en a critic of george w. bush and of barack obama on this issue. your reaction to his defense of the program today? >> i thought was curious. i'm not too sure what questions he was answering. they are not the questions being posed. first of all that the notion that these programs are modest is rather laughable. what the government is creating are massive data banks that will effectively make transparent the communications and twists of citizens that nor the charged with any crime. if you look at the telephone companies they were demanding every single phone call made by...

Probably a wise decision? >> i think so. i think it's a very good strategy. initially law enforcement was probably thinking if they released these photographs, maybe somebody would recognize these two individuals. however, mark furman hit on an interesting point. he talked about video imaging and identification technology. that technology is used by the boston police department and every major police department. what we can basically do, we can take an image of an individual, which i think is what they are doing here, and we can run them through a database. if they have ever been arrested anyw...

Probably a wise decision? >> i think so. i think it's a very good strategy. initially law enforcement was probably thinking if they released these photographs, maybe somebody would recognize these two individuals. however, mark furman hit on an interesting point. he talked about video imaging and identification technology. that technology is used by the boston police department and every major police department. what we can basically do, we can take an image of an individual, which i think is what they are doing here, and we can run them through a database. if they have ever been arrested anyw...

Background checks already do work. we already have rules and say mental health statistics need to come from the states to the data banks. the ones most p-- i think a lot of things where they could be improved, but none of this would have changed the outcome. the only thing that would have potentially changed the outcome is something that so many people don't want to hear and that's self-defense. that if someone will had a concealed carry and might have been armed they might have had a fighting chance. they might not have saved everybody, but might have been able to save some of those. >> senat...

cane is back, he has a column for theblaze.com. an all-boy panel this morning. >> you're used to that. >> you know what? i am getting kind of used to it a little bit. our starting point this morning is day two of john edwards' criminal trial. it's going to get under way in about 2 1/2 hours. and back on the stand, his former aide, andrew young. he is the key witness for the prosecution. the issue is did john edwards inappropriately use campaign funds to hide his mistress, rielle hunter? the prosecution called edwards a master manipulator, saying this. if the affair went public, it wo...