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Wednesday, house arms services chairman buck mckeon spoke about a briefing that detailed the damage done to the u.s. by nsa leaker edward snowden. >> no matter what opinion the american people hold of the nsa's data collection programs, they would be shocked and outraged to learn that a substantial amount of the information has nothing to do with the nsa. the damage he has done to our military and national defense programs is not the mark of a whistleblower. he has given our enemies an edge and put our war fighters at risk. >> you have to look at this. a high-speed police chase in north caroli...

People being hurt by the president's signature health care law and democrats will push in the other direction and move on to other legislative issues like put focus on immigration. 2014 will definitely be a decisive year in that way. jon: all right. we're glad you're here to begin watching it with us. it will be an interesting election year. rebecca berg, from the "washington examiner", shira center from "roll call." thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. jenna: some new details today on nsa leaker edward snowden telling "the washington post" his mission is already accomplished letting th...

Hold. now the government does have time for an appeal, jenna. jenna: and, peter what has the reaction been from the justice department? >> reporter: jenna, they say this is one ruling from one judge but that in fisa court, 35 rulings from 15 judges have said these data collection programs are okay. the justice department officially says we've seen the opinion and are studying it. we believe the program is constitutional as previous judges have found. we have no further comment at this time. the nsa leaker, edward snowden, is out with comments. he says, those secret court, those secret fisa cou...

Under fire again for its spying programs. today the obama administration declassified and released three documents outlining the phone and internet data collection programs. right before that agency's deputy director faced tough questions on capitol hill about edward snowden. >> for a 29-year-old school dropout to come in and take out massive, massive amounts of data, it is obvious that there weren't adequate controls. has anyone been fired? >> not yet. >> who double checked snowden? >> there are checks at multiple levels. >> obviously failed. >> outfront tonight general hayden who ran the nsa...

And likely getting him those asylum travel documents. the fact that assange is front and center has apparently irritated the ecuadorian president among others, harris. >> harris: one of the points that cannot be missed is the fact that edward snowden brought to the surface so much information about spying on americans that we didn't know before. and now i understand some senators are demanding answers about that nsa surveillance. >> well, harris, this letter from 26 senators, the vast majority are democrats. demanding that the nation's intelligence chief explain his understanding of the patrio...