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Slipping into defeatism. he seemed pretty calm to me. >> he did. he has a quiet confidence. he is down by more than we acknowledged but hope springs eternal with every candidate we've ever covered. if you can see yourself to 270 electoral votes. and right now he has a poll from new hampshire showing him closer. they've always went a little bullish on that one district in maine. i think the data wouldn't give him as much confidence as he seem to have but he didn't seal anything but comfortable. we've seen that with plenty of candidates we've covered when the data is like this. >> if i were him,...

Place. is that fair? >> in part. so it's very clear that we need new types of collection and we, frankly, need to update our policies and laws, both in what we can authorize and then you get into the question of what you should authorize. the challenge in this, the way that's portrayed is many of the things that have been most troubling to people have not been about stopping cyber attacks, it's been about going after traditional terrorism. and some of the collection of data wouldn't aid in this other task. the challenge -- >> you're gathering all these phone calls to find the al qaeda conversa...

The head of the nsa and the head of cyber command as you point out, says that the thing people don't understand is that if you want us to protect your bank accounts, your on-line accounts, from cyber attacks, from piracy, we have to have some way of getting into them in the first place. is that fair? >> in part. so it's very clear that we need new types of collection and we, frankly, need to update our policies and laws, both in what we can authorize and then you get into the question of what you should authorize. the challenge in this, the way that's portrayed is many of the things that have ...

They were going to stop publishing information about mass layoffs. if we get rid of the data pointing to a problem, maybe the data wouldn't look so bad. the obvious move is to get rid of it. this was a hall mark of the george w. bush administration and it appears to be one of the things that mr. romney liked very much about the george w. bush administration. it at least appears to be one of the things that he's promising to bring back. you don't like the data presented? kill the report. after the totally unimpeachable ly did a report concluded that romney's plan would be great for rich people ...

Once it included something very politically inconvenient. the bush administration had a habit of doing this. if you don't like the data, get rid of the data. earlier they were face wd a new report from their own education department showing that charter school kids were falling behind public school kids. how do you deal with your own administration's data on underperforming charter schools? you cut back on the data that you collect about charter schools. the bush administration just announced they would be collecting less data going forward. in 2003, after the bush administration labor departm...