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Wiretap, and the legal hoops and hurdles we had to jump through as law enforcement are enormous, rightfully so because if the government is going to surveil your calls in realtime, we want lots of protections in place. none of those protections apply to russian intelligence agencies or other foreign intelligence services. >> we do want those protections. we do want to know that our government doesn't eavesdrop on our phone calls except someone else might be doing so. >> yeah, and they have things that we don't have that the people who are now going to prosecute an impeachment case don't have. ...

An explosive story developing in the nation's capital. the united states government obtaining a secret order requiring verizon to turn over phone records of thousands of americans. joe johns, have we heard from the white house this morning? >> christine, a carefully worded statement from a senior administration official without confirming or denying the existence of the order, but pointing out that this document doesn't eavesdrop, it's just for call data only. the sort described in the guardian article has been a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats as it allows counte...