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Something. you know you hit an unusual circumstance. but you know, the -- other reported thing here is they stopped briefing. the white house acknowledged stopped briefing entirety of the congress in 2011. feinste feinstein, chambliss, mike rogers, they have been getting briefings more recently on the programs. we saw representative rogers and the rest of congress being critical. >> the -- question for me is why this needed to be secret. robert gibbs said what i think is correct. you know, you need rule of law. you need a system for protecting classified documents. but you will get more respec...

Some of the things that he was thinking to somebody. and we need to get ahold of that ahead of time. >> governor ridge, what is your experience particularly with the virginia tech shooting aftermath? what does it tell you about where we need to start reacting particularly to senator feinste feinstein's comment? >> i think everyone has really focused on a word you used. i think the country needs to have it. let's have the conversation. let's start with the act and pull back to the actors. there's a profile here. and in the cho case, it was really rather dramatic. the privacy laws intersected wi...

Season, say that -- not to admit that it was terrorism because it would undercut the argument that the obama team had decimated al qaeda. >> and i wonder if senator feinstein's comments can be considered unequivocal, that the white house had no involvement. who can unequivocally say that? >> i don't think she can know that without the investigation. >> i don't know. >> well, the white house has said on the record that they only changed one word. but that doesn't mean that other parts of the executive branch, which are not the white house, could have changed these talking points as they went th...

>> you know, i don't -- david gregory, i don't get it. and what i don't get is how you could remove a couple of words from talking points that completely change the meaning of those talking points? if you're going remove a couple of details to protect assets on the ground, that's one thing. but if you say it's a video on youtube instead of an al qaeda attack, that is radically different and really, and you went right to it yesterday, really troubling. >> well, and i think what rodgers and feinstein do to underscore that is say, look, who are we protecting? what is this idea of protecting sourc...

Be said in a declassified setting and that susan rice, the criticism is that she took what they handed her and didn't challenge it, which her defenders, dianne feinstein on "meet the press" and others say that is not unfair. you're pilaring this woman. feinste feinstein's word, character assassination, to suggest she would read anything other than the unclassified version of this. a lot of people were asking where was hillary clinton that weekend? she knew better than to go out in the middle of this. they gave susan rice this assignment. she went on all five shows. it was supposed to be an imp...