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Gowdy said it's no more than 30 people weik have to look at in e f.b.i. and nsa that could be responsible for this and we have to look at whatever powers we have legally to confront them and get this information from them.ro i want to quickly before we run out of time discuss the fact was a time when we kind of put an end to a lot of this. after 9/11 we understood there isn't any privacy anymore. sow that tension between privacy and national securityiv isn't as used to be. and we recognize we don't have privacy. but now with the re-upping of the section 72 of the fisa act, is that more in jeop...

Program. >> you know, good for him. but i'm just saying. there would be impeachment hearings underway if bush and cheney were doing the sort of data collection. >> but they were, and there weren't impeachment hearings. these are ten-year-old programs. >> i think it's since 9/11, there's been a lot more tolerance. the government doing what it takes from republicans and from democrats, and saying we will give up a certain amount of our own freedoms in order to ensure our safety. >> a liberal upper east side and stop everybody and they will say exactly -- >> and let's remember, the foreign intell...

Plan, the government is going to hover out our trillions and trillions of e-mails and it's just a placebo press conference so it goes away. >> the appropriation for the nsa came up on the house floor and only passed by seven votes. >> bolling, we're waiting for your moment here. the obama cold shower, go ahead. >> notes. i took pages and pages of notes. he went through the four-point plan. i found it very interesting twice he said we have to strike balance between security and freedom, at one point he said liberty. he's clearly violating the constitution. he also talked about 215 of the f fisa...

Willie. what's happened in the public domain is the press accounts have conflated the verizon story which is very comprehensive and does touch americans' phone bills with the prism story, which is very focused, has to do with foreign communications. let me give you an example. a terrorist in pakistan communicating with a terrorist in yemen, via a chat room, the only thing american about that communication is the fact that it's hosted on a server in redman, washington. this is not about going after americans' information. it's about going after forp information that is resident, that is located...

The united states. >> how has president obama changed the nsa program? obviously it's a bit of a comedy. it's actually a farce of a comedy when you have right wing talkers who supported george bu bush's program who now say this is a grave threat to america's national security and left wing talkers who thought george bush's program was a grave threat to national security but now support the president, this president? is there a big difference between the two programs? >> yeah. actually, president obama didn't change president bush's program. president bush changed president bush's program. the ...