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Whether he's conducting surveillance on americans. edward snowden came forward because this was entirely in secret and government officials brought in front of congress and took an oath on the bible, boldfacely lied about the existence of the program. >> are you talking about general alexander or clapper? >> both. alexander and clapper in different points. clapper on the media interviews. alexander also on the hill. and so you have these moments where the president has got to understand -- he does understand, of course, that we need to be able to keep our information private and secret but the...

The director of national intelligence has taken the rare step of declassifying more details of a government data collection program as a response to media reports. at the same time, james clapper continues to criticize the leaks, calling them reckless, but says collection of internet data is authorized by congress, strictly supervised and cannot target a u.s. citizen. let me bring in "washington post" reporter emily hywell and cnbc washington chief correspondent and writer for "washington times" john harwood. a good day to both of you. john, let's step back a moment. how big is this surveillan...