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Conversations. >> john: self-reporting internal audit. congressman kucinich you know and you came out very strongly on this topic the other day that a lot of these violations were not appropriately reported to the foreign intelligence surveillance court and other entities that are supposed to oversee. >> congress largely kept in the dark. the foreign intelligence surveillance court kept in the dark. apparently the president isn't aware. and so when you have are the fourth amendment at stake here. and by reference the first amendment, we have an obligation here. it appears that the nsa has gone...

Of research. >> it takes years and also takes risks. one of the interesting pushbacks on the articles today come from people who say the budget is still $28 billion. that is a lot, more than what any other country invests, but the problem is, if america wants to continue to lead in investing in science, they have to continue their budget. and if we cut the amount of projects that we fund, we are not going to find the needle in the hay stack and the way to make the big discoveries, you have to make the investment wider. >> not the mention the expenditures over a wide variety. sam stein, very im...

An embassy? that's a significant move. >> right. >> difficult and that sends a message that we can't predict these facilities. >> that's what concerns me. feels like a reactive response to these kind of threats after benghazi doing what the president said which was my number one intention is to make sure that we are safe going forward and it doesn't feel like that happened if we are doing unprecedented shutdown of all these embassies. you count me among those conservatives who are are skeptical of the nsa and droning. they say they need a hay stack i'm pretty protective of my hay as an america...

Know what it takes to close an embassy? that's a significant move. >> right. >> difficult and that sends a message that we can't predict these facilities. >> that's what concerns me. feels like a reactive response to these kind of threats after benghazi doing what the president said which was my number one intention is to make sure that we are safe going forward and it doesn't feel like that happened if we are doing unprecedented shutdown of all these embassies. you count me among those conservatives who are are skeptical of the nsa and droning. they say they need a hay stack i'm pretty protec...

The leaks? >> i think it's dead right. general alexander recognized that leaks that indicate anything about the way in which we surveil adversaries leads them immediately to change their tactics and get more alert. i think one of the things general alexander died effectively is demonstrate specifically that both the program to collect telephone billing data and the program to have nonamerican e-mail intercepted are very valuable programs that have led to concrete cases and disruptions of terrorist activities. >> but what about the argument that when you collect so much data, as he said, you wa...