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Data held by the government even though there's a lot of protections and standards and few people have access to it it makes me nervous that the government has a big trove of data. so i always thought it should be left with an independent third party or left with phone companies. the problem with the bill the house passed is there's no limit hon the data retention by the phone companies so they could say we're only going to keep it two weeks, a month or six weeks and then it is of no intelligence value. that's where we're trying to find areas of compromise. >> going to turn to what you voted o...

There have been a lot of gains and some reversals. we'll talk about you this and with me is michael weis the co-author of "isis inside the army of terror" and with us live in orlando retired general mark hertling who commanded 28,000 troops as part of the u.s. task force in iraq from 2007 to 2009. so general, let me just start with the win and loss and if you have to put the metric to it, what is happening in this battle against isis? because it doesn't sound like there's a lot of whof winning g on. >> i like your second terminology when you talked about gains and reverses. i refuse to let my ...

They are looking at how much of a role he had in isis. the big question is what is his real name. some lawmakers are urging caution especially when it comes to balancing a risk of a mission like this against the reward. >> this was an extraordinary risk. if one of our people was captured or we lost a special force. tough questions to answer. i think notwithstanding the success of the operation, we have to ask those questions. was the intelligence value that we hope to gain worth this kind of risk. >> reporter: other lawmakers are coming out of the administration praising this. >> many of us ha...

The risk to reward. >> if we lost some of our special forces there would be tough questions to answer if it was worth it. i think notwithstanding the success of the operation, we still will have to ask those questions. was the intelligence value we hoped to gain and are gaining worth this kind of risk. >> reporter: other lawmakers are praising the initiative from the administration. here is what the chairman of the house intelligence committee had to say. >> we have wanted this tactic because this is a better way to gather intelligence. it takes guts for the administration to put this action t...

Still are going to have to ask those questions. was the intelligence value that we hoped to gain and the fact that we are gaining worth this kind of risk? >> and as those questions continue to swirl, fred the white house will be briefing members of congress this week. fred? >> so still question marks about what kind of intelligence was recovered, but we know from officials that they did grab all of the communication stuff. so lawmakers, are they expressing doubt that there is really value in any of this intelligence recovered, and they don't even know what intelligence was recovered? >> well i...