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Americans' information. lisa page, peter strzok are they still allowed to access information. do we have people that hate the president allowed to access information about the president or the president's supporters. >> bill: last question on the big data companies, where are you on that now? i don't think people don't know people are watching when they go online. >> with regard to the private sharing of data, so when you log on and do a search on google or anything and search for shoes and later on shoes pop-up, most acknowledge that's how the internet works. are people giving too much data

Conversation with robert mcdowell, the former fcc commissioner who made the point before 2015, we didn't have these rules and it created facebook and amazon and google. why does it matter? >> well, and the answer to that is that we had several instances where people were starting to test the boundaries of net neutrality. the best example is at&t blocking facetime. and once people started to realize, once companies, especially as they integrate from being just an isp to being an isp and a content provider, now you have a strong economic innocecentive to provide your content for free and your co...

In the middle east or defense spending. the u.s. role in fighting isis and just how the u.s. can best win the global war on terror. cnn's chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is here to help us separate fact from fiction. jim, let's start with donald trump who suggested shutting down the internet. he then clarified to talk about shutting it down in parts of the arab world to help defeat and destroy isis. is that a reasonable proposal? >> well, jake, you heard senator ted cruz talk about carpet bombing isis. this might be the internet or the technological equivalent of carpet bombi...

Why don't you tell our viewers here how you came to be watching -- it's an amusing anecdote. how you came to be watching hardcore porn with justice sandra day o'connor. you start a chapter with that anecdote so don't fault me for bringing it up. >> it's part of the book. so the term i was clerking was one of the very first internet porn cases and this was 1996 it was right when the internet was getting started. and a lot of the justices didn't know what this internet thing was. and so the court librarians did training sessions to show the justices this is how the internetworks. and they paired...

We have this rule, is that if i send an e-mail to you from dallas to new york, it very well can be routed through yemen. i mean, this is the way the internet works. so it was already taken into accounts. that were american communications, and those are 46,000 of the supposedly illegally intercepted material that's coming from stuff we've got overseas. that then is removed from the system. nobody after an initial analysis, nobody looks at it, it's not kept. the court made no finding about that. in fact it said i'm not going to deal with these what are called scts, single communication transacti...