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After 9/11. and when all of americans were saying how does this happen, well, the fact that a phone call from a known terrorist location came in to the united states, the nsa could only get half of that equation. so we needed something to fill this gap. this was the program and i think clearly through all of this turmoil and on of the spotlight, people found out i guess it is a huge degree of oversight on this particular program where you didn't even see this in other parts of the government. so that's how we got here. i do think the president is tugged. he certainly is listening to voices who...

We'll figure out where to put this data. what does that tell you about the president's intent? >> again, it took i think a long time to come to the conclusion where we needed to come out and say this is a legal program, yes it is important to national security. the reason we got here is there was a gap, right after 9/11 when all of americans are saying how does this happen? the fact that a phone call from a known terrorist location came into the united states, they could only get half of that eindication, we needed something to fill that gap. this was the program and i think clearly through al...