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There are other stories besides syria, believe it or not. we have new information tonight about how the federal government has been tracking the bad guys and the good guys along with them. chief correspondent katherine is with us. america's phone records under section 216, the so-called provision of the patriots act. according to intelligence officials it pushes for greater transparency show as greater collection problem within the nsa from may 2006 until january 2000 9d. in an effort to prioritize investigations, an nsa program cross-referenced a so-called ee

Reading this morning a lengthy story in may 2006 that laid the whole thing out about nsa and telephone records. it's been in the public domain. his claims about what he could do from his desk and reading emails and all of that, much doubt has been cast on that. a lot of new what he said wasn't true. i think this is much ado about not very much and not very much of a guy. he apparently what he said was new was not true. my view we shouldn't be paying so much attention to him. >> i disagree. whistleblowers should be protected but this was no whistleblower. this guy is dangerous. also there may b...

Jonathan, what's your response? >> i wouldn't say that edward snowden is a dissident youth. david brooks' column resonated with me. he writes along these lines quite frequently about the atomization of society, about how young people coming up today don't have a sense of community, mutual responsibility. and so in that vein, i thought that the david brooks was dead on. i don't view edward snowden as a hero, but i don't view him as a traitor, as well. in order to be ate a traitor, you have to reveal some huge state secret that endangers the country. as walter pinkus in the wost "washington post...

Past from what they knew about them. i don't think anybody knew publicly how widespread the data collection is. but how is prism, how are prism and blarney different? that's a separate program. >> well first on the database program, you're right, this isn't new. this is "u.s.a. today" article from may 2006. i remember i was on capitol hill when this came out. the headline is, nsa has massive database of americans' phone calls. this story has been around eight years and it's been carefully overseen by the courts and by congress. as for the internet programs, there you need a particularized warr...

Let's face it. many of us have felt like punching a colleague at some point. most of us go only as far as imagining fist striking jaw, but we're not all so restrained. just ask politicians in the czech republic. >> this fight occurred in may 2006, i think two weeks before general elections in the czech republic. it was quite a highly politically charged atmosphere. >> and it's about to become even more heated. the deputy prime minister takes the stand at a conference and strikes his health minister. >> seemed like a conventional boring speech, and then excitement. >> no one knew it was going t...