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>> reporter: kate, good afternoon. we're just hearing the clapping that ted cruz is getting. he spoke to reporters for a little while ahead of this, answering questions about whether it was off key to be holding a second amendment rally in the wake of such a terrible shooting. he flipped that around and said that's on democrats. that the right answer is not to infringe on the second amendment rights of american citizens. he's been very aggressive in call thing a terrorist attack and accuses the obama administration of being weak, not calling it islamic radical terrorism. i pushed him on what s...

Year ago. >> you guys all agree with that, we're better off? >> absolutely. we've had a robust conversation about this. the president convened a panel to review the metta data program. the same panel came back and said, this program is probably not effective. we should get rid of it. it almost certainly tramples -- >> now more attacks will come because we can't surveil like we used to. the cia wading into social media with a twitter account? the first tweet, a little cheeky. quote, we can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet, end quote. robert, what do you make of it? >> it's ...

Them? why the outrage now? >> no, i don't think that's the case at all. there are many in the senate and the house, myself included, who have been urging for a strong reform, an end to collection. senator feinstein calls it the way she sees it. it's something that we all respect about her. when the revelations came out, or the allegations about tapping into angela merkel's cell phone, she was very critical of the nsa about that. she's obviously been willing to take to the house floor in unprecedented fashion to call the cia on the carpet about this. but, you know, where she has a different vie...