Objevious Question News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Government in what could be a potentially criminal and illegal and unconstitutional way spying and surveilling millions and millions of americans on an ongoing basis. and i think any effort to change the conversation away from that, that potential crime against millions and millions of people and, too, a question about the person who has disclosed the crimes, is an attempt to say people who expose potential crimes are the real criminals. it's an attempt, in a sense, to create an orwellian definition of crime. >> you talk about the fourth amendment and i want to get to that. a yes or no from yo...

Exactly that. >> that's right. the director of national intelligence james clapper went before congress and perjured himself and said mass surveillance wasn't happening in the united states when he was asked a direct question. the same thing for the head of the nsa. at one level you could argue that someone like edward snowden saw these officials perfect injuring themselves before the united states congress and went forward with information in one of the only ways that he could to call out blatant crime. you can find that videotape. it's out there. you can see james clapper lying to congress. ...

About finding that balance between national security and privacy and something the president welcomes the debate. he reiterated that again today. we heard the president talk about this whenever he's asked about whether or not the united states is doing too much, going too far in terms of trying to gather information, whether it's the recent controversy with verizon or other new developments where information was being gleaned from the web, the president had acknowledged that there needs to be this balance between privacy and security and, again, that he welcomes the debate. that's the word fro...

For his room and board and just existence right now. take a listen. is "the guardian" helping him in any way to pay for room and board? >> no, it never has. and i actually asked that question when i first spoke with him about how he was financing his stay at the hotel and his answer was very convincing he was making a great deal of money and has been working for private contractors in excess of around $200,000, in excess of that. >> the big question now, brooke, if snowden is backed into a corner and he feels he needs to take drastic action or else he'll be extradited to the y united states an...

Oppose it. and it will be tyranny. >> and this just in to cnn, the department of justice has launched a preliminary investigati investigation. law enforcement official says the fbi has begun its investigation and plans to search snowden's home and computers and interview his girlfriend, co-workers, friends, family, the list goes on. jake tapper following the story very, very closely. you, tapper, tell me what he said? >> we talked to glenn greenwald, we were the first to interview him last week and we talked to him again today about exactly where snowden is. trying to get to the bottom of his ...