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All of that makes it difficult for lindsey graham to come on your program and say, when it comes to the nsa program, i understand it, there are checks and balances, i know about it. >> if clapper under oath makes this statement in response to the senator's answer and you don't trust that he was being truthful, how in the world can we have the dni, the highest ranking intelligence officer in our nation, how can we trust when he goes to work every day? this one's under oath? >> this is a real problem. i don't trust what the intelligent -- what the white house is telling us about how the talking ...

We do collect data not the content. the only way you can get content is if a judge issues a warrant allowing the government to do that. there are checks and balances. >> you mentioned benghazi. the american people want to have faith and trust in our government. have you benghazi, the irs targeting. >> you have attorney general holder asking about potential prosecution of the media? he said no. and now you have clapper. i don't know how you get around what clapper said. i was a defense lawyer, i don't know how i would spin that. he simply didn't tell the truth on it. >> from my point of view, i...

We're now doing with this new program that's monitored a lot more than the mail program. >> every piece of mail? >> whatever they want. there's an authority, the mail registration program or something like that. they had a small piece in the wall street journal today. >> the tough one was everybody. was the mail system everybody? >> pretty much people who communicated. that's what they did, they wrote letters in ancient times. and so we have had a system for decades and we have one now, but it's much better supervised than anything was under the post office in the old days. supervised by the c...

We're now doing with this new program that's monitored a lot more than the mail program. >> every piece of mail? >> whatever they want. there's an authority, the mail registration program or something like that. they had a small piece in the wall street journal today. >> the tough one was everybody. was the mail system everybody? >> pretty much people who communicated. that's what they did, they wrote letters in ancient times. and so we have had a system for decades and we have one now, but it's much better supervised than anything was under the post office in the old days. supervised by the c...

The terrorists that we're following has made a phone call to your number before we can monitor content. >> that's an entirely different question. >> whether the administration we want to have confidence in is playing it fast and loose. >> i totally agree with you, i think the problem we have here -- the president himself, blamed the attack on a video in a spontaneous riot that was illogical. there was nothing other than evidence of a coordinated terrorist attack. you have a lady taking the fifth amendment. have you jim rosen's situation, the attorney general said he had no knowledge of a pendi...