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Call us. we're here to help. . texas showdowns. stop and fisk. this week's must read. let's bring in the big three panel, editor for roll call. msnbc contributor and msnbc contributor and strategist jimmy williams. thanks if are being with us. let me start with you. take a listen to texas governor rick perry talking about democratic senator davis after her successful filibuster of a controversial bill in texas. >> she was the daughter of a single woman. she was a teenage mother herself. she managed to eventually graduate from harvard law school and serve in the texas senate.

With an individual in the united states need khalid uazani, individuals identified through the fisk were able to detect a nascent plotting to bomb the new york stock exchange. uazani had been providing information and support to this plot. the fbi disrupted and arrested these individuals. also david headley, the u.s. citizen living in chicago. responsible for the killing of over 160 people. also n. sa through coverage of an al qaeda affiliate it had terrorist found that he was working on a plot to bomb a danish newspaper office that had published the cartoon depiction shuns of the

Twice. is the way it works is -- there is an application made by the fbi under the statute to the fisa course. we calls it the fisk. they asked for and receive permission from the fisk under there to get reports that are relevant to a national security investigation they must demonstrate that it will be operated -- this is what covers intelligence gathering in the federal government. it is limited to tangible objection. these are like reports. it is dwight explicitly limited to things you could get in a --

Immediate reports and what we've done to fix it and remedy the ones that we reported. we also to congress under this program, the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence provide a semiannual report to the fisk and to congress assessing all of our compliance with the targeting and minimization procedures that are contained in the court order. bill: kind of information so many americans have been asking for for the past week now, ten days since this nsa story broke. we will not leave this hearing, but we do have to take a commercial. our apologies on that. m...

Any significant interpretations that the court makes of the 215 statute. if they make a ruling that is significant or issue an order that is significant in its interpretation, we provide those as well as the applications we made for those orders to the intelligence committee and to the judiciary committee. every 30 days, we are filing with the fisk, with the court, a report that describes how we implement this program. it includes a discussion you how we're applying the standard. it talks about the number of approved queries that we made against this database, the number of instances that the ...