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Father, about meeting with these young men in chicago that he met with, and about his promise and commitment to help young men of color which he has received so much criticism that he hasn't done enough for. he said in that -- i would imagine he did as well, had become used to these statistics, these numbers about these young men falling at the bottom of -- or at the top nend depending on how you want to put it for unemployment, for encars ration and for dropping out of school. >> the worst part is we become numb to these statistics. we're not surprised by them. we take them as the norm. we ju...

Arguments that assist them in later deliberations when they're looking at these various cases. do you think cameras would disrupt that dynamic. >> let me translate that into english. what they are worried about is john stewart. they are worried that sound bites will be made fun of. you know what, too bad. that's not a good reason to keep cameras out. that's what they mean that their processes might change. they're worried about looking bad. if the first amendment means anything, it means that the public has a right to see the government in action. and the supreme court is part of the governmen...

Collect lots of data in bulk. the idea is that on the front end, you just collect a lot and worry about what you need later. >> part of the program dubbed, operation optic nerve, collected web cam images from anonnous users from 2008 to 2010, reportedly saving one screen grab every five minutes. they say a large part of the images are sexually explicit. >> as anyone who's used the internet for more than five minutes will know, there's quite a lot of pornography on it. >> the guardian says imaging of many innocent british and american citizens could have been collected and stored in the operati...

Introducing targeted efforts to help deal with some of the problems in the black community in particular. with this, he answers those critics. >> i can see myself in these young men. and the only difference is that i grew up in an environment that was a little bit more forgiving. when i was their age, i was a lot like them. i didn't have ad in the house. and i was angry about it even though i didn't necessarily realize it at the time. i made bad choices. i got high without always thinking about the harm that it could do. groups that have had the odds stacked against them in unique ways that re...

These are just innocent unsuspecting yahoo account holders. how many people may have actually been compromised here? >> well, we don't know the exact number, but we can safely say in the millions. in one six-month period 1.8 million users had their web chats recorded. it wasn't the full conversation. basically what this program did is it took a snapshot, one snapshot, every five minutes. and it took all of those photos and stored them in a massive database. it appears to have been something called operation optic nerve. and it was something of an experiment to try and match facial recognition ...