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The bad guys. the bad guys, the al qaeda affiliates, russian intelligence services, chinese intelligence services, the force that operates terrorism events all around the world, those are the folks we need to focus our attention and our energy on in order to keep america safe. >> it seems to me what both of you are saying you haven't liked this focus on the nsa and complaints about the nsa in terms of the breadth of what they're collecting. >> well, i would argue it allows them to focus on the problem. we spend a lot of time now internally focused. the thousands of man hours they have spent tr...

A contractor at the facility. that system did not utilize the background checks system that the federal -- or department of defense required. i'm sorry. i'm getting a tremendous amount of background noise. >> i apologize. hopefully we can fix that. we'll do the best we can and muddle through and hopefully you'll stay with me. could convi congressman, i want to take you back to the beginning of the shooter's career and ask you how he got into the navy reserves in the first place when he had an incidence of violence involving a gun in his background. >> that's the type of questions congress will...

Uh-huh. the ways and means chairman calls it must stop immediately and others in congress say the irs investigation must go much deeper. >> the public deserves to know. and the congress is conducting a legitimate oversight function in doing this. so, yes, there is some explaining to do, and i think we're asking for that explanation on behalf of the american people, on behalf of people from the right and the left who believe in free expression. >> irs officials say they have made changes. they say they want to see the full transcript of the interview to get a better sense of the context. neil? ...

Potential prosecution? >> i'm not at all. i mean, i think the attorney general, he just doesn't appreciate congress' oversight function, stent think we should be getting involved in his business and basically he said we had to allege that rosen was a co-conspirator to satisfy the statute and get the warrant, so he kin of dances around about whether they actually considered him to be a criminal suspect. he did acknowledge he approve the warrant. but he responded about why they sought a protective order to keep this secret which is usually not the case, and he cited things such as he thought ros...

Potential prosecution? >> i'm not at all. i mean, i think the attorney general, he just doesn't appreciate congress' oversight function, stent think we should be getting involved in his business and basically he said we had to allege that rosen was a co-conspirator to satisfy the statute and get the warrant, so he kin of dances around about whether they actually considered him to be a criminal suspect. he did acknowledge he approve the warrant. but he responded about why they sought a protective order to keep this secret which is usually not the case, and he cited things such as he thought ros...