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Maryland. you voted with speaker boner and leader pelosi to keep the nsa program going. but, you know, you've probably seen these numbers our new msnbc news "wall street journal" poll showing 56% of americans are now worried these programs may go too far. if you look back at the numbers in 2006 that's up more than 10 percentage points. how then do you here, congressman defend these programs to your constituents based on this development? >> well, richard, i speak as somebody who opposed the re-authorization of the patriot act because i believed that we should reform these programs. but the vot...

Wiretapping in 2005 through the campaign in 2007 and then in 2008, so in june of 2008, the president supports the fisa re-authorization that has some improvements in his opinion to how foreign intelligence surveillance was done. i think that probably one of the big things in that that -- caused a lot of consternation with certain elements of his political supporters were telecommunications immunity for having been part of the program in the past. but i definitely think that -- i think it is -- as he has seen more broadly what happens and -- how these programs are conducted, my sense is that he...

Need to be debated in public? and then prosecuting the person who put that information out there so we can talk about it? >> well, two separate things. we have -- look, dating back to the patriot act in late 2001 to the re-authorization of fisa in 2005 and 2008. specific aspects of fisa in 2011 and 2012. we have had some very public and should have public debate about what is possible underneath the foreign intelligence surveillance act. now, there are are classified -- there is classified information in the united states. when i was the white house press secretary there was a safe in my offic...

Operate to keep us -- keep us safe. i think that he's always believed that there has to be a balance and somebody has to, in his words, watch the watchers. and i think that -- as he has seen these programs up close and he said in -- in that 2008 statement on the fisa re-authorization if he were elected president he would work to make sure that the balance of privacy and security was maintained to his like. >> all right. i want to thank robert gibbs. just like being back in the briefing room for minute. we will pick on some of the points we just discussed after this. hide. my bill's due today a...

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