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Broad political support and public acceptance. so in this case, i actually think we're going to have to take a little bit of operational loss to make more public exactly what it is we're doing and not doing and why it has been effective in protecting the united states. so i think we'll see a bit few more examples out there of how this program has been successful. >> general hayden, it's willie geist. we've been talking about the prism program for a week now, since the "washington post" and glenn greenwald at "the guardian" broke the story. there still seems to be confusion when i talk to peopl...

This worldwide spying apparatus, that he felt that the need to do that outweighed his own personal self-interest. that said, he also knows that the u.s. government is the most powerful entity on earth, that it considers him to be the number one most wanted individual. that they intend to, if they get their hands on him, basically destroy his life. and although i haven't discussed specifically with him what his plans are, he knows that he is holding some cards given that he had access to very top secret information on the part of the most secretive agency in the world and intends to figure out ...

The united states. >> how has president obama changed the nsa program? obviously it's a bit of a comedy. it's actually a farce of a comedy when you have right wing talkers who supported george bu bush's program who now say this is a grave threat to america's national security and left wing talkers who thought george bush's program was a grave threat to national security but now support the president, this president? is there a big difference between the two programs? >> yeah. actually, president obama didn't change president bush's program. president bush changed president bush's program. the ...

Dana, to you first. tell me just broadly speaking, what should we expect out of the hearing today? and how much of this nsa story do you think will permeate sort of the testimony of the questioning? >> it's hard to imagine that it won't. i've already been told by sources on this committee that they've been alerted that several democratic senators will ask about the issue of the phone records and also probably the so-called prism program. getting involved with people's internet searches and things like that. but this hearing is scheduled to be on cyber security. which is not an unimportant issu...

Important is what he is talking about which is the bill of rights, the fourth amendment, the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. that does rise to a very high level for me. then you have to ask yourself he is practicing civil disobedience and many times in our history we have honored people who have done that. i'm reserving judgment on that. i am worried on the one hand about people who release information, who might get people killed in the field, i don't think this rises to that. i think he released information to say, look, the bill of rights is being ignored. and i think...