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Everything they've done and everyone they've spoken with. >> just talking about phone records with the prism program, saying transactional and you're saying it could end up being more. what can the balance be? >> first of all that balance is a false dichotomy. privacy is essential to security. having greater privacy you give people greater security. we saw the failings of the report chinese hacking into google using law enforcement access. the very access that allowed for law enforcement was the whole that created lots of breached security in people's accounts. >> over 1,400 pieces of informat...

E-mails and mining your phone calls. so i'm not sure that's exactly the right critique of these -- go ahead. >> if that's true and i agree, i was going to bring that up myself with congressman nadler having said this. but if that's true then this whole prism program is it not thwarting what's out there in the terrorist potential attacks? i mean, are we not getting appropriate information from prism? >> i guess the terrorists may be using e-mail while still knowing that their e-mail may be exposed. that's a -- we need to know more about the what the program works and i suspect we never will kno...

Can't know it is going on. certainly what the president said today stretched several things. he said congress had approved this program. well, if congress approved something with very specific standards, and those standards were secretly eviscerated, the guts were torn out of them so they were meaningless, then congress really hasn't approved the program at all. so i disagree with the president on that. when he said members had been briefed, well i was one of i think the few who sought a briefing on the cell phone side because of what i heard if the public press. but i don't think many others ...

Guy. the nsa passed that information to the fbi, the fbi got warrants for his phone, surveillance on his house. fisa warrants for his e-mail accounts and by the time they set up that surveillance, within two days he was driving to new york with the explosives in the car to leave 16 backpacks on the subway. that's how the program works in theory. that example i just gave you is how it works in real life. >> john miller, appreciate the reporting. thanks. i want to continue the discussion with glenn greenwald of the guardian who broke this story and former with george w. bush white house spokes...

Likes a opposed to what? >> yeah, what do they have? hompleghts are you going to embrace? john boehner? i mean, it's i think president obama will be the democrat darling of the liberal. this is a particularly, you know, conflicted situation because you have republicans and democrats on both sides of the issue. republicans and licialtsz on both sides of the issue. dianne feinstein defending this snooping to me the biggest story, a lot of people have buried the lead here. isn't either the prism program where they are snooping on the internet or the massive verizon subpoena. it is that in the mid...