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When i listen to these kinds of things, to jessica's point he was incredibly personal. i was taking notes, not only as we heard him say last year, not only if he had a son he would look like trayvon martin, another way of saying that, trayvon martin could have been me 35 years ago. i want your take of what was said and also equally important, what wasn't said. >> i think one of the things that wasn't said, and i think this is where he was -- you know, this is a thoughtful guy. this is somebody who thinks these sorts of things through. he has been under pressure, particularly from the african-a...

Time when he said, what you're doing is absolutely needed, one of the hackers in the back of the room then yelled back at the general, then stop arresting us! complex. right? last week in competing bombshell scoops, first the "washington post" and a few minutes later "the guardian" both reported on the existence of a giant u.s. surveillance system at the nsa called prism. the system vacuums up information from some of the largest internet companies in the country. stuff like your videos and your pictures and e-mails, your chats. so those things are not just traveling between you and whatever y...

Some of the things i read in this story, at least in this story about the collection of domestic phone records by the nsa. i understand the legal hook that the government is trying to hang it on. they're trying to hang it on the so-called business records provision of the patriot act. you can read that provision and like senator berkeley and think the government got it wrong and fisa got it wrong. >> there is a very generous interpretation of it could conceivably allow one to do the things reported on with nsa and advisor. no conceivable interpretation, you think. >> no way. >> and duly going ...

So-called business records provision of the patriot act. you can read that provision and like senator berkeley and think the government got it wrong and fisa got it wrong. >> there is a very generous interpretation of it could conceivably allow one to do the things reported on with nsa and advisor. no conceivable interpretation, you think. >> no way. >> and duly going to a fisa court, judge vinson sign off on it, all squarely within the bounds of the law. this prism thing, is that legal, from what you can tell? >> i would like to know what the argument is for its legality. it does not appear l...

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