Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170523:15:55:00
Just do it last. some of your colleagues testified that our surveillance programs are critical, vital, indispensable to our national security, do you agree with their assessment? >> speaking generally, yes. they are absolutely essential and vital. >> do you agree there is an agreement that they will allow us certain powers and freedoms in exchange for safeguards t-- safeguarding protected. >> i assume there would be an assumption of privacy. >> even in the intelligence community as it relates to u.s. persons. i noted the times you said that u.s. persons. you could have inserted a name, but you...