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What we have shown is oregonians again and again is we can step forward and help our people as we seek to help this community today and show a bit of light for the rest of the nation. today is not about what any of us in the united states congress have voted for in the past. it is about what common ground we as people who don't always agree can find in the future. >> thank you, senator. next we have senator berkeley.

Lead this conversation. what we have shown as oregonians again and again is we can step forward and help our people as we seek to help this community today and show a bit of light for the rest of the nation. today is not about what any of us in the united states congress has voted for in the past. it is about what common ground we as people who don't always agree can find in the future. >> thank you. next we have senator berkeley.

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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