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Some of the president's own advisers are saying to us, chuck todd and me, he missed the opportunity last summer when this blew up and let his critics and intelligence community's critics take the initiative. did not have good spokespeople on the hill -- >> they are not going to come on and explain chinese spying -- >> they can come on and make the defenses that you did. just briefly, jeremy, should the nsa put everything out that all communications with edward snowden and respond to his claim that he was a whistle blower and tried and couldn't move the system, therefore had to do something ill...

Data can be collected without any suspicion of wrong doing on our part or underlying justification. >> jeremy, you know the law and helped write the law. >> it's a complete distortion. in 2007 and 2008, congress had a tremendously robust debate on whether and how to amend fisa, the legislation, the bill that allows us to go to a fisa court and that was voted on many times and amended and signed into law. it was an open debate on the house of representatives in the senate about how to use -- go after foreign targets when they are communicating using american internet service provides. we passed...

Individuals, but to my supervisors, to my colleagues, in more than one office. >> and that was edward snowden claiming that he had attempted to raise the red flag within the nsa before leaking those documents to the world. nbc has confirmed with multiple forces snowden did indeed send at least one e-mail to the general counsel's office raising policy and legal questions but officials say he wasn't sounding alarms. nbc news filed a freedom of information request for that and any other records to be continued. i'm joined by jerry bash and also served as chief of staff to jane harmon, current dir...

Perhaps enhance the number of liaison people up in the coordination center, and we will be getting a chinese liaison officer into our center to assist with the coordination of the search and making sure that nothing falls through the cracks. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> china's sharing everything that's relevant to this search. everything. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. on friday has it not since been agreed upon after this discovery? >> where was it? >> perhaps the next -- we'll be having another press conference, probably the next couple of days. i'll come back to you on that. >> reporter: ap...

Bad? >> yeah. i think, you know, on the cover of the book, actually, we have a photo of a santa claus, it was a mall santa, and he has, like, a very severe black eye. and the children are sitting on his lap. and it just -- it just is amazing to me that he showed up to work that day. and that he took presumably a lot more photos with children. but it's just -- to me that's, like, classic awkward christmas photo. >> and perhaps a santa with multiple jobs. now, i've got to ask you -- >> we hope so. >> -- some of these photos just older photos or are these newer photos as well, because right now i...