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Americans is, fran is telling me and clapper is saying, i've got people here who hate me going other places to fight but they're returning fear. how am i not less safe? >> look, i do think that it is a legitimate fear. we have been worried rightly about home grown jihadists. so we've -- >> we're supposed to be winning. where's the winning part of this? >> the winning part is our ability to detect and track is better. with all the leaks you've seen, and we hear this again and again, really hurt us because the bad guys understand now better our capability to detect them. that's been our strategi...

Keep it. then finally to have access to it we'll have to go through a rigorous court system. jon, my problem with this all along has not been the traditional one. people worry, oh, well, privacy. i don't think anybody should assume you have privacy at all anymore. emails, phone conversations, where you go on the internet, that is now public knowledge. even if a country or company doesn't have ability to do it now, they will soon, so get prepared for that. the problem i have with it, if government collects it all, keeps it all and decides who has access to it all the opportunity and potential f...

>> this whole hurdle i believe is our laws keeping up with technology. and i think the president really explained that today. but how do we do it? >> educate the people of how important it is for us to really be able to get intelligence. you know, i saw 9/11. i've been in combat. so i'd like to yield to those people who can provide the information that causes americans to live. but between you and me, ed, when i saw this snowden information, i was so embarrassed as an american that people would think our country was the type -- when we went overseas they would tell us the soviet had bugs and e...

Patriot act during the aftermath of 9/11 so i support the patriot act and have, but i think the problem with the nsa is twofold. one is lanny is correct in that their messaging has been awful. two, how did snowden get all this? how did that happen? >> i think that's a good question. >> and there is a fundamental issue of how we're operating that this guy got this data as a contractor. i mean, it's just mind-boggling that the agency let its guard down or somebody did within the agency -- >> a low-level. >> i'm sure there's a lot of good people inside the nsa and the fact we let our guard down a...