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>> we also have federal judges that we put in place who are not subject to political pressure. >> and third, president obama said the programs were sufficiently transparent, in fact, when asked if government should explain the new authorities which it had expanded without any public debate at the time, president obama said the court was transparent enough. >> should this be transparent in some way? >> it is transparent. that's why we set up the fisa court. >> so according to president, number one, the spying struck the right balance. number two, the spying court was working fine and number thr...

Section 215 of the patriot act, the program that collects telephone records i'll work with congress to improve the public's confidence in the oversight conducted by the foreign intelligence surveillance court. known as the fisc. i think we should consider some additional changes to the fisc. we can take steps to put in place greater oversight, greater transparency, and constraints on use of in this authority. we can and must be more transparent. so i've drengted the intelligence community to make public as much information about these programs as possible. >> this is crucial. the president and...

On two things. a location overseas already identified as being of interest. two, triggers key words like a foreign e-mail address or words in that content. that said, if the "times" has this whole story right, how much bigger than we thought is the government's spying program? >> you know, i think it's unclear, quite frankly. we've been talking about this issue for several years, what, maybe about four or five years. it's unclear what the legal analysis is at this point. we don't really know whether or not this is bulk collection, whether or not they're looking at it sort of retroactively, alm...

Let's take a look. >> we don't have domestic spying program. what we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an e-mail address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat. >> so i thought that was going. >> i would hate to see -- i would hate to see us with one if we don't have one now. >> we don't have a -- first of all obviously we have a domestic spying program. >> of course we do. >> but beyond that -- >> listen. >> what does the president -- >> i love this president, everybody knows i love this president, but this is ridiculous the first of all we d...