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And this guy, alexander said, i'm not going out there and clapper did it and those that did it got in a lot of trouble for what i ended up saying. we'll monitor this hearing and bring you the news as it happens. we're seeing a rush to the courthouse steps over the nsa spying program. aclu and senator rand paul and now parents of a deceased navy seal have all filed separate class action lawsuits in the past few days alleging nsa surveillance infringed on their constitutional rights. among those filing, the parents of navy seal michael strange killed in afghanistan in 2011. his parents say their...

When the news broke about the nsa's spying, the "huffington post" was quick to weigh in and ran this picture of president obama's face melting into the smug semifinal his predecessor president bush. that reaction is as simplistic as it is unoriginal. if you examine the law, not photo shopped bush's spying program was quite different. his administration started a secret program to wiretap people without warns, violated existing law and not authorized by new loss. the administration tried to keep that program secret from even its own lawyers who actually are supposed to approve all executive ord...

Edward snowden was an employee of our firm for less than three months assigned to a team in hawaii. snowden who had a salary at the rate of $122,000 was terminated june 10th, 2013. that's yesterday. and the reason, violation of the firm's code of ethics and firm policy. that may be the understatement of 2013. it all comes as a reporter for the guardian is promising to reveal even more information about what he calls an invasive spying program. programs plural. joe johns has been following the story from washington. so do we have any idea right now as the officials say they're levying charges w...

Sending messages through the u.s. i think there are safeguards, but abuse is the issue. if you don't trust government, we live in an era of low trust in government, that's why i think people -- but when people look at it in terms of terror, they come to this conclusion you have to aggressively fight terror. >> the fisa only turned down 11 out of 34,000 requests. >> congress has been regularly briefed on those. >> go ahead. >> the program has been around about a decade and we do not have a single case of anybody saying my e-mail was abused. do you think after a decade if there were abuse you wo...

Yes, 30%, no, 52%. you see the breakdown. the second question, how likely is it that government agencies are listening in on private conversations of american citizens? you see the breakdown there, very likely, 35%, somewhat likely, 33%. officials are saying that's not what this program does but let's bring in the panel. jason riley, editorial board member of "the wall street journal." paul williams, and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. it was surreal to watch that interview as snowden laid that out. your thoughts how this developed over the weekend? >> the video was fascinating. he ...