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Correspondent and joins us with more. good morning. >> good morning. that's precisely the decision the the obama justice department will make. will they appeal this judge's decision in their point is it never belonged in court. the state secrets privilege should have kept this thing entirely away from the judge and out of the public eye. but the judge disagreed and said, no, in fact. the law governing when you have to get a warrant to wiretap somebody trumps it. the fact is in this case there was never a direct clash in court about the legality of what the bush administration did. the judge si...

Details of the program sealed under the so-called state secrets privilege. michael isikoff is a senior investigative reporter with "newsweek" and also a contributor to msnbc. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> so where does the obama administration or what do they hope will happen next here? >> well, the ball is in their court. they have to decide, the obama justice department has to decide whether to appeal this ruling. this ruling was a rejection explicitly of the bush administration's original warrantless wiretapping program, the program that was so secret nobody in the gover...

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