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Victims 21-year-old brianna benlolo and 24-year-old tyler johnson. today, their families are struggling in disbelief to make something that makes no sense. >> with tyler, we have lost a kind, positive son who reached out to help others in need and he made a difference. this is so unbelievable. our prayers are with him and the other victims and all the people who have been touched by this senseless violence. >> police say agular legally bought the 12-gauge shotgun back in december. investigators say he was also carrying a backpack with two homemade bombs that were later disabled. edward snowd...

Back last summer. and it got defeated in the house of representatives. so i think the question we really need to talk about is whether the collection program is a good policy. it's not up to the board to decide whether or not it's legal. >> you know, josh, one of the things that abby pointed out in that story is that the board is not only recommending that the wiretapping or the surveillance programs be stopped, but that they completely junk, get rid of all of the data that has been collected, and to my mind, that seems like you're going way too far on the other end. is it possible that in rea...

Edward snowden may have had help from russians when he exposed nsa surveillance programs. now, officially the fbi says evidence suggests snowden acted alone, but there have been ongoing suspicions he was working with a foreign spy service to get thousands of pages of classified documents. >> i believe there's a reason he ended up in the hands, loving arms, of an agent in moscow. i don't think that's a coincidence. >> you think russians helped snowden? >> i believe there's questions to be answered there. i don't think it was a gee wiz luck event that he ended up in moscow under the handling of ...

>> i believe there's a reason he ended up in the hands, the loving arms of an sfb agent in moscow. i don't think that's a coincidence, number one. >> you think the russians helped snowden? >> i believe there's questions to be answered there. i don't think it was a gee whiz luck event that he ended up in moscow under the handling of the fsb. >> dianne feinstein also on "meet the press" there gave her reaction to government surveillance reforms announced by the president on friday. >> i think that what the president has said is that he wanted to maintain the capability of the program, that as ch...

Damage relations. her cell phone was tapped last year. president obama stopped just short of an apology to her. >> reporter: president obama clearly said he was not ending the surveillance programs, he proposed a number of tweaks that the nsa will need permission for accessing the stored phone records and will not monitor allied leaders and congress monitoring the foreign intelligence court. they are coping americans safe. >> what i did not do is stop the programs wholesale. not only because i felt that they made us more secure, because nothing in the initial review and i learned since indicat...