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The act that may have been used with the help of the phony dossier to abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. the tweet came after the white house strongly urged lawmakers to reject the amendment, put those limits on tapping communications by americans following the president's tweet, he and house speaker paul ryan spoke on the phone after that conversation. the president tweeted this, with that being said, i have personally directed the fix to be unmasking process. since taking office and the vote is about foreign surveillance and foreign bad guys on foreign land, ...

Obama, which is problematic, is it robs him with much moral authority in talking about this. >> reporter: snowden's leaks about hacking china undercut the president when he met with president xi lately. u.s. officials said no one should be surprised. we reported on nightly news 18 years ago that the clinton white house spied on leaders in miami in 1994. snowden has claimed extraordinary access to personal data. former officials say he's exaggerating. >> snowden is wrong. he could not possibly have done the things he claimed he was able to do in terms of tapping communications. >> reporter: but...

Lot of provocative, sarcastic comments about the patriot act. hard to tell when you're reading message boards, but you could tell that this was a very edgy g guy. brilliant, undeniably. and i'm wondering how he got hired by the cia, not by the contractor later on, years later, but he first got a top-secret clearance as a staff employee of the cia. >> well, general, all these private contractors having access to this classified -- >> no, that's not the issue. it's people of this personality type having access to this issue -- >> what about the clearance? >> contractor or government employee, al...

The things he claimed he was able to do in terms of tapping communications. five inspectors general looked at the program which you wrote about, and in a public report said there were no abuses. controversial program but no abuses. >> but snowden got into things you didn't know about. >> one more point, though. congressman, it's only terrorism. the only way you can access the meta data is through a terrorist predicate. >> where is that written? >> it's in the court order. it's in the broad structure -- >> but that's how you get the data. once the fbi has it, their practice is, and we asked the...