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Growing opposition to the surveillance the nsa. rand paul is tapping some public sentiment. not just on the left. we had a vote in congress. a republican congress from michigan sponsoring an amendment that almost gutted the nsa collection of meta data. it failed 217-205. very close. so is dorothy right about the politics? >> i really would like to think dorothy's right about this and i'd like to think chris christie is right. i worry a little bit that 9/11, all of that, is becoming a new york/new jersey/connecticut thing. those of us who experienced it that day. and it is essentially receding ...

Long it lasted. that is metadata. you don't know what's being said, you just know contact was made. now, that computer could analyze all those contacts to come up with essentially networks. who was talking to whom most often? we all talk to the same people over and over again. then, along comes some kind of event in the middle of all this. a terrorist event. what investigators could do if they had a suspect in particular is go back to all of that metadata and say look at all of the activity on the phones before this happened, around the time this happened. did some groups stand out as being mu...

To make our sure that there is not an international nexus to any terrorist event that they may believe is ongoing in the ooh knighted states. >> he said that as he was introducing a bill to rack crackdown on foreign surveillance of united states citizens. critics now say he should be more about surveillance on americans by their own government. bill: thanks. it's raining in washington. hang in there. martha. martha: the growing concerns over the white house' credibility on benghazi, and new hearings that are now in the work, it's not going away. new polls show troubling signs. bill: mr. obama'...

Editorial board. tom, walk us through this surveillance program. how does it work? >> we're talking about billions and billions of phone calls all across this country. let's narrow it down to one neighborhood. imagine all of those calls taking place just here. and imagine you have a computer that's tracking every time a call it made, when it's received, and how long it lasted. that is megadate. you don't know what was said, you just know that contact was made. that's the corner stone of this program as we understand it. >> even if the goft has all of this information, how does that help top te...

Look at any attack, particularly looking in the rear view mirror as opposed to looking through the wind screen, you could judge that it could have been prevented. this was preventable, if. but let me also offer you the view that attacks of this nature are inevitable. this is like penalty kicks in soccer. no matter how good the goalie is, sooner than later the ball is going in the back of the net. i don't mean to be so dark for your viewers but they have to understand we're working in a part of the spectrum now that is well below what we experienced more than a decade ago. i mean, look, what ha...