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Allow us to get the job done and do it by the book. also none of the national security agencies whether the fbi, nsa, none of them can go back and say how there has been even one instance where section 215 has actually thwarted a terrorist plot. >> he's right on the fact that the intelligence community review that the president ordered came back and said that section 215 really wasn't very critical piece of -- >> bulk collection. >> yeah, in part because the hay stack that you're creating is so massive that it's very difficult to actually find that needle. they say we need a haystack to begin ...

The heads of the intelligence agency the president, the speaker of the house, the republican speaker of the house, it's an important program in order to keep you know track of various things. it's not just that it's also we're able to wire tap lone wolves we're able to have a roving wire tap so if there's a terrorist and there's a wire tap on one phone but he gets another cell phone, that the wire tap extends to that. it's also able to track business records. the interesting thing about this is that there have been two studies done one that found that there has never been an abuse of this many...

Said. that is that the justice department's inspector general this week issued a report that said the fbi can't report to a single terrorist plot that was broken up as a result of this program, isn't that a really strong argument against it? >> i think that report covers only a small piece of the total picture. that is to say what the fbi is looking at. nsa and others former cia officials have said that of many recent terrorist incidents affecting the homeland the bulk data collection program has been a factor in every one of them. let's be clear how intelligence works. very rare that one piec...

Said. that is that the justice department's inspector general this week issued a report that said the fbi can't report to a single terrorist plot that was broken up as a result of this program, isn't that a really strong argument against it? >> i think that report covers only a small piece of the total picture. that is to say what the fbi is looking at. nsa and others former cia officials have said that of many recent terrorist incidents affecting the homeland the bulk data collection program has been a factor in every one of them. let's be clear how intelligence works. very rare that one piec...

Lawn, you knew the story was about security. >> absolutely. >> he said, i said why, doug, why this? why are you doing this in this fashion? why not some form or protest? do you remember the guy that lit himself on fire in front of the white house two years ago e? and i said, no. did that happen? sure enough turned to google. a man committed suicide by lighting himself on fire in front of the white house. this garnered attention, way more than a crazy, hard to believe act like that. this got the attention. here we are 23 hours later talking about it. >> it will be debated in journalism classes....