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>> chris: you would put it back on the table if you were the president and you got another high value target. >> i would have the program ready to go that any day we may capture a detainee with vital information about the next attack or some new development and i think that program provides us with the capacity to collect that intelligence and gun that program together with our terrorist surveillance program, those two things i think were the most important steps we tooking that kept us safe for 7 years. >> chris: as you know, the only justice department has reopened an investigation of a half...

Indirectly led to the death of usama bin laden and i don't think there's any way to deny that. i have also written doubts about violating written law against torture and we're between a rock and a hard place but we have to give credit where credit is due. george bush's enhanced interrogation techniques as well as the terrorist surveillance program both of which that i had legal doubts about were effective in the killing of usama bin laden. >> why that's important is because lenny davis is a democratic strategist. that's important that he is giving kudos to president bush. and real quickly this...

War there, and the concern that i have expressed in my questioning today is that the court has taken a lot of power away from congress. the court is doing a lot of legislating. they are supposed to defer to congress. we have a 100,000-page record. they have set hundreds of years of precedence by allowing corporations to make political contributions. so the court is taking over a lot of our legislative function in many, many cases, and then when the executive, when the president asserts his authority, as he did with the warrantless wiretaps, the court dubs the case a terrorist surveillance prog...

A al harmane cairgs and senator specter and i have discussed this. i mean, it's my understanding that what the judge did here was find the terrorist surveillance program illegal, and essentially say that the plaintiff was entitled to damages from the government. so i guess the question might be whether that case goes up to the supreme court or not. but but clearly, the judge here dealt with something that was outside of the scope of law, which was the terrorist surveillance program and made a finding that it was, in fact, illegal. >> i believe that that is what the judge said in that case, and...

This year. the al harman case and senator specter and i have discussed this. i mean, it's my understanding that what the judge did here was find the terrorist surveillance program illegal and essentially say that the mroif was plaintif entitled to damages from the government. so, i guess the question might be whether that case goes up to the supreme court or not. but, clearly, the judge here dealt with something that was outside of the scope of law, which was the terrorist surveillance program and made a finding that it was, in fact, illegal. >> i believe that that is what the judge said in th...