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Without first getting a search warrant. this is the last active case that challenges the bush administration's old terrorist surveillance program. we're told today's ruling focused narrowly on the islamic charity case but one plaintiff's lawyer says it actually shows the entire terrorist surveillance program was illegal. then president bush authorized that program shortly after the attacks of 9/11 in an effort to allow investigators to start wiretaps without getting the courts involved. that program is over now. it ended back in 2007. he was a hostage for more than 12 years and tonight he is a...

Lisa sylvester's monitoring some of the other top stories in "the situation room" right now. what do you have, lisa? >> hi, wolf. well, russia still reeling from a deadly twin bombing monday as attacks again. today's two bombs exploded in a southern republic near the southern republic of chechnya. 12 people were killed, including nine police officers. two female suicide bombers attacked the subway system in moscow on monday, killing at least 39 people. a chechnyan leader called the attacks revenge because of the killings of chechen civilians. the u.s. government is guilty of wiretapping ph...

I'm christina brown. here's what's happening. people in new england are dealing with flooding on a scale rarely seen in the northeast. three days of record breaking rain have wash the out bridges and roads, overwhelmed sewage systems and forced hundreds of evacuations. amtrak suspending routes along northeast corridor and portions of i- 5, region's main north-south highway shut down. eight of nine militia members pleaded not guilty in a michigan courtroom today, charged with plotting to kill police officers and their families. the ninth member is in indiana, he will eventually be brought t...

Can say categorically that brett kavanaugh was not working on or was in any meetings and did not work on any memos related to what became known as the terrorist surveillance program. i think he tried to mention that. he wasn't made into any program so senator leahy doesn't understand how classified programs work. if you are not read into something, that was the most sensitive program in the government at the time you are not told about it, you cannot work on it. you might have thoughts about something but -- i worked on that program. he was not part of the team that worked on it. he was not al...

Give you a chance to respond before we take it back to the hearing. >> like i said before, i think senator leahy wants me nominated for the supreme court. if trump does, i will answer senator leahy's questions to his face. i can answer for judge brett kavanaugh, i remember more clearly than he does. the terrorist surveillance program was after that date. judge brett kavanaugh was not clear, not read into the program, at the highest classification level in the government, very few people were allowed, legally allowed to know about it. brett kavanaugh was not one of them. so he might have been s...