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>> that would be a public rebuke of the president. >> it would be a very difficult decision for someone serving in the executive branch, all right? now, let's review history here. i have great admiration for director comey, but we have a history. we're on different sides of an issue in march of 2004 with regard to the president's terrorist surveillance program. and if you recall the history at that time, director comey went into president bush and said, if we did not stop this program, he would resign. so, you know, jim has taken some pretty hard stances in the past. >> earlier today the white...

To formally address and denounce the allegations. you and director comey both served in the bush administration. do you feel he should come forward? again we're in uncharted waters. >> exactly right. >> that would be a public rebuke of the president. >> it would be a very difficult decision for someone serving in the executive branch, all right? now, let's review history here. i have great admiration for director comey, but we have a history. we're on different sides of an issue in march of 2004 with regard to the president's terrorist surveillance program. and if you recall the history at tha...

Things i read while he was doing other things, he had a much broader portfolio than i did and i spent a lot of my time just on national security. but i think he knew everything he needed to know and wanted to know about the program. >> did he know the details? >> i think he knew certainly the techniques that we did discuss the techniques. there's no effort on our part to keep him from that. he was just as with the terrorist surveillance program, he had to personally sign off on that every 30 to 45 days, so the negotiation that the committee's trying to pedal it, somehow it will agency was ...

Time now for hits and misses of the week. brett. >> this is a giant miss to what passes for the so-called international community. chemical attacks continue in syria, just in the last few days. we had a chemical attack on a village, apparently using chlori chlorine incapacitated, 150 people, a number including two children. the world has given a big collective shrug. the late daniel patrick moynihan had a phrase, deafian see going down. this is what we see in syria. >> this is a miss for bill de blasio and the nypd for scrapping and anti terrorist surveillance program. not because it's unlawfu...

Put pressure on an administration dragging its feet. >> i do believe in operational security for american citizens, whether they are working for the government or not. and i think the state department and cia and other intel agencies have so much responsible in -- responsibility in thinking ahead of the new story, that they used it in order to protect people. i'm hesitant here because this is a story that i used to get asked about quite a bit and i'm not able to talk about it a lot in particular. on the news front, when newspapers like "the new york times" decided to run the terrorist surveill...