Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130607:11:03:00
On this. no. i think we probably should have had that debate six, seven, eight years ago when you guys were trace all of america's movement if you wanted to. >> i think that is exactly right, joe. look. we assumed there were intelligence gathering programs that the nsa was running. obviously, they want to look at terrorist e-mail and track terrorists phone calls. i don't think anybody knew. i certainly had no idea that it was as big as either of these programs that we are talking about now. and when you look at them, what we have learned the last couple of days you wonder why couldn't we have ...