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Regarding this. based on what i understand about the way our government systems work, i'd be surprised if there were some sort of warrantless eavesdropping going on against trump campaign officials. but i think it's something that is a very serious allegation and it certainly deserves a serious nonpartisan swres investigation competent experts. >> i thought it was interesting the comments from lindsey graham. if they received a fisa warrant, what was going on. is it too early to speculate? >> i think it is for a early to speculate. there can be all kinds of reasons why can a fisa warrant was o...

Gone. liquids limited to tiny containers. laptops out of their bags, explosive detecting swabs, metal detectors like we used to have but also puffer machines and body scans -- and really detailed body scans. intrusion. intrusion by means the public at least knows about, but also intrusion by means kept secret. despite federal laws limiting the national security agency to collecting only foreign communications, in 2002, president bush signs an order expanding warrantless eavesdropping on u.s. citizens within the united states. that directive remained secret until "the new york times" exposes it...

Spoke about that last night. >> all of the best reporting involves journalists having classified information, the warrantless eavesdropping program, that's what investigative journalism. and if you want to start criminalizing that, you're asking as a citizen to be kept ignorant and to have people in power to have no accountability or transparency. journalism is not a crime and it's not terrorism. >> he's right about that, but the comparison to the pentagon papers just seems different. there's definitely more motive, it seems, in this type of situation. but when it comes to glen greenwald and w...

Thank you very much. i want to bring in james banford to the conversation, author of "the shadow factor: the ultra secret nsa." let me just ask you about this. you heard jim acosta reporting. senator feinstein says this is legal. mike rogers says that this has stopped a terror attack. so what's the problem? >> the problem is it massive surveillance. we went through this problem with the bush administration, warrantless eavesdropping. it was an outrage that government can turn the surveillance on average citizens without any suspicion whatsoever. and here this is a enormous increase in that. th...

Wisconsin, he sent a letter over to attorney general eric holder. he says that these reports about these phone records that are being collected according to him is an overbroad interpretation of the patriot act and needless to say, erin, with this new story, this new revelation that emerged in "the washington post" and "the guardian" about internet traffic and the use of internet by normal americans across the country, there will be more questions about the patriot act in the coming days. >> all right, jim acosta. thank you very much. i want to bring in james banford to the conversation, autho...