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Not demonstrated sufficient effectiveness to continue in operation on a permanent basis. >> i do not believe that the program poses the same types of risks to privacy as does the majority and would not shut down the program for either legal or policy reasons. >> responding to the report the white house spokesman said the administration could not disagree more, but during a series of questions carney could not point to a specific plot where the phone records provided the primary lead. >> there's no question in his mind that this is a useful tool, one of a number of tools that we are able to emp...

Listen? yes or no. even with suspicion, if you're an american citizen. >>steve: it sound like from snowden what he has said so far and what he has written, yes they can. that's one of the thing the government doesn't want us to know. >>eric: they need a court order. >>steve: legally. the big question is do you trust the government? there are so many people who say if the i.r.s. targeted conservatives, what's to stop the n.s.a. from doing the same? trust us, that's not happening. then you hear snowden and so you're wondering, we wonder about that. yesterday extraordinarily there was a web chat ...

Desk as an nsa contractor could do that on his own. and snowden tried to explain that a little bit in his web chat. i'm not sure he was quite able to. in fact, if you read closely, the answer he gave in that web chat in "the guardian" sounds a bit that he may have been exaggerating what he could do on his own. >> really quickly, we're running out of time -- you mentioned the web chat. if this guy's out there conducting web chats, how active is this man hunt for him? >> i think it is pretty active but remember, the first thing that has to happen is the justice department has to bring charges ag...

Obama, which is problematic, is it robs him with much moral authority in talking about this. >> reporter: snowden's leaks about hacking china undercut the president when he met with president xi lately. u.s. officials said no one should be surprised. we reported on nightly news 18 years ago that the clinton white house spied on leaders in miami in 1994. snowden has claimed extraordinary access to personal data. former officials say he's exaggerating. >> snowden is wrong. he could not possibly have done the things he claimed he was able to do in terms of tapping communications. >> reporter: but...

Is a scandal in terms of the torrent of leaks. threats now on his web chat for more leaks. the damage assessment i'm told is escalating in terms of how much he he's had access to. this was the president with charlie rose on pbs, kind of complaining, why does my base think that i'm the next dick cheney? watch. >> some people say, well, obama was this raving liberal before, now he's dick cheney. dick cheney sometimes says, yeah, he took it all lock, stock and barrel. my concern has always been not that we shouldn't do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism. but rather, are we setting up a s...