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>> shepard: this is "studio b." it's the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. president obama assured the nation nobody is listening to your telephone calls. thank you, mr. president. it was his first public response since two newspapers revealed a slough of details about our got's jacques surveillance bram. the guardian" reported a secret court order allowed the the feds to pull phone records for tens of millions of customers of verizon. the records include phone numbers and times of calls but not the actual content. no wire tapping, in other words, and then there's a report from...

States on an ongoing, daily basis. according to the reporting$g4 of the "the guardian" the records including phone numbers, times ofç calls, where they took plae but not the content of the call. in other words, no wire tapping. civil liberty groups were quick to condemn the report, but the charm of the house intelligence committee says that helped prevent an attack on u.s. soil, and critics were told, calm down. >> thisñr program has been in effect for sevenç years, is a recall. it's a program that has worked to prevent not all terrorism but certainly vast majority of it. >> verizon custo...

Terrorists want to terrorize us. want us to concede to fear. my hope is that the community spirit, the resilience of the american people, which the president spoke so well to is what comes out of this. not the overreaction to fear, which i think we have seen for sure in the wake of 9/11 when this country overreacted and allowed unamerican things and the shredding of principles that make this country great. allowed the indefinite detention of people or allowed the warrantless wire-tapping or allowed a report on the front pages of newspapers today, the news goes on amidst the tragedy of indisput...

-- what too you make of this, michelle? can the irs too -- do this? >> the fourth amendment requires a warrant to search everything somebody has a reasonable expectation of privacy. so the question do is we have a reasonable expectation of privacy over e-mail some the answer is, you bet your bippy. >> neil: what would make the irs take the leap? >> let me go back and say the irs can do whatever they want. [laughter] >> but at the irs thinks they can do this because they're the irs and there's an ancient electronic e-mail protection act dating back to 1986 that regulates electronic communicatio...

The media between the administration and that's just the way it is. and it's not fair, but i think we all understand and it's all pretty obvious with respect to the level of scrutiny that some members of the media and interest groups placed on the action of the administration based upon who the president is. >> of course the irony is that the tactics that the bush administration used, wire tapping or water boarding and certainly a case can be made against those and legal experts debated those ad nauseam during the bush administration, but the killing of suspects before a trial seems much more ...