Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140325:20:35:00
Collection, is an admission that we didn't really need to hold on to these records to begin with, as reason magazine says, the program was essential until it became dispensable. >> yeah, and this is sort of the point that senator ron wyden, a critic of the bulk collection program, was making today. which is that for years, we've been told or i guess for months since the revelation, that these were absolutely critical to combatting terrorism. that you needed to three hops. that you couldn't wait for a fisa approval of the request, that any time like that would be the difference of an explosion ...