senators udall and wyden wrote that letter on june 24th.he next day the head of the nsa wrote back to them saying that the nsa, yes, possibly could have been more precise in its language. in the fact sheet. and then right after that, poof. the fact sheet this appeared. the nsa tried to take the document off the internet. which you cannot do because really it's the internet. and when you try to take things off the internet, boom, it's the streisand effect. here's the story of the missing nsa fact sheet on national tv which never would have happened had they left it up there. and just fixed it. strikethrough. it's okay. hold on. more ahead. a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem, a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn left. i don't think so. [ male announcer ] for years, bob took warfarin, and made a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but not anymore. bob's doctor recommended a

senators udall and wyden wrote that letter on june 24th.head of the nsa wrote back to them saying that the nsa, yes, possibly could have been more precise in its language. in the fact sheet. and then right after that, poof. the fact sheet disappeared. the nsa tried to take the document off the internet. which you cannot do because really it's the internet. and when you try to take things off the internet, boom, it's the streisand effect. here's the story of the missing nsa fact sheet on national tv which never would have happened had they left it up there. and just fixed it. strikethrough. it's okay. hold on. more ahead. i think farmers care more about the land than probably anyone else. we've had this farm for 30 years. we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. that's how we make our living and that's how we can pass the land and water back to future generations. people should make up their own mind what's best for them. all i can say is it has worked well for us. ♪ and i'll never desert you ♪ ♪ i'll stand by you ye

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senators udall and wyden wrote that letter on june 24th.ead of the nsa wrote back to them saying that the nsa, yes, possibly could have been more precise in its language. in the fact sheet. and then right after that, poof. the fact sheet this appeared. the nsa tried to take the document off the internet. which you cannot do because really it's the internet. and when you try to take things off the internet, boom, it's the streisand effect. here's the story of the missing nsa fact sheet on national tv which never would have happened had they left it up there. and just fixed it. strike through. it's okay. hold on. more ahead. vo: traveling you definitely end up meeting a lot more people but a friend under water is something completely different. i met a turtle friend today. avo: whatever you're looking for, expedia has more ways to help you find yours. beneful medley's... ...in tuscan, romana, and mediterranean style varieties. just mix it in... ...and take play to new places. three cans in every pack. beneful medley's vietnam in 1972. [ all ]

senator ron wyden, we've been talking about this issue for

there are all sorts of admissions, including this week in a letter to senator wyden that it exceeded the legal authority it acknowledges it has. and they write it off to inadvertent key strokes. the realy issue is they have de this in complete secrecy. nobody monitors who they're eavesdropping on. the question of abuse is one congress should be investigating. >> i know you have been in contact with snowden, it seems he's prepared to stay in russia, will that be possible and what russia will decide?

there are all sorts of admissions, including this week in a letter to senator wyden that it exceeded the legal authority it acknowledges it has. and they write it off to inadvertent key strokes. the realy issue is they have de

wyden: all right. i will sea see if i can beat the clock here because i no he that colleagues are here as well. in fact, senator baldwin has been a great advocate for liberties and showing that liberty and security are compatible, both when she was a member of the other body and here when she was part of our group. i thank her for it. mr. president, the intelligence officials can only point to two cases where this program -- the phone records collection program -- actually provided useful information about an individual involved in terrorist activity. in both of these cases, the government had all the information it needed to go to the phone company and get an individual court order, an emergency authorization, for the phone records they needed. in both of these cases the individuals who were identified using these phone records were arrested months or years after they were first identified. if government agents had felt that the situation was urgent, they could have used emergency authorizations to ob

. >> senator nelson, senator wyden gave an impassioned speech yesterday and he hinted -- i know becausetelligence and security restrictions since he has been briefed, he couldn't speak to it -- but he certainly broadly hinted that there are other programs of vast collection that we don't even know about. >> well, first of all, i think what senator wyden was talking about is, he has an objection for all of the phone records so that americans did not know that the phone records -- which are business records of the telephone company to be stored in government computers. that's just the date, the time and the number called from and to. that's nothing about the identity of the participants in the call and it is certainly not the content senator wyden's original position was he wanted all of that made public well, it is now because of edward snowden. but beyond that, andrea, my personal feeling is -- and i helped craft this law, along with senator wyden -- i believe that the checks and the balances are there and we're measuring against what are we trying to do. we're trying to protect against

isour guest on "newsmakers" senator ron wyden. he is a member of the house intelligence committee. he has been a critic of the national security agency and its scope of data gathering. we invited him because there has been so much going on including aimed toouse vote that somewhat curtailed the nsa and its data gathering methods. congressionala reporter for "the washington t."t your cod >> of them one of the most vocal opponents. in march you raise the red flag for many of us when you wrote a letter with senator udall. americans would be stunned to know the extent of summit this government ease dropping. is before edward snowden came out and revealed many of the details of the telephone and internet surveillance programs. were these two programs the extent of what you and senator udall were talking about or have they not yet been disclosed but you think americans would be stunned to learn about? you are not allowed to tap the truth out in morse code for these rules. i do have to stick to what senator udall and i have stated on the public record. ien i did indicate that thought the

tell wyden in advance. don't ask me that. you can always turn the question around.is what officials do all the time when they're being asked something they don't like. if you're asking me x, y and z, here's the answer to that. he had options against outright lying to congress and the american people. >> was one option telling the truth? >> i think probably not at that point since they had classified the program. so telling the truth wouldn't have been a strong option for him but you know, the truth is always an option but you think it would be a top option rather than the last possibility to consider. >> bill: i don't understand that. this is my big problem with what nsa is doing. they were collecting all of this phone information. i think that's totally excessive and goes way beyond what the patriot act intended or what the constitution should allow. if they were doing it, they should have told us about it. i think sadly, maybe, most americans would probably say okay, i guess after 9-11, this is what we -- this is what we have to expect. they're keeping track of al

senator wyden called for new reform thing that scaling back the surveillance powers, his comments are about one hour. >> we are talking about one of the defining challenges facing united the united states today. that is how to reconcile between personal privacy and national security. we are particularly glad to have senator ron wyden with us here today because of his work on this issue. he was one of only 10 senators that talked about the patriot act. he spoke about the collection of any kind of data. that hearing is a few months before the recent revelation in this includes the domestic surveillance. i think it is fair to say that senator wyden is consistently thoughtful as a supporting voice about the constitution of principles and i'm looking for to what he has to say to us today. i want to first offer a few brief reflections on my own on surveillance and privacy, a topic that i have been working on for quite a long time. in 1984, when i was working for pat leahy, we sent a letter to the attorney general asking about the 1968 wiretap application and how it applied to a electronic m

wyden will be speaking at the center for american progress. >> senator wyden has consistently been a thoughtful voice speaking out in support of constitutional principles and on behalf of the rights of average americans. i'm looking forward to what he has to say to us today. i first want to offer a few --ef reflections on my own on surveillance and privacy, a topic i have been working on for quite a long time. year, not theeal book, when i was working for pat leahy, we sent a letter to the attorney general asking the 1968 -- whether it applied to electronic mail and other forms of a lot -- of electronic communication. we heard shortly thereafter from the deputy attorney general, who said the answer to that question was neither clear nor obvious. that response and senator leahy's dedication to the issue led to the passage of the a lot tronic -- of the electronic mutations act the -- electronic communications act. technological change has swamped our existing legal regime. -- media has focused on the focused almost exclusively over edward snowden's attempt to earn the world record for

recently in a letter to the director of national intelligence james clapper wyden asked has the n.s.a. collected or made any plans to collect american cell site location data in bulk clapper responded with under this program n.s.a. is not currently receiving cell site location data and has no current plans to do so though clapper does add additional information is provided in the classified supplement so if the n.s.a. is not collecting cell site location data then what more information needs to be provided in the classified supplement well this is just one of a number of questions still unanswered and earlier i spoke with brian do get technologist the new america foundation to open technology institute and i asked him how these latest revelations about internet data collection drop job with programs we already know about like prison. x. keyscore appears to be an interface to the amount of programs that we've already learned about prism. is just the name of a database for example x. keyscore is the interface that allows an n.s.a. agent to do what amounts to a google search against your

in a recent letter to the director of national intelligence james clapper wyden asked as the n.s.a. collected or made any plans to collect american cell site location data in bulk clapper responded with under this program n.s.a. is not currently receiving cell site location data and has no current plans to do so though clapper does add additional information is provided in the classified supplement so if the n.s.a. is not collecting cell site location data then what more information needs to be provided in the classified supplement well this is just one of a number of questions still unanswered about the surveillance state and for more i'm joined by brian doogan a technologist at new america foundation is open technology institute brian welcome to show. so there's a lot to get to here let's start with this latest revelation about x. keyscore it appears to be some sort of program that the n.s.a. uses to go through troves of internet data on basically anyone how is it different to other programs we learned about like pro prism which also is some sort of internet data collection progra

ron wyden's question.s the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? clapper's answer was no, sir. so what do you do when the head lies to congress? just let him walk? >> we're on twitter by the way at bp show where teamster says this is why they're called spies, bill. wake up. everyone spies on everyone. kpt says i want to know if us americans are being spied on. as far as other countries it's been going on for years. tim says snowden has shown us our members of congress are lazy bums who have totally failed to monitor the nsa. >> bill: i agree with that. they knew about it. did nothing about it. all right. here is -- here's the smartest guy in south carolina. now that peter is gone. ike from charleston. how you doing ike? >> caller: oh, man, you're setting the bar up there. billy boy, i love you like a brother from another mother. next to the oldest profession, this has been going on in the back rooms of the other governments, they're just sitting there laughin

wyden said that the nsa had committed more violations on spying than the government had disclosed. the senator said that his concerns came on top of a recent admission from national intelligence director james clapper over violations of court orders. >> they did say there were violations of those court orders with respect to the phone records. that is on record. those violations are more serious than stated. >> he has been unable to explain his concerns in detail because surveillance operations are classified. on friday, james clapper sent a letter describing a number of problems -- clapper has previously apologize for falsely telling wyden in march the nsa does not would and we collect data on americans. agencies saidnce they would cause a fire more information about nsa surveillance operations, including the order disclosed by edward snowden that ordered verizon to hand over phone records. last week's defeat of a measure to block the bulk collection of data on all phone calls placed in the united states. a federal appeals court has ruled law enforcement agencies can obtain locati

. >> just a moment ago we showed you -- member ron wyden and the director of national intelligence in that clapper said the nsa was not wittingly collecting information. he later admitted that that was the, quot, least untruthful answer he could give at the time. i'm joined by the senator from oregon. >> thank you for having me jake. >> i know there's only so much you can say about the "the guardian" story or the keystone, but broadly, that they're swept up and who knows what happens to it do you think as a member of the senate intelligence committee, privy to this information, do you think there are enough rules to prevent anyone without a warrant from accessing this information? >> jake here's what i can tell you specifically because i can't get into "the guardian's" story, i can tell you last december during the debate you specifically spoke on the floor of is the united states senate about what is really cad the back-door search loophole of the act, and that's a loophole that allows for the examination of phone calls and e-mails on americans without a want form that's somebody tha

after senator wyden offers his remarks, the senior vice president of the national security program at the center will moderate a q&a session. thank you for being here. [applause] >> john, thank you for your very kind words. suffice it to say, getting an inflationary introduction from a renowned privacy hawklike john podesta is a pretty good way to start the day. i thank you for that. the center, as many of you know, has long been pursuing thoughtful intelligent policy. since opening the centerpunch stores in 2003, the center -- the center's doors in 2003, the center has been making the case that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. that work is well-known in washington and especially in my office. i commend you for it. when the patriot act was last reauthorized, i stood on the floor of the united states senate and said, i want to deliver a warning this afternoon. when the american people find out how their government has interpreted the patriot act, they are going to be stunned and they are going to be angry. for my precision on the senate position on the intended -- on th

ron wyden said the same thing. many are working to distance themselves from it because they realize it's unworkable. >> by the way, a quick note. an apology. a republican lawmaker from our introduction to the segment was actually tom cole from oklahoma, not coburn. we want to apologize. . >>> coming up next on "hannity" -- >> it's a great job. but in reality it's a dead-end job. >> another rich, lavish extravagant vacation and food workers are walking out on their jobs saying the wage is too low to work on. we're going to hear from those outraged employees. >>> and then liberal al sharpton has accused me of distorting the trouble. but i have a response for reverend al. reverend al. you don't want could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. mmmhmmm...everybody knows that. well, did you know that old macdonald was a really bad speller? your word is...cow. cow. cow. c...o...w... ...e...i...e...i...o. [buzzer] dangnabbit. geico. fifteen minutes could save you...well, you know. peace of mind is important wh

wyden, democrat from oregon, had to say. the bill is expected to come to the floor for a vote later this week. this is what the congressman had to say when he testified before the rules committee monday night about his amendment. host: so, it limits what the nsa can collect. what do you think about this amendment? should it be approved by the house of representatives? pine ridge, from south dakota. democratic caller. what do you think? caller: i'm against it. i think it is a violation of our constitutional rights. i was pretty upset whenever i heard about that. host: you think the house should go through with the vote? caller: i think they should vote against it. -- i'm at an indian reservation in pine rates, south dakota, and i think every year they are taking more and more of our constitutional rights. basic constitutional rights. i've been american all my life, paying taxes. 52 years old. working since i was 13. i have always written to senators when i was against something. but i am totally against this. to william next

here is what senator wyden said.pset about this. >> the american people find out how their government has interpreted the patriot act, they are going to be stunned and they are going to be angry. from my position on the senate intelligence committee, i have seen government activities conducted under the umbrella of the patriot act that i knew would astonish most of our people. >> now senator widen is not commenting on passwords just yet but the password scenario is the a worse scenario than what the nsa leaker ed snowden given to the press. that was data mining of phone records. so now the fear is that somebody in the government can log on as you and use your password and then get your e-mails but then do things with your password that you're not knowing b again it is up to the internet company to fight on your behalf because, it is now being settled at court level. in criminal court you could lose. you could lose to the government. the government could say, yes, we can access and get your passwords. so this is where

ron wyden said the same thing. many are working to distance themselves from it because they realize it's unworkable. >> by the way, a quick note. an apology. a republican lawmaker from our introduction to the segment was actually tom cole from oklahoma, not coburn. we want to apologize. . >>> coming up next on "hannity" -- >> it's a great job. but in reality it's a dead-end job. >> another rich, lavish extravagant vacation and food workers are walking out on their jobs saying the wage is too low to work on. we're going to hear from those outraged employees. >>> and then liberal al sharpton has accused me of distorting the trouble. but i have a response for reverend al. you don't want to miss it. straight ahead. and i have diab. when i first felt the diabetic nerve pain, of course i had no idea what it was. i felt like my feet were going to sleep. it progressed from there to burning like i was walking on hot coals... to like 1,000 bees that were just stinging my feet. i have a great relationship with my doctor... he

senator ron wyden called it, you know, what was the word he used?be gross invasion of american's privacy. this is what we ought to be look at. instead, we're ignoring what nsa is doing and playing this game about where edward snowden happens to be. as if he would stowaway on a president's plane. and just one final thing lisa, other people on twitter made this comment as well. i mean -- nobody supported barack obama more than i did. through the first four years and through this presidency. and i'm at that white house every day finding out what he's doing and giving him as much support as i can but that doesn't mean i'm a rubber stamp for everything he does. we cannot be as liberals and progressives if one of our own does something we don't agree with and we don't think is right for this country it is our duty to say it. i'm never going to be -- i wasn't for bill clinton. i wasn't for -- you name it. any president. any president. certainly not for ronald reagan or george h.w. bush or george w. bush or jimmy carter. never 100% for everything they did.

here is ron wyden. >> when the american people find out how the government interpreted the patriot act to be stunned and they are going to be angry. from my position on the senate intelligence committee, i had seen government activities conducted under the umbrella of the patriot act that i knew would astonish most of our people. >> senator wyden made those comments in advance of a vote in congress that basically did support and is allowing the u.s. government to what is called data mining of phone records but the fact that this c net report is coming out now, by the way we don't know the passwords were given over or attempts to get passwords from these companies and what information has been given. again the reports are really, is really thin on details but this comes at a time when governments overseas including governments in china and india are asking these companies to give the algorithms to passwords because they too want to do their surveilance for their own governments. dennis: the tech companies when that original big spying scandal broke out all the big tech companies said it

captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> senate intelligence committee member ron wyden is our guest this sunday on "newsmakers." the senator has been an outspoken critic of the nsa. he talks about the response in congress on including an unsuccessful vote in the house this week to halt the nsa program. at 10:00rs" is sunday a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. also a look at the immigration status of a legal immigrants who were the u.s. as children. the house judiciary subcommittee heard testimony this week about the hardships about living as an undocumented immigrant. leaders are working on a bill to address the status of the so- called dreamers. here onwatch the panel sunday at 10:35 eastern right here on c-span. >> interestingly, i think the korean war helped the south s unify themselves in a way that was not there before. communists came down, they were brutal. a lot of the south koreans turned against the communists in the north. that sort of solidified their sense of national cohesion and identity. kim il-sung waited, it is -- it isthat the south possible it

. >> said intelligence ron wyden -- senate intelligence ron wyden is the guest on newsmakers. he has been a critic of data collection programmers. he tells about the response and senate. 10:00kers is on sunday at a.m. and at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. also sunday a look at the immigration status. the house judiciary subcommittee heard testimony this week from two witnesses who described the hardships of living as undocumented immigrants. house leaders are working on a bill to address the status of dreamers. you can watch a hearing on sunday beginning at 10:35 a.m. eastern on c-span. lady reflects the schism that is and the united states about what women are supposed to be today. are we supposed to be mom in chief? or first mate? -- and the that opposed bes up -- as head of state, is the first lady supposed to be the ideal , firstista, mom in chief helpmate? is she is going to be first helpmate, she really has to understand what is going on it administration. she has to understand what is going on in the country. . she has to understand her agenda. you cannot separate how the

rncht on this weekend's news maker ron widen -- wyden of oregon. he talk about the nsa data collection program and the view on the federal government's patriot act. here's a preview what senator wyden had to say. >> all of the bipartisan votes support for an amendment in the house this week is part of the defense appropriations bill. are you working on a similar proposal with democrats and republicans in the senate? >> i'm definitely working with democrats and republicans to overall this program dramatically. there's a number of discussions already. senators on both sides of the aisle and the discussions certainly have accelerated since that extraordinary house vote. we have already a quarter of the united states senator on record saying they are interested in pursuing, certainly, the issue that are central to the debate. that's the reason we insisted on finally getting answers. the answer to your question is yes, you'll see a strong and bipartisan effort in the senate to pick up on the work of the house and to fix a problem that i think intrude on

you have senator ron wyden, an oregon democrat giving a speech at this hour. he is somebody on the senate intelligence committee who has been opposed saying these surveillance programs have gone too far. he believes the recent leaks alerted the american public to the something he has been concerned about for some time. that lead as house democrat to this point. >> i certainly think that the american people want to see better oversight and want to see frankly these programs reach a better balance between our privacy rights and our security. i think they have gone too far over into the security side. >> we've got the chair and the top republican on the senate intelligence committee coming out against this amendment. they say these surveillance programs have stopped numerous attacks. at least helped stop numerous attacks. so those two members of the senate intelligence committee are against senator wyden, another member of intelligence committee. they believe the intelligence programs, surveillance programs are critical. rick? rick: mike emanuel live in washingto

senate intelligence committee chairwoman dianne feinstein saying -- quote -- "i realize later senator wyden was asking about met at that data collection -- meta data collection. thus my response was clearly erroneous for which i apologize." >> a terror attack foiled in canada and the suspect started to use the same weapons as the boston bombings. a man and a woman are under arrest this morning. police say they planned to use several pressure cookers to set off explosions at canada day in victoria. a police found the bombs hours before thousands of people showed up at the square. police say the couple was inspired by al qaeda, but they didn't get any foreign help in plotting their attack. >> twice as nice. >> ground ball to third. throw to first and homer bailey for the second time in his major league career has tossed a no-hitter. >> cincinnati reds pitcher homeer bailey those his second career no hitter. bailey dominated the san francisco giants striking out nine in the reds 3-0 win last night in cincinnati. bailey's second no hitter since september of last year, in fact, he's thrown the l

testifying are working under the aegis of the director who when confronted bay question of senator ron wydenting data on hundreds of americans, director clapper said no. a flat out lie which he tried to defend as a small untruth. >> he said not wittingly. >> not wittingly. and he has a trillion dollars of megabits unwittingly but we are to rely on their self assessment of whether these technologies exist. we need outside auditing of what the nsa has been doing all of these years. the nsa at present doesn't have someone who is not part of their overall program examine whether they are complying that they not look at the contents of information unless they have reasonable suspicion or otherwise and why would we expect an agency to call its own people to account? >> in a letter to the justice department, to the obama administration you describe what your son did as civil disobedience. some say civil disobedience is accepting the ramifications of your actions, of the decision, of taking the punishment. why do you see this as civil disobedience. >> first of all, i think he is accepting the conseq

jeff merkley and ron wyden voted present. we'll see what that means in the coming days.e can't survive on 11.25. that was the cry across the country. workers in seven cities walked off of the job at fast-food outlets. it was the latest of a series of one-day strikes that have spread across the country in recent months. $7.25, is roughly $109, rent is 70, gas is 30, and i'm at a deficit. >> michael: on friday president obama told the "new york times" that he wants lawmakers focused on, quote, how are we increasing middle class incomes and middle class wages? if we are not talking about that, we are talking about the wrong thing. for now it looks like he is talking to himself. back with us now, bill press and jason johnson. bill, even obama is talking about middle class wages, not working class, $7.25 wages. will these protests change the conversation in washington? >> i think they will. these are some of the most exploited workers in this country, first of all not all of them are making minimum wage. those that are making minimum wage are still only pulling down $15,000 a

portion of our interview with senator wyden. you can watch the entire interview tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern time. there is a new nominee for homeland security deputy secretary. his name is all honcho mallorca is. republican members of bessette members of- committee were no-shows the key is under investigation for misusing his current decision as the tractor of the u.s. services. he has denied wrongdoing. here is that senate confirmation hearing. it is about one hour and 40 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to this hearing. welcome, secretary mayorkas. welcome to senator feinstein. and certainly welcome to our colleagues on the committee, especially senator landrieu, who has agreed to say a few words about you before we get started. senator feinstein and senator landrieu have a markup going on right now. they have come here to introduce secretary mayorkas. we are grateful you could come. >> thank you, and i appreciate the courtesy, so thank you. it is a pleasure for me to introduce president obama's nom

in march he told ron wyden of oregon the nsa did not willingly collect data on millions of americans.oes the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not read >> not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly or yet >> james clapper has admitted now he was making false statements and has apologized to lawmakers. he sent a letter to the senate committee last month saying he missed understood the question saying -- >> and he is clearly holding his head. this something edward snowden can use in making his case to the public saying, because of my revelations, one of your top officials was forced to admit he was lying to congress or at least ms. spoke to congress? this is a story i don't see analyzed by the mainstream media here. you could be avoiding a serious issue of lying. not only in the case of james clapper, but also it is known that 26 senators from both arteries have demanded clarification from the nsa. they are basically saying, [indiscernible] the congress was su

a top senate democrat ron wyden says documents show, quote, the executive branch repeatedly made inaccurate statements to congress about the value and effectiveness of the bulk e-mail records collection program. he had this exchange with a top intelligence official in march. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly. >>> with obama care sputtering to get off the ground and the rest of his domestic agenda in peril, president obama did something today he hasn't done too often, made a trip to capitol hill to ask congress for help. he talked to democrats, shunned republicans, and moved a step closer to the epic battles expected to play out when summer comes to an end. we have fox team coverage, james rosen, on what republicans are cooking up. we begin with ed henry on the president's new recipe for success. good evening, ed. >> good evening. the president said this was about jobs and the middle class. in private,

. >> reporter: senator ron wyden, member of the intelligence committee, warned all will live to regrett if lawmakers don't seize this moment to reform surveillance laws. >> this means the government's authority to collect information on law abiding americans is essentially limitless. >> reporter: he says the obama administration said they would detrikt fisa court opinions to educate the public but hasn't lived up to the transparency pledge. >> the administration agreed with me that the rulings needed to be made public. in the last four years, exactly zero opinions have been released. >> reporter: bipartisan leaders of senate intelligence committee, dianne feinstein, saxby chambliss say any attempts to defund it would not be wise. that's not likely to stop lawmakers seeking to squeeze the nsa. bret? >> mike, thank you. >>> rebels fighting the civil war in syria, that's claimed by some estimates more than 100,000 lives desperately need things to turn around and turn around fast. the obama administration has said as much and aid is coming, but how they go about it and whether it would eve

in its twows, this leading critics of nsa surveillance, ron wyden and mark udall, confirmed the expansion of what constitutes relevant is what they've meant a long accusing the government of a secret interpretation of the patriot act. protests were held across the u.s. on the fourth of july to protest war lesson sweeping government surveillance. called by a new group restore the fourth, a reference to the constitutional protection against illegal search and seizure. hundreds turned out in dozens of cities including san francisco, los angeles, new york city, and washington, d.c. the electronic privacy information center is filing an emergency petition asking the supreme court to halt their collection of phone records. the group says their suit is the first to directly challenge the authority of fisa courts. the rise the collection phone data under the patriot act. nsa spyingry over continues, the u.s. postal service is under scrutiny for surveillance program of its own. the new york times has revealed the has been carrying out a male isolation control and tracking program, which photograph

. >> and mark udall and ron wyden say in our opinion the government's on-going, overly broad collection is not authorized under a straightforward interpretation of the patriot act or any other law. the white house ought to end this dragnet, sharpen focus on terrorists and spies that threaten our security. they will suffer if the nsa stops collecting data according to republican chair of the house intelligence committee. >> in this program, zero privacy violations, 54 terrorist, violent terrorist attacks thwarted. >> and saxby chambliss says he is assured nobody a nsa has the ability to any phone conversation or monitor any e-mail without a court order. harris? >> peter doocy, thank you. >>> anthony weiner is still running for mayor, amid the sexting scandal. now he needs a new campaign manager because the guy quit today. weiner, former u.s. congressman who had to repeatedly apologize for sending explicit text messages to women who were not his wife said today his campaign remains strong. >> i have worked in some campaigns over my life, the most remarkable group of people i have ever bee

testifying are working under the egis of the director who when confronted with a question, by senator ron wydenare you collecting date on on millions of americans, hundreds of millions -- director clapper said no. a flat out lie, which he tried to defend as a small untruth. >> he said, not wittingly. >> not wittingly. he has a trillion of mega bits unwittingly. we're to rely upon their self-assessment as to whether or not these technologies exist? we need outside auditing of what the nsa has been doing all these years. the nsa at present doesn't have someone who's not part of their overall program, examine whether they are complying with the content of information, unless we have some reasonable suspicion or otherwise, and why would we expect an agency to call its own people to account 37. >> in a letter to the justice department, you describe what your son did as civil disobedience. there are those who say, look, civil disobedience is accepting the ramifications of your actions of your decision, of taking the punishment, why do you see this as civil disobedience. >> first of all, i think he is

. >> our guest on "newsmakers" is senator ron wyden. he is a member of the house intelligence committee. he has been a critic of the national security agency and its scope of data gathering. we invited him because there has been so much going on including a close house vote that aimed to somewhat curtailed the nsa and its data gathering methods. ed o'keefe is a congressional reporter for "the washington post." >> you are one of the most vocal opponents. in march you raise the red flag for many of us when you wrote a letter with senator udall. americans would be stunned to know the extent of summit this government ease dropping. this is before edward snowden came out and revealed many of the details of the telephone and internet surveillance programs.

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there are all sorts of admissions, including this week in a letter to senator wyden that it exceeded the legal authority it acknowledges it has. and they write it off to inadvertent key strokes. the realy issue is they have de this in complete secrecy. nobody monitors who they're eavesdropping on. the question of abuse is one congress should be investigating. >> i know you have been in contact with snowden, it seems he's prepared to stay in russia, will that be possible and what russia will decide? >> well, i think that what has happened is the united states is applying lots of pressure. it's probably at this point pending and will pend for a few more days or weeks before he gets the papers that he needs. but i thing at this point, he's happy there is to news out of russia. that allows the focus to be where he wants it to be, which is on the revelations on what they're doing, the incredible debate in the house of representatives this week where liberals and conservatives joined together to oppose nsa abuses. i think he's content with having nothing happen so the focus isn't on him, b