with us. you just heard what james clapper told exclusively to andrea mitchell. what s your action. he used the word hyperbole, do you believe it is hyperbole? no question. they have used everything they could think of for programs in terms of investigation and the fact that there s scandals. always has been hist tore clay close line to have to make decisions between national securities and the freedom of the press. quite frankly, i don t think anyone was disturbed, the president made it clear, and i don t know that he has, that we have to do these things and it was cleared through the congressional intel jens committee to accumulate this information, not to listen in, but to accumulate this information because that is the best way for us to deter rearist plots, now, if there s some report they re wants to get a
and killing people and destroying our symbols. on the issue of congressional calls to make a change here to do something, how will you respond to efforts that might be made here? i was trying to make efforts when we had the patriot act and presidents, republican and democrats have always asked for the authority with oversight by the intelligence committee. i heard carefully that the president has said that the house intelligence committee, which is controlled by republicans, was fully aware of this operation. as a matter of fact, i m pretty certain that the chairman of that committee has already said he supported the president in what he was doing. so, they have a balance, i really don t like overreach in terms of the privacy of americans. you re on board with this, on board this though. i m on board with this because this president has demonstrated a success in terms of war against al qaeda. i mean, he s got bin laden, retracting the troops from these
couple of weeks here, that pulse away from the messaging coming out of the white house. how might these controversies, the irs and the nsa, help or hurt the bill s momentum? you know, it s been helping. in a lot of ways, it helped the bill get through some of the critical stages with the committee. all the attention was off of this bill so they could just work and there wasn t there wasn t as much pressure. now that the focus now that the they are debating this on the floor, going to be a little bit, see increasing focus on this, from the public. and especially when you have bills like steve king s that passed last week in the white house, that would end with it would rescind the president s executive orderer for allowing dreamers to stay in the united states. so, i think there will be pieces that draw public attention and that i mean, it depends on which chamber we are talking about, whether that helps or hurts the bill, i guess the long and short of t reed are you were me