killing terrorists, and intimidating al qaeda, in breaking up the organization. my objections, my chief objections first of all, we are killing a lot more people than we did when we were going in and seizing terrorists. and interrogating them. but my biggest objection is which nicole touched earlier today that somehow this is a clean sanitized version of what george w. bush was doing for eight years. anybody who is telling themselves that it is is lying to themselves. okay. we are going to debate this later because we are running out of time in this block, but i don t see anybody saying this is clean and sanitary. i want to knock that down a little bit because i think it s a very difficult decision. it s a different one. every decision when it comes to torture and intelligence gathering and war has a repercussion but nobody is saying it s clean. it does have a repercussion but this policy was put in place because people were offended by
saying? some were comparing verizon to nazi war criminals. the screaming and hand-wringing was unbelievable. i m not so sure, from what i m reading here, that this is even more indiscriminate than what the bush administration was caught doing in 2006. again, you can go to surveillance of reporters. you can go to drone war fare. they can wring their hands but it seems all fairly hollow and i suspect you re not going to see much change in policy, chuck. no. i don t think you will. because they will always do that whole, you know, use the umbrella of national security and it s an umbrella protection and it might be enough for some in the public. i don t know if it s enough for all. chuck, chau. see you coming up on the daily rundown. howard thank you for the definition of t.s. it was helpful. still ahead a new report
the patriot act. the fbi granted permission to do this. what is unusual is the unlimited scope of it and it s not targeted and they are not looking at specific people and asking for their phone records. this is to say over three-month period beginning in late april and extending through the end of july that the government gets all of the phone records from verizon and we don t know, as glenn points out in the piece, if there are other phone companies as well who may be handing over their data, but, nicole, you and i were talking about this. you had a little bit of a different take on this. it rendered ludicrous the notion that barack obama ran as the anti-george w. bush. he has now accelerated and intensified almost every single anti-terror policy that was ever imagined by the bush administration. so, you know, on its face, i m not offended by steps that we take to look for people doing bad things. joe, if you re not calling anybody dodgy, i wouldn t wore about them looking at your v
reporting that anthony bosch at the center of the investigation asked a-rod for financial help after an mlb lawsuit against him in march. the daily news says that rodriguez denied bosch the request for money in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. shortly thereafter, bosch approached mlb willing to cooperate on this case. some of alex rodriguez teammates were asked about the allegations. mariano rivera and cc sabathia would support rodriguez no matter the outcome. mark teixeira was less enthusiastic speaking on the report from the new york times, quote, i think this is embarrassing and it s all speculation but if it is true it s not good for the game. we are supposed to be good example for kids and fans. one thing if we didn t have a tough. we have had had a tough policy a long time and if that many guys are still cheating it s very disappointing and no excuse for it. in the late 90s you could claim
8 past the hour. 28 past of the hour. time to look at the morning tapes. usa today. the tsa is dropping its effort to allow small knives on planes. the change comes after a wave of opposition from flight attendants and family of terrorist attack victims. the agency hopes the policy would allow screeners to focus on more serious threats like explosives. that was short-lived. yeah. from the parade of papers susan g. komen will cancel three-day walk in district. miami herald. the winner of the 590.5 million dollar powerball jackpot has come forward. that s a lot of money.