that we re doing. but, of course, the lindsay grahams of the world are thrilled with that, because that s the mentality in which this is all rooted. glen, you broke last night s story through the british newspaper, the guardian tonight s story, teaming up with requesti the washington post. tell us about these new developments tonight and the capacity to collect information from google and apple and facebook. well, in 2008, the united states congress on a bipartisan basis created a new spying law called the fisa amendments act. and what it did was eliminated the warrant requirement for the u.s. government to eavesdrop on all conversations, except ones between americans domestically. when an american talks to american, you still need a warrant. but otherwise if an american talks to somebody outside the u.s., they don t. and what this program does, and that law was renewed in 2012. what this program is does is, when that law was passed, people
the idea is that the government should simply know everything that citizens in a free society are doing, regardless of whether there is evidence that we have committed any crimes. there was a huge investigation in the 1970s call the church committee, and what it discovered was that whenever surveillance powers are exercised in the dark, the government lies about the reasons that they re surrender veiling and they abuse that power. they eaves dropped on political leaders like martin luther king and dissidents and opponents of the administration. and the idea that if you have nothing to hide, then there s no reason you should care. people know instinctively that s false. they put passwords on their e-mails, locks on their bedroom doors. there s all kinds of value we have in having privacy as individuals that is destroyed when we allow the government to monitor and store everything that we re doing. but, of course, the lindsay grahams of the world are thrilled with that, because that s th
0 for a live show since doing this on monday night. we do not know what his act of bravery will cost him. whether he knew that bravery would be part of what was breaking news tonight in the ongoing story of the government s collection of your data. glen greenwald, the man who broke the story about the nsa collecting records of all verizon phone calls, is breaking another big story tonight about your personal data that the government is collecting. but first, another day, another darrell issa hearing on the irs. the house oversight and government reform committee is holding another hearing on the irs. we ve only had six hearings on the irs. shouldn t we have more? the laws exclusively exclusively involved in the social welfare. the laws exclusively in the implementing regulation is primary. the regulation says primarily. why don t you have to follow the law? i don t want to presuppose what the interpretation of exclusivity is. i have a regulation that i have to abide
0 enough, like, logs in the fire to keep this burning for very long. no page 2. there s not a page 2. and they have now, let s be clear. they have tried to, like, turn it over to, like, star trek videos and offsite conferences and stuff. for which we thank them. for which us in cable news like star trek videos, which is why they have been successful. but this specific issue has burned itself out. darrell issa is not going to stop. he, darrell issa, accused the irs of malicious self indulgence. let s unpack that. darrell issa accused someone else of malicious self indulgence. i m dropping my mic on that. he was a little kind of pot and kettle thing. maybe, just perhaps. so here is the what they want to turn it into at minimum, even if it leaves center stage of washington hearing rooms and all of that. and that is what the chairman of the florida republican party put out in a memo, advice to republicans about how to exploit the irs story. i encourage you to use this i
0 and a lot of people didn t expect us to get past the second round. and, you know, we fought. we fought all the way up until this point. but louisville was a better team today and they were deserving of the win. hey, hey. good morning, it s tuesday, april 9th, welcome to morning joe. congratulations to louisville. i m too old to stay up that late to watch these games anymore. we ll watch highlights later on. right. we ll pretend we were very moved by the triumph of the human spirit. adversity. tough season. with us now, jon meacham, the author of thomas jefferson: the art of power, the book that pushed bill o reilly out of the number one spot. where do you go if you re bill o reilly? where do you go? who do you kill next? caesar. roger no? i ll tell you what, there are a lot of books coming out. that s right. and there are times he s wanted to write that book. we have al hunt with us, as well. he s a columnist for bloomberg view and has not written a book w