bring the issue of hacking and cyber security to the forefront. clemency. he is wanted on flown charges for disclosing the nsa collection program. serving a 35 year prison term for disclosing hundreds of thousands of classified and unclassified documents to wikileaks. joining me now my co-host on the five is kimberly guilfoyle. k.g., you and i may see differently on snowden. i look at him as a whistle blower, you may not. you may or may not agree. we have taken different positions a little bit on this on the five. you think he is a whistle blower. i think he is somebody who should be prosecuted for what he did in terms of turning over the secrets that are important and relevant as it relates to national security here. so then the question remains how does president obama see it obviously a petition forward to get reprieve prior to president obama s eminent departure.
bring the issue of hacking and cyber security to the forefront. clemency. he is wanted on flown charges for disclosing the nsa collection program. serving a 35 year prison term for disclosing hundreds of thousands of classified and unclassified documents to wikileaks. joining me now my co-host on the five is kimberly guilfoyle. k.g., you and i may see differently on snowden. i look at him as a whistle blower, you may not. you may or may not agree. we have taken different positions a little bit on this on the five. you think he is a whistle blower. i think he is somebody who should be prosecuted for what he did in terms of turning over the secrets that are important and relevant as it relates to national security here. so then the question remains how does president obama see it obviously a petition forward to get reprieve prior to president obama s
which may be preventing you from getting the sleep you need. talk to your doctor about ways to manage your insomnia. presidential contender senator rand paul is here and today a federal appeals court in a 3-0 ruling held that the nsa collection program is illegal and not covered by the patriot act. senator, welcome to the show and your thoughts on this 3-zip ruling by the second circuit. this is a big deal. we ve been waiting for this for over a year now. i sued the nsa last year because i think that the whole program really is not consistent with the fourth amendment and what we find out today is that the supreme court thinks it s not even consistent with the patriot act, which also goes on to mention that many people this congress had no idea this program was going on, and most of us don t think that this program is consistent with what the patriot act actually said.
electricity one week after that massive ice storm slammed the midwest. that system also being blamed for problems in the northeast. some 4,000 remain without power in maine. now another blast of winter targeting the area this weekend could cause more outages. and 1.3 million americans receivi receiving unemployment benefits will see them expire today if congress does not act. two judges making conflicting rulings on the legality of the nsa s sweeping surveillance practices of snooping on all of us. a federal judge in new york dismissed the case saying the nsa s data collection program is legal. this comes one week after a federal judge in d.c. ruled that same program likely violates the constitution. a final decision could be decided by the supreme court. joining us live, congressman
in organized cases, child pornography cases. and there s far more scrutiny of the nsa. considering the nature of the threat against us, when you balance out the equities, it s clearly on the side of the nsa. i don t think any americans want to be unprotected when it comes to terrorist threats, but the issue is how do you go about that fairly and have people feel like their liberties are not being fringed upon. the district court judge said this, surely such a program infringes on that degree of privacy that the founders enshrined in the fourth amendment. so how do you do both? i think everyone s rights are being protected. no one s phone calls are being listened to by the nsa. there are no names or addresses. we have a list of phone number to phone number. the only time the nsa goes