according to british newspaper, the guardian, our national security agency obtained a secret court order forcing verdes, the company, verizon, to turn over the telephone records of millions of americans, millions, not just afy, not just a few, millions, the white house is having to react to this. our dan lothian jones us now from washington. i can only imagine, there is damage control. make no mistake, this is not the first time this has happened. this is huge to hear this many people, their data is being checked and it all happens in secret. what itself the white house saying? reporter: that s right. and this is the kind of story i think that gets the attention of a lot of people. everyone has a phone. they make calls. they re concerned within they hear a story like this, is the government listening to my conversation? i should point out the administration the o bomb ma administration is not confirming or denying the existence of this order. because this is something that