in addition, the president must explain in full the prism program. is the federal government collecting the emails of americans and storing them? yes or no mr. president? finally, the president must order any irs official involved in targeting conservatives to testify fully in front of congress or resign. it is barack obama s obligation to run this country honestly. and to explain to the folks complicated matters and serious allegations. just saying he will get to the bottom of things is not nearly enough. we need presidential leadership on these serious situations now. mr. obama does not clarify all of the controversies, he will go down in history as u.s. grant. a scandal ridden president who lost control of the office. there is no longer any doubt the federal government is deeply involved in situations that are harming the american people. and this must stop immediately. the president of congress cannot concentrate on serious issues like immigration reform, soft economy, iran and the
bill: look into that, look into the irs, we are going to look into the prism program. look into it that s congressional judicial and executive signed off. bill: what if they were violating it and taking email. no indication they were violating the law. the law might have been bad. bill: no, no, the whistleblower says they were violated quite clearly. the whistleblower. do you dislike. i don t dislike. bill: you don t believe him. the scandals, the only thing that it says about the former secretary of state is that there was a rumor that she asked her head of security he had ever used a prostitute. let s stop the government there. there is a rumor that the secretary asked. bill: don t you see scandal de jour. don t you see one after the other after the other after the other. i think people with fantasies that are trying to get them to play out. bill: you don t see any no, i took the irs story seriously. the state department has taken this seriously and ha
seriously. bill: look into that, look into the irs, we are going to look into the prism program. look into it that s congressional judicial and executive signed off. bill: what if they were violating it and taking email. no indication they were violating the law. the law might have been bad. bill: no, no, the whistleblower says they were violated quite clearly. the whistleblower. do you dislike. i don t dislike. bill: you don t believe him. the scandals, the only thing that it says about the former secretary of state is that there was a rumor that she asked her head of security he had ever used a prostitute. let s stop the government there. there is a rumor that the secretary asked. bill: don t you see scandal de jour. don t you see one after the other after the other after the other. i think people with fantasies that are trying to get them to play out. bill: you don t see any no, i took the irs story seriously. the state department has taken this serio
important is what he is talking about which is the bill of rights, the fourth amendment, the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. that does rise to a very high level for me. then you have to ask yourself he is practicing civil disobedience and many times in our history we have honored people who have done that. i m reserving judgment on that. i am worried on the one hand about people who release information, who might get people killed in the field, i don t think this rises to that. i think he released information to say, look, the bill of rights is being ignored. and i think that in many ways is a noble gesture because is he having to give up a great deal to be on the run. bill: you would agree with me though we can t have anarchy and everybody deciding what national security secrets to leak to the guardian newspaper or the the washington post there has got to be some orderly process if he he does it is an act of civil disobedience come in and explain it and prov
we need those secret court opinions to figure this out. one of the things that has been unclear about which there seems to be conflicting information reported is the role of internet companies in essentially facilitating the delivery of this information to the government. microsoft, google and facebook coming out today asking the obama administration for permission to disclose publicly the kinds of demands from the government they are getting for their data. do you think the government should be allowing them to be more transparent about the requests they re getting? well, this is the other side. you have the phone and records provision and then you have the prism program which was much more hidden, if you will. i feel like i don t have a good grip on its full extent. and here s the confusion. it appears, from what was leaked, that all sorts of companies are cooperating.