range 124 in death valley. how is that? alisyn: that s hot. clayton: president obama feeling the heat out west. he was in california, too. not only hot, temperature hot, it s also a little hot under the collar having to deal with the latest snooping scandal, of course, as we learn this massive treasure trove of data being collected by the nasa. the president though yesterday taking to the podium and basically saying it s all about trust. if you trust your government look, you have nothing to worry about, listen. you can complain about big brother and how this is a potential, you know, program run amuck. but when you actually look at the details, then i think we have struck the right balance. if people can t trust not only the executive branch but also don t trust congress and don t trust federal judges to make sure that we are abiding by the constitution, due process and rule of law, then we
are involved this these programs, they operate like professionals. and these things are very narrowly snarro narrownarro narrowly circumscribed. in the abstract you can complain about big brother and how this is a potential, you know, program run amuck, but when you actually look at the details, then i think we ve struck the right balance. thank you very much, guys. that s it. thank you. the president of the united states walking off stage there in san jose, california, a health care event. but what the president ended up talking most about at the end he said he would take one, he came back for a second question about big news in the headlines in recent days. government eavesdropping, government surveillance, government gathering you might say millions of phone calls and e-mail records and the wall street journal reports credit
a potential you know program run amuck, when you actually look at the details, then i think we have struck the right balance. particularly difficult for the president to make that case now though because of other alleged abuses of power from the irs to the james rosen case. this is not happening in a vacuum. it s happening after a series of other charges that the government is overreaching right now, shep. shepard: there are republican criticisms, crack criticisms and most of those doing the criticizing don t seem to be buying these explanations. that s right. now, there are some lawmakers on the hill some republicans like lindsey l the details here terror concerns outweigh it but other republicans like james sensenbrenner architect of the patriot act sure. wants to go every a the terrorists the scope of this is so wide that it s just rife with potential abuse. take a listen.