in denial about what is happening. i think that is the case that you hear the republicans making. now it is a lot easier to run for president than to be president. and the republicans are all very critical of this administration. but what would they do differently? what is the real thing they would differently? their tone would be different. there s no question their tone would be different. donald trump said he would bomb the [ expletive ] out of isis. president obama said we re doing some bombing. more troops? lindsey graham said that. the surveillance issue is a big debate with marco rubio going after ted cruz who said, like rand paul, voted to e limit the government s priority. it is starting to seem like a long time ago 9/11. but this is making it so fresh in the minds. so rand paul any potential of any argument this libertarianism and the privacy debate. i think that is out the window here.
but we re going to. eboni williams a political analyst, mercedes schlapp mcstrategist former spokesperson for president george w. bush. all right, eboni, i think it was proven that that really did not happen, here in the united states. it may have happened in middle eastern countries where it there was cheering after 9/11, but there seems to be no evidence it happened in new jersey. what are we to make of that? pretty much everybody including governor chris christie can t seal to recall this. you would think it would be documented in today s high-tech society. here s the point. i want to put on a legal analysis of what mr. trump is talking about. surveillance issue, fine, legally you can watch anybody. but what we want to do is make something effective. i think your previous guest s idea of something based on this legal requirement of reasonable suspicion, that gets us closer to something that s actually going to make us safer. so we can watch all we want, but if they re not going
brighter. bigger. thinner. even curvier. but what s next? for all binge watchers. movie geeks. sports freaks. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. french police launched more than 150 raids overnight as part of the manhunt going on. joining me now to discuss what intelligence agencies can legally gather. msnbc chief legal correspondent ari melber, who has spent years digging into the surveillance issue. let s talk first about france. because france has different laws than the united states. what can they do?
stealing and disseminating classified material. this court case does not change any of that. the court ruling is also now not the end on this subject. this part of the patriot act which has authorized nsa spying of a wholesale variety. there s now a split in the various appeals courts on the issue of the constitutionality of that program, so the program will probably head upstairs to the supreme court fairly soon. congress, though, is already considering scrapping the program or scaling it back or changing it somehow. the program has to be reauthorized within the next few weeks, anyway. so both the law and the politics on the surveillance issue are still tbd. but if you are in the mood for a big, giant, polarizing and dramatic national security fight, i ve got just the thing. and this is something that isn t happening in the courts. it s cooking at the white house. apparently right now. and we ve got that story next. sweet mother of softness. charmin!!! take a closer look at charmin ul
court ruled today that that program is in fact illegal. constitutionally they say that program cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it. so does this mean that edward snowden will come home from russia now and, i don t know, collect his giant head from those guys in brooklyn? probably not. he s still facing charges of stealing and disseminating classified material. this court case does not change any of that. the court ruling is also now not the end on this subject. this part of the patriot act which has authorized nsa spying of a wholesale variety. there s now a split in the various appeals courts on the issue of the constitutionality of that program, so the program will probably head upstairs to the supreme court fairly soon. congress, though, is already considering scrapping the program or scaling it back or changing it somehow. the program has to be reauthorized within the next few weeks, anyway. so both the law and the politics on the surveillance issue are st