occur. i mean, is he lying about this, too? the nsa stuff, joe? no, look. i think look, the fact is as president, you have got to balance national security and privacy. and i don t think there is any way any president can win on this right now on the left there are people like me on the left you get attacked because any changes he made come on they were ridiculous in terms of actually doing anything to change privacy. add to that. he is actually being defended by the right. a lot of the former bush guys, he criticized are coming out and sticking up for him. his problem is, as joe points out within the own party and the public. 75 million people are against this whole telephone program and also in his party he had 111 democratic
not intentionally. now in the letter clapper says in his head he was thinking about the internet program, the so-called section 705 program, which looks at overseas internet exchanges, e-mails and so forth, not the telephone program. after the hearing he says i realize i should have talked about the telephone program. he said he sent a letter to senator weiden and his staff but he couldn t make it public until all the revelations about the program. now he s saying 702 i should have said, not 705. he s decided to make this public now. that s his explanation. pete, senator widen revealed that his office sent in represe preparation the questions in advance so he knew what questions would be coming his way so he could be fully prepped to answer them and those responses. nonetheless he says that he had the internet program on his mind, that it had been just
president obama but listen here, he does defend the government s surveillance. i m obviously not a fan of the incumbent president. i don t know what he did to the program. the program obviously from what s now been released. i think it s good that it s in operation. i think it has, in fact, saved lives and kept us free from other attacks. critics of the obama administration continuing these policies, most of them to the president s left, say these were implemented by the bush white house and why is this democratic president keeping them? the president addressed those critics last night. some people talking about obama was this raving liberal before, now he s dick cheney. dick cheney sometimes said yeah, he took it lock, stock and barrel. my concern has always been, not that we shouldn t do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather are we setting up a systems of checks and balances. so on this telephone program,
i think it has, in fact, saved lives and kept us free from other attacks. critics of the obama administration continuing these policies, most of them to the president s left, say these were implemented by the bush white house and why is this democratic president keeping them? the president addressed those critics last night. some people talking about obama was this raving liberal before, now he s dick cheney. dick cheney sometimes said yeah, he took it lock, stock and barrel. my concern has always been, not that we shouldn t do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather are we setting up a systems of checks and balances. so on this telephone program, you ve got a federal court with independent federal judges overseeing the entire program, and you ve got congress overseeing the program. not just the intelligence committee. not just the judiciary committee, but all of congress had available to it before the last reauthorization exactly how this program worked.
the incumbent president. i don t know who he did to the program. the program, obviously, from what s been released is still in operation. i think it s good that it s in operation. i think it has in fact, saved lives and kept us free from other attacks. critics now of the obama administration continuing this policy, most of them to the president s left said these were implemented by the bush white house and why is the democratic president keeping them. he addressed them last night talking to charlie rose. some people say obama was this raving liberal before and now he s dick cheney and dick cheney says yeah, you know, he took it lock, stock and barrel. my concern has been not that we shouldn t do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism but rather, are we setting up a systems of checks and balances? so on this telephone program, you ve got a federal court with independent federal judges overseeing the entire program, and you ve got congress