speak about it. i m doing this because this is hurting our country badly. reporter: but many of rubio s fellow republicans are not buying that argument. positions seem to be hardening against it, rather than softening for it. and it was likened to obama care today. it can be very tough ultimately to get it to the president s desk, which clearly they have to do. i m pretty sure that s not a compliment. dana bash, thank you so much for that. not so much. let s bring in gloria borger and candy crowley. it s fine how it all comes back to border security. always. why is that? you and i were talking before the show. i think john mccain discovered that when he was for immigration reform, ran for president in 2000, went out there on the campaign trail and all people were talking about was enforcing the border.
vetted snowden is under criminal investigation. senator, thanks for being here. first off, if these private contractors do such a bad job of vetting individuals as they apparently did with edward snowden, why should the american public feel comfortable that hcess to all this personal data about us? well, that s one of the things we tried to cover in the hearing today. i think many people in congress have not spent enough time oversight on this particular function of government, and that is security clearances. when are we requiring? how are we getting them? who is paying for it? and what kind of metrics are we using the make sure they re being successful? really this is a big black hole in terms of overnight and we re just beginning to scratch the surface on improvements that we re going to have to look at to make sure sys thim americans can trust. the guardian newspaper which has broken so many of these stories with documents provided
by edward snowden has some new documents out there about fisa, the secret foreign surveillance intelligence court. i don t expect you ve had time to read them. the guardian says they re able to get access to inadvertent information and there allowed to keep it, according to the document itself, if these communications contain, quote, usable intelligence, information on criminal activity, threat of harm to people or property, the information is encrypted or they re believed to contain any information relevant to cyber security. the judgment of the guardian newspaper is that that sounds like it contradicts what we ve heard from some many members of the obama administration including the president in terms of their not collecting calls and e mams from americans unless they get a warrant. are you at all concerned, if not with this specific aspect of it,
compromise it, tried to tweak it, mold it to whatever best suits them financially or whatever reason, excuse me, reason, but it s still the constitution. it s still what we are founded on. greta: what is your theory or why do you think that we ve had this these incidents like the movie theater in aurora, colorado, the shooting in newtown, connecticut. the brutal shootings in these like individual shootings in chicago and people have been highlighting what s going on, chicago, especially a lot of the young people in chicago. what s your thinking behind why are we seeing this violence? what s the cause or is there one cause? well, there s a lot of different causes. you can if you look at each of the people that are doing it, you go back to the you know, they re talking to movies, the games, desensitizing the children to where they re actually growing up and a lot of them do it don t realize what they ve been doing, they ve been doing it every day on a game, but i had the chanc
compromise it, tried to tweak it, mold it to whatever best suits them financially or whatever reason, excuse me, reason, but it s still the constitution. it s still what we are founded on. greta: what is your theory or why do you think that we ve had this these incidents like the movie theater in aurora, colorado, the shooting in newtown, connecticut. the brutal shootings in these like individual shootings in chicago and people have been highlighting what s going on, chicago, especially a lot of the young people in chicago. what s your thinking behind why are we seeing this violence? what s the cause or is there one cause? well, there s a lot of different causes. you can if you look at each of the people that are doing it, you go back to the you know, they re talking to movies, the games, desensitizing the children to where they re actually growing up and a lot of them do it don t realize what they ve been doing, they ve been doing it every day on a game, but i had the chanc