rubber stamp. the fact that the fisa court is reviewing this and that's been yew as the imp ra matt you are imprimatur, and finally in terms of metadata, people shouldn't be rest assured by that. you can get a lot more from the metadata than you can get from the content, i i know is counterintuitive, but the case. >> back to dana bash, soon the chairman mike rogers will make this opening statement. do you think he'll look, you know -- he knows the american people are watching this hearing. will he look out and say this program is definitely needed and the general will tell us why? >> reporter: absolutely. it's kind of ironic. he says a republican, and he has been probably one of the biggest