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it is legal when you look at the law. there is a process by which i pointed out this oversight that exists to make sure it stays within the law, but, you know, a lot of people having pointing out this did take place under the bush administration but what seems to be a little different this time is what we are talking about is gathering records on calls within the united states. in the past, what we were looking at are foreign phone calls, maybe having some link back to the ung. this is solely calls that are taking place within the united states, ashleigh. by the way, dan, i want to clarify that comment that randy milch made from verizon. it wasn t a statement to us. this was a statement to its own employees cnn was able obtainment you are right, they are not commenting publicly, they re talking to their ploy i don t see other than to say the law is the law. we gots to do what we have to do. dan lothian at the white house, thank you for that. a moment of joy for you, for
here. effectively, randy milch and executive counsel, we have no accuracy on the guardian newspaper story or the documents referenced, but a few items in these stories are important. and i just want to go on to say verizon continually takes steps to safedpard its customers privacy. nevertheless the law authorizes the federal courts to order a company to provide information in certain circumstances and if verizon were to receive such an order, we would be required to comply. here s what is so fascinating. just go back another administration and democrats were up in arms about the put aiot act and the civil libertys that we were all going to suffer, you know, an encroachment on, but it s very interesting to see dianne feinstein suggest that this is all legal, this happened and it s just meta-data. is that what we were expecting? reporter: i think so.