consequence, what is your message to the communities? do know something about directive clapper. a chancenow if you had to read the letters to the new york times. it is wrong to say he lied. even a dog knows the difference between being tripped and being kicked over. cuttingans you are false intentionally. i -- da i the di

guest: i do not know what you are talking about. i could talk about the airline which is not part of the appropriations bill. it is in the intelligence authorization bill, and it absolutely does not do what people have said it does. it does not give any authority to the nsa to do anything. what it does in fact, it imposes restrictions on the -- on surveillance. what it says is when you collect information about americans, regardless of the authority you collect it under, whether it is under fisa or any other authority, you must limit the retention of that. i do not know why people that to give

the difference between this and other things is there was not a crime committed here. >> do you think it should have been handled differently? >> yes. what would have been the right way to do it would be sent a declassified letter to the committee, saying i miss spoke but i cannot reveal it on a public record. one of the things i regret in five-and-a-half years on the job is i do not advise them to do that. >> if there is public testimony there should be at least some public marker that there is a classified addendum to some testimony to that hearing. there shallem is

saying. >> the question is did he do it in public before the disclosed -- before the disclosure? he didn't. we talked about this immediately after the hearing. if you read his answer, you see he is clearly a 702 program -- clearly thinking about the 702 program. i had conversations about this. you essentially would have to reveal the program that was still classified. it was wrong and kind of annoying that people continue to repeat this statement that he lied. the difference between this and