reporter carol lenik joins us. the story on "the washington post" online at 8:48 p.m.ut the fisa court. the way i read your story is that the court says it's at the mercy of the government giving its information. is that a fair description? >> that's pretty fair, but of course, i was a figure that you would discern quickly in front of the court. i think also as well the court is responding to the information obtained by the paper, which shows that compliance violations are extremely high, that the querying of the database of americans telephone and internet records involve thousands of violations in the year's time and the court reasonable is saying that it has limitations on the extent to which it it can police that and fact check the government claims. >> i know that you also work ed on the nsa story that you just mentioned. i'm curious. i assume that you and "the washington post" went to the nsa. what did they think when you told them you were breaking the news about the violations? >> well, it's a little bit of a sen sensitive topic, but the general answer i can gi