the senate is expected to pass this week that would add another $80 billion to that. >> pelley: david martin at the pentagon for us tonight. david, thank you. tonight firefighters are reporting some gains against an unusual fall wildfire near big sur, california. flames have burned about 550 acres, but the fire is now about 5% contained. so far, nobody's been injured but as john blackstone reports, several homes have been destroyed. >> reporter: in december, the dramatic coastline and mountains of big sur should be under rain clouds, not thick smoke from a wildfire. but rainfall is 84% below normal. martha karstens is chief of the big sur volunteer fire department. >> i can't remember if we've ever had a fire in december. we had earlier -- in the beginning, like in april or may, but december, no. christmas around the corner? no. >> reporter: karstens' home was one of those lost in the unusually dry forest. the fire spread with such speed, it even surprised the fire chief. >> i have no idea how it was even started. it was just everything is dry, ready to burn. >> reporter: 16-year-old fabian

david martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >>> well, better weather has helped crews make progress fighting big sur wildfire on the coast of california. it's now 20% contained. more than 100 people have been forced out of the area. the fire has destroyed 22 buildings including the home of fire chief martha karstens. >> well, you know, we do our clearing as we're supposed to do. i try to set a good example of that. we had good clearing. it came up so fast, a steep hill, it was a windy night. there was wind from the fire. whether it's me or anyone else, it's just devastating. i've seen people lose their homes on the news and until it happens to you, to stand there and watch your home burn, it's just -- it's not what you want to do. >> the dry conditions are fueling the fire. big sur had gotten only about 16% of its normal rainfall this year. >>> a canadian construction crane operator is recuperating this morning after a dramatic rescue. a massive fire broke out in an apartment building under construction in kingston, ontario, on tuesday. unable to escape, the operator scaled the crane, and th

but geothermal as well but those technologies are just simply not enough david martin chief executive weinberg foundation really appreciate you coming on. stick around you guys i sit down with tyrrell ventura to find out how he views this buzz saw the talk of the world. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention of the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our press we've been hijacked handful of transnational corporations. they will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one so that's my job mark it on this show we were to feel the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate real discussion political issues facing them for bill ready to join the movement and welcome to. the but. over the past few months we've learned that the n.s.a. spies on everyone from brazilian oil company executives to german chancellor angela merkel but now a whole new

already in the possibilities of this potentially revolutionary technology i was joined earlier by david martin chief executive of the weinberg foundation i started by asking him why is a better alternative to uranium and plutonium. for nuclear energy purposes really need to separate between saurian as a shield puts for the element. in field reactors i think that is. you know there's some sometimes some confusion between the two and i both have have advantages and both of. you know technical challenges and also perhaps in pitfalls as well but i think in both cases for both the story and feels and the story is the the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. a story and feel would be one that we would be taught to feel that would go in a traditional conventional reactor so the current generation of reactors. a light water reactor for instance or heavy water reactor the kind of reactors that we've had for about the last fifty years by knowledge around the world. in fuel and those types of reactors would. be has a higher melting point so you have higher safety margins as a whole bunch of physica

but geothermal is well but those technologies are just simply not enough david martin chief executive weinberg foundation really appreciate you coming on. stick around you guys i sit down with tyrrell ventura to find out how he uses buzz saw to talk the world. wealthy british style. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines khans a report on. i think. they would like to know that you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and as press seven we've been hijacked like handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once all just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate real discussion critical issues facing them

but geothermal as well but those technologies are just simply not enough david martin chief executive weinberg foundation really appreciate you coming on. stick around you guys tyrrell ventura to find out how he uses buzz to talk about world. view. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. oh my god by i do no longer access bed clearly holy moley china bandspread coy how will we survive shrake the mainstream media well in fact baidu the e bay of china no longer exists but call it but it was only ever one of bodies many subsidiaries which is the big oil and that was for one samsung product for several weeks and those weeks only one point three seven bit cleaner ever sent to buy do look here this is their wallets. torch is on its epic journey to such a. one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. olympic torch relay. on r t r two dot com. over the past few months we've learned that the n.s.a. spies on everyone from brazilian oil c

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david martin, you were at the first one. [ laughter ] >> easy joke. >> schieffer: margaret brennan covers the state department and congressional correspondent nancy cortiz and major garrett round out our group. let's start right in you pressed the president pretty hard at his news conference friday about this idea of somehow giving amnesty to edward snowden, did you think that the president is actually considering something like that? >> not presently. those around him are, it's a live topic, i think going to become more lively as this year goes on. it's hard to look at the panel's recommendation to the president or justice leon's decision who u.s. district court not look at the disclosures as something that has silt in motion not only a political debate but constitutional debate about the scope of u.s. surveillance, everything that is done in current terrorism in the name of preventing terrorism that has touched upon average american lives in ways that maybe in fact be legitimate from a counter terrorism point of view but not viewed entirely by americans once they were disclosed. that's

resignations and do the acting ceo aged needed to be built and the tenants including a vincent brady and david martin does not fear what a range that are going to be put in place in the intervening period bryson was really on the one active equity market session at the accounts committee on wednesday and the great tt and soft supple pay was to some staff the great dt as the pensioner rate is for some staff including former chief executive called heidi who would be receiving a two hundred presents a pension lump sum. a promenade the crc still hold that at its the pressures had been members of the accounts committee passed the board to resign. jamie to get the type that they would go back to the court in respect of what had happened. he's adorable sydney syndicate to see the depression continued yesterday. yes even the teacher said that reagan was no dent in what should happen next. then a layer of the season is growing pressure for sick children to sing yesterday the chairman of the accounts committee as he did really what's the resignations but after the pub because they had finished its investigatio

david martin from johnson's florist and garden joins with us a look at how to keep things fresh. i think we are on, david. i think we are going to start with the tree. >> okay. >> how do you suggest -- we said there a lot of different ideas about how to keep things fresh and somebody said viagra in the water. aspirin in the water. what do you suggest? >> i don't think anyone wants to spend their viagra prescription on their christmas tree. i like this a lot. it's called prolong. you put it in the water at the base of your tree. do you it about times throughout the season. this will help to keep the tree fresh. it's important that they put a fresh cut before you take it home and put it in water. about an inch and a half or two inches needs to come off. >> you also spray the tree with hair spray to make it stay fresh. >> no because hair spray is flammable. i often wonder why women use it on their heads. this is called wilt proof. this is used on greens and things a lot. this tree here, what we would do is soak it well and spray it. this is an aspect des cant. it helps keep the leave

i'm joined by david martin, the founder and ceo of a company that -- you have been predicting somethingike this since the day i met you. why? >> it's always funny because you will recall after some of our early conversations, a number of people said we grossly misrepresented how much overpaying had happened on the rockstar portfolio, just like we talked about the overpaying that google paid on the motorola portfolio. the reason why there's a dispute between our view and the consensus view is we looked look at the actual patents themselves. the problem rockstar has is that there are some very good patents in the portfolio but of the 4000, close to three quarters of them would have a hard time standing up to a true, unmitigated and unadulterated view of a re-examination process. one of the terrible pieces of news for the rockstar consortium is michele lee -- >> i want to talk to you about the new head of the patent office has a job that wasn't working for apple or microsoft. she worked -- >> for google. that is not good news. >> the funny thing is, a lot of people don't realize there are

but geothermal as well but those technologies is simply not enough david martin chief executive of weinberg foundation really appreciate you coming on. stick around you guys i sit down to find out how he uses buzz to to talk . they all told me my language as well but i will only react to situations as i have read the reports and let you know please you know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say it is mr k.l.a. car is on the docket. they do no more weasel words when you say and a direct question be prepared for a change when you have to punch be ready for a battle for the speech and little down the freedom to cost. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. or a factual standard of living let. live to see a. first rate. and i think the church. and. the the. over the past few months we've learned that the n.s.a. spies on everyone from brazilian oil company executives to german chancellor angela merkel but now a whole new group of people have to worry about being targeted by the spy agency. that's right the new

david martin is at the pentagon with the story of the website. and some of what it turns out just might be the best military satire since joseph heller wrote "catch 22" more than 50 years ago. it's called the duffel blog and it features headlines like disgruntled vet kills 14 beers, shoots tequila. a wickedly clever parody of a sensitive issue, post-traumatic stress. >> i'm thinking i'm going to get a phone call from the pentagon and they're going to say, you're shut down. we're invoking the anti-satire law. >> reporter: this ex-marine started duffel blog two years ago. now he has 50 contributors many still on active duty who air their gripes anonymously. >> we're having fun but at the sim time we're proving some kind of point with every post we have. >> reporter: one of the duffel blog's favorite subjects is now retired general mattis who is also one of its biggest fans. >> they've made a lot of fun of me and i've enjoyed every bit of it. >> reporter: he's now a fellow at the hoover institution, not exactly comedy central. but to readers of the

here is david martin. >> one, two -- at fort braggg home of the 82nd airborne, could end with a nighto justice to the way soldiers eat these days. >> it has changed tremendously. >> sergeant major samuel joined the army when it was a mess hall. now it's a dining facility. today is soul food day. >> they take pride baking the macaroni, you can feel the love when you bite in to the food. >> but a lot of it is fried, the macaroni comes with extra cheese. sergeant major scott duggins shows us how it's color coded. >> easier for soldiers to figure out what are the healthiest choices. >> starts green with corn and collard greens, goes red with fried chicken and ribs. >> people are drawn to these foods here. >> absolutely. >> they taste better. >> they do taste good. which is why we have front loaded the line with the more healthy items, research shows us that whatever i'm offered first i'm going to take the most of. >> most soldiers went to the red. their plates piled high with everything a healthy eater should be avoiding. >> next time they do soul food items. won't be these exact same ite

david martin is at the pentagon this morning. >> this loss of six americans is a grim reminder while the war is winding down, u.s. troops remain in harm's way. the black hawk with seven a board was one of two american helicopters on a daytime mission in afghanistan when it was forced to make a crash landing. what caused it to go down is still unknown. the taliban claim to have shot it down. the second chopper saw no sign of enemy fire. only one a board was still a live. >> it was the worst loss since afghan afghan troops officially look the lead in operations. 125 deaths this year compared to 310 last year and high of 499 in 2010 at the height of the fighting. casualties have are gone down as the number of american troops has gone down from high of 100,000 to current 42700. while the war is winding down the cost is actually going up. this week the senators expected to pass a defense spending bill to include $80 billion for afghanistan in 2014. that's an increase over this year to cover the costs of bringing troops and equipment home. >> all right thank you. though the far from afghan

we're live at lockheed martin, david louie, abc7 news. >> we'll see you at 6:00.hristmas came early for some kids today, 2000 filed into city hall this morning. the toys donated by san francisco firefighters toy program. today's event yuft a warm up. firefighters gave toys to families last year. thanks for joining us for abc7 news at 4:00 the news at 5:00 begins right now. >> hopefully he doesn't have cell phone contact >>> a business partner remains hopeful a man and his family are still alive after the plane goes missing. >> also, get ready it will soon feel like the polar express pull into theed bay area. >> that is right. i'm sandhya patel. where warnings are going up and how much your temperatures will plunge, coming up. >> good evening, i'm dan ashley >> the bay area and whuch of california bracing for cold weather. >> we are. cold weather is a concern for the considerate truss crop. worry majority could be damaged on the vines. >> it's cold with an 18 degree high this, is video courtesy of lake tahoe tv. four inches of snow has fallen. >> here are pictures

david letterman more re-kently martin bashir. i know you accepted his apology. i don't remember you ever saying to target their advertisers, boycott them or even desiring to silence their voices. >> no. i'm a free speech kind of gal. i got e-mails on this one. a friend of mine who happens to be gay said she's outraged for the hypocrisy here, the things they air on their program that she finds offensive. yet a & e doesn't fire a star or somebody involved in their programming based on what they have said but they would when it comes to phil on "duck dynasty." this friend, she said she would boycott a & e and the network. she's not the only one. i have received many e-mails from people saying, you know, why give them our money, our eyes, our ears, our resources. there are other channels out there to be watching. >> this specifically tells me the religious aspect is gq asked him specifically what he thought was a sin. he mentioned a number of things. it wasn't just this this one particular issue. in that sense it was a pretty traditional view of homosexuality. isn't

master novelist whose works inspired many great thinkers, including ma hath ma gandhi and martin luther king. >>> can david cheda has been to tolstoy's estate outside moscow. >> reporter: this is the voice of the 19th centuries russian writer leo tolstoy, widely considered one of the world's greatest novellives, such as war and peace and anna karenena. this remarkable footage shows him in his final years at his country estate. we caught up with his great great granddaughter at his house in moscow. now the tolstoy museum. she was in the middle of a photo shoot for a magazine. she has been behind the push to put a new generation literally in touch with his heritage online. >> translator: i wanted people to return to reading tolstoy with all the ways that modern technology now offers. this is part of our heritage. not all of it has been on the internet yet but it should be available to everyone. only 2,000 copies of his complete werks were ever published, bshes works were ever published, impossible to buy. >> it is this russian company charged with getting tolstoy's works online. not only his writings but dia

martin luther king jr.. >> thank you very much. >>> actor david hai harewood portrayed nelson mandela. i spoke about how he played such an iconic role and how he prepared for it. >> initially e excited and then deep roll and and then you hit this fear. how do you play a myth. how do you play someone who has been so extraordinary in his life the only way you can approach it is to read as much as you can and watch as much as you can. day after day he revealed himself as the ultimate human being. the ultimate warrior and ultimate soldier. and the more i read the more i got to know him. and he became less of a myth and more of a man. more of a human being. that is his testment. that is his legacy. i was surprised at how much i didn't know the more i started to uncover the struggles of the anc and the struggles of him personally with winnie and that was interesting. because i played him in the movie which was essentially about winnie mandela and i had no idea and i don't think anyone had any idea of all of these smiling shots of him coming out of prison he was going through a terrible time

it was as if malcolm or martin were still alive and the nets had won the world series, all in new york, all in one day. former new york mayor davidn america. >> in my mind, mandela was ten feet tall. what nelson mandela was able to achieve demonstrated what in fact can occur. >> reporter: one american who like mandela knows the high price of equality, congressman john lewis. >> if nelson mandela can do it we can do it. >> reporter: tonight the movie about mandela's life "long walk to freedom" premiered in london. those who attended didn't know mandela had died until after. >> extremely sad and tragic news. >> reporter: the anti-apartheid protests of the '80s captivated a new generation on college campuses and communities. ♪ >> reporter: amidst the demonstrations demanding divestment in south africa here, the ongoing violence there in townships like soweta, it took the story of one man who help america better understand the struggle of one nation. mandela reminded the world reconciliation was more powerful than revenge. forgiveness is a gift to be given. >> i said didn't you hate the people when they let you go? he said, briefly i

martin luther king, jr. now leo tolstoy's entire body of work is being digitized for entire world to see. davidorter: this is the voice of the 19th century russian writer leo tolstoy. widely considered one of the world's greatest novelist with works such as war and peace and annika karenina. he's reading one of hair fairytales about a world and a child and this remarkable footage shows him in his final years at his country estate. we caught up with his great, great granddaughter at his house in moscow now the tolstoy museum. she was in the middle i've photo shoot for a magazine. she has been the driving force behind the project to disties de the edge tire works of tolstoy to put a new generation literal police in touch with his heritage online. >> i wanted people to return to reading tolstoy with all of the way that his modern technology now offers. this is part of our heritage. not all of it has been on the internet yet, but it should be available to everyone. only 2,000 copies of his complete works were ever published, impossible to buy. >> reporter: it's this russian company that was charged

mansions followed by bill o'reilly and martin daugaard's take on the murder of jesus of nazareth and killing jesus. and let's explore diabetes and a collection of essays by david taveras. >> linda robinson is next. she talks about the role of u.s. special operations forces in the world today and argues that they will be this countries primarily sole military force. this is about one hour. .. who

what's going on guys i'm happy martin and this is breaking the set so here's some interesting news coming out of ten downing street the british prime minister david cameron has taken heavy criticism of the purging of a decade's worth of speeches and videos from the conservative party's websites that's right i think there's a wave of historical revisionism sweeping cameron's government after all it's hard to prove that you haven't lived up to any of your initial promises if they're completely expunged from the public record now of course party members are defending the move saying that purging the content is a campaign strategy aimed at replacing old messages with new ones but cameron's former speechwriter in burrell disagrees that this is just a campaign strategy that quote the use of sophisticated software to ensure search engines do not stumble upon these archives slightly just slightly undermines this claim is as it turns out the party went as far as instructing websites such as an internet archive and google to fully remove deleted pages from their databases pages that these websites often keep for posterity usually went away until cultures a

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martin luther king jr. now leo tolstoy's works are being digitised for the world to see. david chater has more on that. >> this is the voice of the 19th century russian writer leo tolstoy, widely considered one of the greatest novels for works like "war and peace" and "anna karenina". he's reading a fairytale about a wolf and a child, and this shows him in his final years at his country estate. we caught up with his great-great-granddaughter at his house in moscow, now the leo tolstoy museum. fyokla has been the driving force to put a new generation in touch with his works, online. >> translation: i wanted people to return to read leo tolstoy with all the ways that modern technology offers. this is part of our heritage. not all of it is on the internet. it should be available to everyone. 2,000 copies of his works were ever published. impossible to buy. >> it's this russian company that was charged with the task of getting leo tolstoy's works online. not just the 90 volume standard collection, but diries, letters and less well-known works. the cost of such a vast amount of mate

what's going on guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so here's some interesting news coming out of ten downing street the british prime minister david cameron is taking heavy criticism of the purging of a decade's worth of speeches and videos from the conservative party's websites that's right i think there's a wave of historical revisionism sweeping cameron's government after all it's hard to prove that you haven't lived up to any of your initial promises if they're completely expunged from the public record now of course party members are defending the move saying that purging the content is a campaign strategy aimed at replacing old messages with new ones but cameron's former speechwriter in burrell disagrees that this is just a campaign strategy and that quote the use of safin.

because at five pm breaking the set host abby martin will be moderating a special debate on guns that's right here on r t america and that does it for now i'm mira david. they look like. can enjoy the song and the ocean. people are suffering the consequences. how much more poison. behind there is what we call the bank on which there is a deposit of plutonium. clyde's despite previous efforts. a little less than two kilos of plutonium stuck in the rock the coral reef about ten metres down. a never ending legacy. ok i marinate this is boom bust and here are some of the stories we're tracking for you today first up j.p. morgan is cutting yet another check to the justice department this time for the troubles of bernie made off we'll tell you all about it coming up and you also when you arrive print money it's called counterfeiting on my porch direct from jim versus new film money for nothing the director joins us today from our l.a. studios hopefully to discuss is the best place later on in the show and finally it would be nice to real life shopping it was just like online shopping what if they were the same thing one startup is trying to make out a reali

martin apologizing after embarrassing tweets. >> taking a look outside, you can see the sun game, maybe. everybody >>> a judge ruled to overturn a measure to call for tough pension reforms david louie joins us to explain the decision. david? >> ever >> there is no question this is going to have strong implications. you might say santa claus gave a nice christmas present but ended up leaving a lump of coal for the mayor and members of the city council. two sides have been embroiled in a lawsuit after voter as proved pension reform by a 70% vote that had police officers forecasts and other city employees a judge agreed with the city on some points but with employees on others and the labor groups see it as a victory. that the city was taking steps to ease a short fall in pension funding. key points is that city can raise pension contributions talked to both sides. >> we've been saying reform measure, measure b was illegal. and this judge gutted, gutted measure b. >> this isn't the end of measure b. i'm confident that both sides will appeal the judge's decision that didn't go in their favor and we'll work through the courts and to the supreme court >> but police union indicated

lock head martin challenge them to a down to earth project building a car in one day start to finish. business technology reporter david the story. >> lifting off a tarp not as dramatic as spacecraft lift off routine part of the work because these injuries couldn't be happier about how this day long project ended. >> i'm amanda and i'm a rocket design manager here at lockheed martin. >>reporter: what do you know about building a car. >> sear oyshtion that's how the 200 engineers started out their day. the goal to build a car ready to go 100 miles per gallon. team building exercise to aspire the jersey to rev up the creative joo just and be better problem solvers. >> it men fail irs not an option. they have to very quickly pick up the task. find their way through it. make sure they are doing it correctly the first time because there's really no time to cycle back through it. even in the normal product we build take much longer that still truism that they have to live with. >>reporter: this wasn't designed to be a simple assembly process. curves thrown in to create challenges. >> we have about 4 instances of error in the

martin. >>> we now know the name of the man shot to death early this morning in san francisco. police say 36-year-old david gilford the ii of modesto was standing outside when somebody opened fire. it happened about 1:45 a.m. he was taken to san francisco general hospital where he later died. so far, police have not released a possible motive. no arrests have been made. >>> new developments tonight about a serial bank robber who galvanized forces across the nation after killing a police officer. police have identified the suspect as 40-year-old mario edward garnett. the secret service says garnett was convicted of threatening president obama in 2010. he was sentenced to eight months in federal prison and ordered to get mental health care upon his release. phoenix police shot and killed garnett yesterday when he tried to rob a bank there. melissa has details of the crimes and the manhunt. >> reporter: a six-day nationwide manhunt is over. the search for the accused bank robber and cop killer came to an end in phoenix saturday, following another bank heist. >> i heard one boom boom boom. >> reporter: phoenix

david webb. this intro is messed up. he started tea party 365. then bernard whitman, co-host of -- i don't know. it's messed up, bernard. and jedediah beelah. martin gone. this was after a long time. not like he made the vile comments which everybody agrees were beyond the pale vile. finally today he resigned. is that enough? >> they couldn't have him be representative of the network. they saw a lot of coverage other networks were doing. i did several segments where i didn't understand how they could get rid of alec baldwin and not martin bashir. this was their effort to stay they were being consistent. >> were they? >> to an extent. if theyed hadn't it wouldn't have gone away for them. this is the way to get out of the news on the issue. >> it's starting to quiet down. >> i'm no fan of sarah palin and disagree with with about everything that comes out of her mouth. but what he said was shameful and disgusting. he had to go. msnbc took too long but at the end of the day he lost his show, his job. that's a clear signal that the network doesn't abide by those types of outbursts nor the outburst alec baldwin has. >> without getting into specifics the

martin luther king, junior. among others on the list, presidents theodore roosevelt and ronald reagan, winston churchill and margaret thatcher, pope john paul ii and israel's first prime minister davidhitler and mao. "time" went on to name the last century's three greatest people. >> the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. >> osgood: runner up for franklin d. roosevelt and muhammad gandhi who led india's campaign against british colonialism. >> it is complete independence that we want. >> ghandi inspired among many others, nelson mandela who praised him in an essay for "time." growth ghandi and i suffered colonial oppression, and both of us mobilized our respected peoples against government, is that violated our freedoms. when it came to choosing the greatest figure of the 20th century, "time" looked beyond politics to choose albert einstein, the scientist who derived the equation e equals mc squared. a choice defended by walter isaacson. >> he said politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity. >> osgood: today nelson mandela finds himself of the greats of the last century. the honor roll for this century is still quite open. >> osgood: up next -- ♪ if you could re

martin scotland. >> welcome to winter, ice storms, flash floods and rain are scheduled for the united states. >> welcome to al jazeera america, i'm davidster, live in new york. >> president obama is now officially on vacation and home for the holidays. he and the first family touched down in hawaii. they are slated to stay there until the first week of january. the president is optimistic about the prospects of 2014. before taking off for his availabling ace he gave a final news conference addressing the roll out of the health care exchange program and admitted that his team screwed it up and spoke about the controversial government surveillance program, iran, immigration reform and the economy. patty culhane has more from washington. >> the president is leaving town after a tough week when it comes to the n.s.a. spying program, a federal judge ruling that the mass collection is unconstitutional. his review panel came out contradicting what the president said. the president said it stopped 50 terrorist plots and the panel said it hasn't stopped anything. the president was asked about the contradiction and he didn't give an answer. when