donny is being kind. if your party would find its way to the -- not middle but to a position talk about how you can grow -- >> you can serve the government -- >> make government work. >> scott walker a year ago was being lacerated. he finds himself in a different position. our friend, a great, great friend of this show and your dear friend, mike barnicle one morning, saying scott walker would be judged a year from when he started this effort to rein in what he believed was abuse of powers by union, i don't necessarily agree with that, but abuse of powers by union if scott walker grew the job base. he finds himself in a different position according to what john and politico is saying. it is interesting if these governors emerge as a model for the party. >> what i've been saying for five years now, nonstop, y, you talk about reagan, want to be like reagan, be like reagan, be conservative ideological, be pragmatic and moderate temperamentally. rick perry is a great example this morning of how not to be moder

i want to go donnie to you first on the this scotus ruling today. this ruling on voting rights that we have been talk about for the whole show really, what it means to democratic campaigns in these districts? >> for campaigns this makes the fight that they have already been fighting a little bit more difficult. we all know republicans and conservatives are making it harder for americans to vote. long lines at the polls. not enough voting machines. unnecessary voter id requirements. all of this litany of things. in nine states plus parts of other states these kind of changes to the election process had to be approved before they took effect. now they don't need approval at all. they can just happen. it is going to make the job for republican conservatives easier when they want to make it harder for american's to vote. >> michael: your state of south carolina already the attorney general is saying we want to get rid of the entire voting right's act a to z. >> because we liked the it was 50 years ago when only white people could vote. >> michael: yeah.

and also, someone told me that donnie's here? >> he is. >> which -- what?ually, he's in here, you know, fixing his clothes? >> no, no. ♪ >> whoa, let's see the suit. let's see the jacket. >> yeah, i really don't -- >> he's a good dresser. >> okay. so, i brought in someone to shadow me at work. i'd like you to stay 20 yards away from her. thank you, donnie. brian. >> thank you, mika. we'll see you in a few minutes. when we get back, we'll huddle around the water cooler. john oliver's debut as host of "the daily show" and even stephen colbert jumping into the fray. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ bonjour ♪ je t'adore ♪ c'est aujourd'hui ♪ ♪ et toujours ♪ me amour ♪ how about me? [ male announcer ] here's to a life less routine. ♪ and it's un, deux, trois, quatre ♪ ♪ give me some more of that [ male announcer ] the more connected, athletic, seductive lexus rx. ♪ je t'adore, je t'adore, je t'adore ♪ ♪ ♪ s'il vous plait [ male announcer ] this is the pursuit of perfection. ♪ s'il vous plait they're coming. yeah. british. later. sorry. ok...four words... scarecrow in th

donny deutsch.hen i think of the stories we're covering today i'm not sure. >> worried. >> in washington pulitzer prize editorial writer for the "washington post," jonathan cape hart. >> the former governor of vermont, former chairman of the dnc howard dean with us. very good. good group. want to go around the table. we're going to get to, obviously, the latest on the fbi and the nsa, but one of the big headlines this morning is, a major reversal by the department of the -- department of justi justice's position over the so-called morning after pill. you guys know what that is, right? the government now plans to drop its appeal of an april ruling that will allow girls access to emergency contraception without a prescription or any age restriction? am i like already dating myself and looking like a moral -- i don't know. katie you have daughters. >> i would daughters, i have a 17-year-old and a 7-year-old. i have to say if the skypes cie true what the morning after pill does this is conception for 72

donnie yarberry has been in and out of prison much of his adult life.and then got arrested a few months later. >> you currently married? >> i'm divorced. >> a waste of time, a waste of freedom, so many better things to be doing in life, going fishing, going to a movie, walking hand in hand with your girlfriend. >> release photographs are taken of every inmate processing out. for donnie yarberry who has a history of substance abuse, parole includes a halfway house dedicated to helping recovery addicts get on their feet. >> i heard they had a six-month aftercare so i volunteered for the program so i wouldn't have to parole to the streets and have nothing. i go to a residential program 60 days and have sober living four more months where i don't have to pay more rent. >> inmates released from corcoran are given $200 and a clean set of clothes to start their new lives. >> paroling to the street with gateway is not enough to survive. it doesn't last two days. i had opportunities to recover before and was never adamant in my heart i was never going to use aga

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the next republican convention for 2014, this will be a donnie brooke. we have seen societal attitudes. like the gentleman from pennsylvania silencing our next guest. what do you think america needs to know? >> well, ed, first of all, thank you for having me on. i think this is an important issue that america needs to know about tp right now, as you just suggested, there are legislators across the country gearing up to do battle with lbgts, civil rights. i think when they are losing an let's be clear, they are most definitely losing. by every metric we can measures, they are advancing in the united states and will continue to advance. so what is happening is we are seeing these opponents lash out and sometimes it is embarrassing. sometimes just holy wrong. what we saw on the floor is a little of both. >> yeah. mike, i want to ask you this about the laws of nature. this is what louie ghomert mentioned on the house floor. then he also made the comment of children being affected. your thoughts on all of that? what do you think that it is hurting the childre

. >> donny eugene. donny eugene. >> are you saying that -- >> i have no objection. this thing keeps flashing right here on the computer, i wonder if we could do something -- >> can you take the flashing -- [ inaudible ] >> that's your name that you signed at the bottom? >> yes. >> but it's not actually your name. >> no. >> that's a name that you made up. >> that's my nickname. >> but your last name isn't eugene. >> that's my mother last name. >> you signed it diamond eugene so as not to use your real name. >> yes. >> i'll read the letter then. can you not read this here? >> yes. >> what does this say? >> march 19th, 2012. >> can you read this at the bottom? >> thank you. >> and then you signed your name? >> yes. >> and you can't read any of the words here? >> not at all of them. >> but you can read type written words, just not cursive? >> yeah. >> subject to correction by the state, the letter reads as follows -- i was on the phone when trayvon decided to go to the corner store. it started to rain. so he decided to walk through another complex because it was raining

. >> jimmy: nancy -- she put you in "donnie darko." >> it's true.t role ever. >> in 2001. oy vey. look at that. [ cheers and applause ] i look kind of similar. >> jimmy: yeah, you look pretty similar. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> kinda what it is. >> jimmy: yeah, you're a baby there. do you remember -- did you have any lines? >> it was -- that was the first movie i ever did, and one of my main lines in the movie is "i like your boobs." that's what i say to a young girl in the movie. >> jimmy: you were what? you were what? how old? >> i was, like, 18, i think, at the time. i actually went to a party -- your wife had a party for the movie, actually, like, while we were filming. and i got trashed at her house. and i was underage. >> jimmy: yeah. >> so, you shouldn't do that, yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: shouldn't have parties like that. >> no, she shouldn't. like, it was crazy. i got annihilated. yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's insane. i've got to -- yeah, i got to tell her to stop doing that. >> you should talk to her about that, yeah. >> jimmy: yeah, we

. >> everywhere donnie would go, he had to be friends with everybody. >> all four of white's sons are construction workers, as well. they say if it was a freak accident, they will accept that. but what they want is to know for sure. >>> a twist in that fremont kidnapping case. the suspect says it was all a misunderstanding. he got into the wrong car. but the police aren't buying his story. 23-year-old aaron roy made his first court appearance today charged with kidnapping and intent to commit rape. police say roy hid in the back seat of a 16-year-old girl's car when she was in the grocery store. he then made her drive to a remote location and ordered her to take off her clothes. the girl managed to escape. documents reveal investigators found rape porn videos on his phone. >>> putting the brakes on red light cameras. a number of cities are dumping cameras, saying they're not cutting it and way too many drivers are miffed about those $500 tickets they've been getting in the mail. that's the late nest a growing list of cities that wants to get rid of the cameras. >> reporter: jessica, t

gets tossed into the stands and it becomes a battle, a donny brook, a mele between a group of young kidsshe's excited. it's not a mele. she knocked him out. she just boxed him out. it's her ball. that's fine. all right. well, somebody ends up crying, but they always do. she shouldn't gloat so much. there you go. don't give up so easy. all right. finally chad johnson has been released from prison a little bit early after apologizing to the judge who gave him a 30 day jail sentence for a pat on the behind of his lawyer. appearing in court yesterday in a tan prison suit and handcuffs, sobered up by the experience, he was sorry for disrespecting the courtroom and judge kathleen mchue accepted that apology and extended his probation an extra three months. >>> get a check on weather with mr. bill karins. you know, at first i was a little -- that's a beautiful shot there. i don't know where -- >> that is nice. look at that. >> i thought the judge overreacted. you know what, court of law, probably shouldn't do that. >> yeah, she got his attention. we don't want to pay for him in jail for a month

. >> everywhere donny would go, he would meet somebody, had to be friends with everybody, had a lot of friends. >> reporter: he lived in sacramento with his wife wendy. when the stadium job came up he jumped in the chance to be back in the bay area near the peninsula where he grew up. his sons grateful to have dad closer, if just for a few months. >> it's my dad, my old man. he loved all of us and just wanted to be near us and hang out with us and spend time with us. >> all four of don white's boys followed in his footsteps so they are familiar with the dangers of work sites like the one where their dad died yesterday when he was struck by an elevator counterweight. they said if it was a freak accident, they can accept that. they want to know for sure. >> he put his boots on and went to work and something happened. >> all accidents are caused by something. just trying to figure out how he is in position to be hit -- struck by the counterweight. >> obviously there was -- something happened and we still don't know. >> while they wait for answers, his family and friends are trying to do w

donny, the trainer, just gave him a towel. >> mike: icing is called. six minutes into the first period. only four shots in double digits in hits right now. the shots are 3-1, boston. he is 41. he was a teenager when he first played for the stanley cup and won it twice in pittsburgh. krejci on this draw. chara lobbed it ahead. lucic took it there. tried to hurry it on and could not do it there. back off chara who stepped into his man. back in it come from looseeck and another shift change. for the bruins. keith. he has to try again. shaw could not handle. angles out to sernd. back by saad and retrieved by johnny boychuk. ference tried to play the further and nudged it ahead. paille swung it across. rushing after it. arrived there. paille threw it on back! corralled there by boychuk. to the net. bad angle. off crawford from kelly as waiting was seguin to paille. this is the line that did very well in the first game that was played in chicago where they were matched up together during the game. boychuk, the shot. deflected up high. he had reached for it.

Ñáçwçñ >> officer donny meece: the street that i grew up on, on the west side of cincinnati was rightt from cincinnati district 3. and i remember as a kid, playing out with my friends, and those police cars would come wailing down the streets, lights and sirens, and, uh, we would run as fast as we could to get to that intersection just so we could watch them police cars drive by. and... we just passed a car leaving a high drug area here with its lights off. we're gonna flip on it here, see if we can't catch up, see what they're up to. he just turned the corner here. there they go. ( radio blips) 43-21, i'm in foot pursuit of a male black... red shirt. blue jean shorts. get on the ground! get on the ground or i'm gonna tase ya! get on the ground or i'm gonna tase ya! ( taser clicking) get on the ground! get on the ground, put your hands behind your back! don't move. what's your name, man? what are you running for? >> because. >> meece: because why? >> ( garbled spee)h >> meece: huh? >> he was like, "the car's stolen." i can't... my keys right here. that's what i drive... >> meece: 21.

donny baseball making his return to the bronx.t's the first time these two teams have faced off since the 1981 world series. bottom six, ichiro with a three-run shot to left field. and i just dropped him from my fantasy team, thank you very much. vernon wells hits a pop-up in front of the pitcher's mound. oops. delsario boots it. the yankees win. to the night cap, dodgers rookie sensation, yacil, and this guy is unbelievable. deep in top of the seventh. he could be legendary if he stays healthy. l.a. gets some redemption blanking the yanks, 6-0. >>> nationals/phillies going extra innings. ian desmond. that one is out of the park. the go-ahead grand slam. they end up winning, 6-2. >>> this is a fascinating story. for one family, the daughter of former yankee manager joe torre was at the right place at the right time. big time. torre was walking down a street when she saw a 1-year-old boy hanging from the awning of a storefront in brooklyn. when the child fell, christina torre was there to make the perfect catch. >> the baby was str

>> getting to that controversy with starr and donny a little ahead.by this morning, it had destroyed at least six homes. meantime, here in the northeast, thunderstorms last night toppled trees and left 30,000 people without power. this as the people of oklahoma are recovering from storms that claimed 13 lives on friday. >>> new decisions this morning coming down from the supreme court. nbc justice correspondent pete wallace. >> reporter: the supreme court has ruled the police can take dna samples from someone who's arrested for a serious crime. all 50 states take dna from people who are convicted of crimes. they take that dna and they run against a database of unsolved or cold cases to see if they can solve that from the person they've just convicted. the case before the supreme court asked the question of whether you can do that from someone who has been arrested and not convicted. today by a 5-4 ruling the supreme court said the answer is yes. defense lawyers said there was no probable cause to think that somebody arrested for one crime had committe

. >> donny was down there too. >> like a party. lewis was there. >> steve ratner was there. >> he was not. >> you would have thought he was at the acrop police. >> don't put ratner in the subway. you guys should have built a special subway for him. nop. >> so you have been here a long time. you don't do subways? >> i'm a a -- as you know, i was born and raised in los angeles, california, we do not go into underground conveyance. >> mike, you do subways, right? >> all the time. >> we're not going to say where you live because it's where i live but we got a subway across the street and just -- you zip. >> only way to get around new york. >> it is. >> and in washington -- >> you do subways? >> cross town so i walk. but i was not invited to this subway affair. >> oh, don't -- don't -- consider yourself lucky. >> thank you for sending a car for me and not making me take the subway. >> it was 137 degrees down there. >> okay. >> too much -- >> mike was break dancing. >> i know. we're going to have thomas. >> senior political editor and wh

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and coming up tomorrow, we go in fashion with donny subtle.r on-line shop is helping girls express their individually, and helping a good cause, thank you for joining us, dvr the show. have a great night. lou: gooo evening thank you for being with us, breaking news, the white house now claims that bashar assad's forces have sed chemical weapons on syrian rebels, they used serine to kill 100 to 150 rebels over the last 12 months could obama administration asked for a united nations investigation almost 3 months ago, but it has reached a conclusion that assad@ is responsible for use of chemical ep one weapons throughn efforts and determination, the times is curious, less than 24 hours after former president bi

chris, this is a nightmare, and it has to change, and i predict we're going to have a real donny brook on the senate floor. because we're not going to let this go by easily, gently into the night. >> what do you mean by that? >> we're going to offer the gillibrand/boxer/collins language again and we're going to fight to get it done, and we are going to get our day on the full senate floor. it was interesting, we did get republicans and democrats for our proposal. but just not enough. but i believe the time has come for change. i am extremely disappointed in what happened. i have to say i'm not shocked. because change is hard. we know it is difficult. we saw how gays were treated in the military for decades and decades. we saw how women had been treated in terms of their equality. we saw how there was no integration in the military until finally president truman made it happen. so all these are civil rights battles. these are human rights and civil rights, and, you know, people forget that half of the victims are men. it's not a women's issue. it is a violence issue. >> senator, could i

donny ferguson, he took the s.n.a.p. challenge in response to 26 democrats living on the s.n.a.p.erguson spent less than the allotted money and claimed he even gained weight from the food. well, guess what, we have exactly here on the ed set what this guy bought. oh, it's just great food, sfwht it? this is how you live on food stamps. he got cookies, sugary cereal, no value whatsoever when it comes to nutrition. you have rice and beans, peanut butter and jelly. sounds good, but, almost double the daily calorie intake for an adult more than double the amount of sodium intake. may i point out on this desk, no fresh vegetables, no chicken, no meat, very little protein, fatty foods, processed foods, subsidized foods, preservatives, corn syrup and everything that ma makes america fat. here's your farm bill, folks. right here. here's the food stamp program. now, some of the congressional members are complaining that there might be some king crab legs that might make it through the checkers aisle at the grocery store. i wish that was the case. what we need to do is increase the food stam

and if you look at stockman, and donny ferguson, the agreements he bought on his food stamp challenge no high quality feeds, a recipe for obesity. and that is exactly what people with low incomes are faced with. they have their two dollars to buy things that are cheap, things that are very affordable. we subsidize corn, wheat, sauce, all the commodity crops that go into making the highly processed, highly sugared foods. >> tom, you mentioned subsidies, that was a huge part of this farm bill, do you think we'll see a farm bill that doesn't have the subsidies, given the fact that there is bipartisan support for the subsidies? >> you know, i'm hopes that a new farm bill comes together and we can pass something that actually makes sense. and i really believe, if you look at lewis gomer, and stockman and conaway, all from texas, there are four million people who receive snap benefits in texas. and i hope that those four million realize that they're getting shafted by their relationships. and when it is time to vote them out of office. speak up. >> speak up, tom colicchio, you get tonight's

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same with "donnie brasco." very well done.sopranos" was concerned, it was entertaining, the characters were good, but let me tell you this, if a mob boss was ever visiting a psychiatrist, he'd be in the trunk of the car by the end of the week along with the psychiatrist. so that's about how real that was as far as the story was concerned. but the intriguing part was really the relationship that tony soprano had with his family. that's what was interesting to me. and i think that's what interested most people. >> michael franzese, good stuff. got to come back. thank you, sir. >> will do. okay. >> i'm don lemon in new york. thank you so much for watching us. "nancy grace: behind bars" next. s story. working for a company where over seventy-five percent of store management started as hourly associates. there's opportunity here. i can use walmart's education benefits to get a degree, maybe work in it, or be an engineer, helping walmart conserve energy. even today, when our store does well, i earn quarterly bonuses. when people loo

. >> everywhere donny would go, he'd have to meet somebody. he had to be friends with everybody. he has a lot of friends. >> reporter: several different agencies are investigating exactly what went wrong here. cal osha has six months to complete its direction, a project co-directors just reviewed their safety procedures as a matter of routine and will do that again today as work gets started. reporting live in santa clara, christie smith, "today in the bay." >>> it is 5:37. this morning top law enforcement officials from here in the bay area and new york are teaming up with the country's largest smart phone makers to help fight the rise in cell phone thefts. san francisco d.a. george gascon and new york attorney generic snyderman are meeting with representatives from apple, google, samsung and microsoft in new york city for the smart phone summit. they'll also announce the formation of a nationwide initiative to stop the surge in smart phone thefts. apple certainly jumping ahead of the game. just three days ago the tech giant announced a kill switch technology called activation l

donny ferguson, communications director for texas tea party congressman steve stockman lived on food stamps for a week which amounts to $31.50 for seven days and said it was easy. quote, i wanted to personally experience the effects of the proposed cuts to food stamps. i put my money with my mouth is. and the proposed food stamp cuts are still quite filling. not only did i buy a week's worth of food on what democrats complain is too little, i had left over. we have room to cut about 12% more. joining me to do, andrew ross sorkin, co-host of "squawk box," "new york times" columnist and author of "too big to fail." columnist joe klein, managing editor of grio.com and someone filling in for me so graciously, joy reid, and editorial director at the "huffington post" media group and msnbc political analyst, howard fineman. i believe joining us from washington, d.c. is "the washington post's" ezra klein. always great to see you. i would like to go to you first on the food stamp farm bill back and forth. you had a really interesting piece today, and you made the point that this is really a

donny henshaw was the one being tased.t police say is henshaw drove away from an accident scene, evaded the cops and then refused to pull over. henshaw denies that saying he will fight the charges. the police have received no complaints from other people besides henshaw about the incident. coming up, big news in the market. what is happening out there, just a huge, huge sell-off in asia, we're talking epic 6%. the question is how will that affect u.s. markets when they open in a few hours? the great outdoors... ...and a great deal. thanks to dad. (gasp) nope. aw! guys! grrrr let's leave the deals to hotels.com. (nice bear!) ooo! that one! nice! got it! oh my gosh this is so cool! awesome! perfect! yep, and no angry bears. the perfect place is on sale now. up to 30% off. only at hotels.com the act of soaring across an ocean in a three-hundred-ton rocket doesn't raise as much as an eyebrow for these veterans of the sky. however, seeing this little beauty over international waters is enough to bring a traveler to tears. we're

>> star, donny, dr. of the smash hit "the devil wears prada" but first this is "today" on nbc. ♪ >>> this morning on "today's sizzling summer reads" the highly anticipated sequel to best-selling novel "the devil wears prada." it has been ten years since the boss from hell took the publishing world by storm and later became a hit movie starring anne hathaway and meryl streep. now the boss and assistant are back together for better or worse. >> hello, mrs. priestley's office. that's what i meant, miranda priestley's office. >> when we first met andy sachs, ten years ago, she was naive new hire, working as an assistant to the powerful and ruthless editor-in-chief miranda priestley. >> i need 10 or 15 skirts from calvin klein. >> okay, what kind of skirts do you -- >> please bore someone else with your questions. >> she struggled to hold on to her job and sanity as she catered to miranda's every demand. >> so the book better be here no later than 3:00. >> of course. >> all the while sacrificing her personal

i think donny depp might take a bit of umbrage with that. this is a movie he pushed for.he opportunity to play tonto. he wantsed to make sure this film treated native americans with respect and dignity and that focus was one of the things they talked about from the very beginning of the film process. in that vane, when they decided this, the filmmakers reached out to the navajo indians to get permission to film on their territory. they worked closely enough with the comanche tribe that depp was actually adopted into a comanche family. he has said his great grandmother was a native american. he wasn't clear if she was of cherokee descent. he directed and starred in a movie called "the brave" back in 1997 the. he said in that film, what he was trying to do was make a point about how most of society viewed americans as disposable. he's been outspoken about he sees the lone ranger as a chance to change that view. he said he used to watch "lone ranger" as a kid and got mad because tonto was always being told what to do. this film will tell the story from tonto's point of view.

just yesterday when she was told she would have to return by donny donwest. she did seem like a bit annoyed. don west said it could take a couple more hours for this testimony to continue. >> george howell, thanks so much. as you can see, as george said, the trial is now under way. rachel jeantel now sitting on the stand and george zimmerman is sitting. they're waiting for the jury to enter the courtroom. once the jury is seated, the proceedings will begin. we'll wait for the jury to come into the courtroom. we'll look at what rachel jeantel's testimony means for this. sunny hostin in atlanta and with me here is page pate. good morning. >> good morning. >> sunny, if the twitterverse is any indication, two tweets point othat. one says breaking rachel jeantel guilty of murdering the leengli language. what is your take on her testimony, sunny? >> you know, i think that's an unfair characterization of what's happening in the courtroom. yes, perhaps she is the most elegant witness that we've seen. but i think you understand that she is not a professional witness a

thank you very much:we're joined by msnbc's tour and donnie deutsche and star jones.tion and admission. the supreme court ruling on the voting rights act. the trayvon martin situation, the case that's unfolding in florida with george zimmerman on trial for murder, and paula deen sitting here yesterday. try to connect it for me. give me a common narrative. >> i think we see the importance of race still in america. the affirmative action ruling didn't knock down affirmative action, but it raised the bar on it. but the voting rights act is the thing that really hurt my heart. now it's going to be much harder for black and brown people to vote, especially in the south. when you see people being taken for granted in the trayvon martin situation and the mindset that still exists when we talk about paula deen and not just using the "n" word in 1986 or whatever, but in 2007, wanting to plan the southern wedding, dreaming of that. that is the thing that says this discrimination still exists, and the voting rights act allows it to continue. >> his headline is how far we have no

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. >> the return, mika, one more thing, donny baseball to the bronx. >> yeah. chuck todd, can we talk about president obama's meeting with vladimir putin on the issue of syria? >> he's got a lot of opinions. >> yeah. >> how was putin? did he -- we love the body language. he sits in the chair. >> they don't seem to like each other. >> he's just like -- how is that body language? did he give him a full putin yesterday? steal his wedding ring. slouch, act disinterested. >> look at them. >> i think he flexed. he did flex at one point. putin is always flexing. it's what you have to remember. sits there always showing the upper body strength. >> look at that guy. >> this is the fourth time that the president and putt vn met one-on-one, and the first time was in moscow. that meeting didn't go so well. it was a little bit better at camp david. not so great in mexico. by putin/obama standards yesterday was actually went off quite swimmingly. they actually smiled when the cameras were on. putin didn't talk about cannibalism, so that's sort of a way of lowering the bar bu

here to tackle the stories that have you talking, star jones, donny and nancy snyderman. >> most peopleis edward snowden a traitor who deserves to be published to the full extent of the law or is he a whistle blower who deserves the protection of the law. why don't i start with you the lawyer. >> he is a criminal. there's no question what so ever. when you sign on to this sort of job, you sign on knowing that you may not release classified information, period. you are a criminal. and whether or not you are a traitor or a whistle blower, is that to be determined by a courtroom. >> he says he thinks it's important for people to know the program is in assistance and allow public debate on the program. >> it's important for ice to be in ice water but that's not the point. he is a criminal. >> he is a traitor with a capital t. they're not spying on 35 million americans or looking that i called you last night and said how was dinner. this is only if there's 70 calls to yemen. this protects us and the american public is not entitled to know everything the government is doing to protect us. thi