we call it the fisk. they ask for and receive permission from the fisk under this to get records that are relevant to a national security investigation. and they must demonstrate to the fisk that it will be operated under the guidelines that are set forth by the attorney general under executive order 12333. this is what covers intelligence gathering in the federal government. it is limited to tangible objects. now, what does that mean? these are like records like the metadata, the phone records i've been with describing. but it is quite explicitly limited to things that you could get with a grand jury subpoena. those kinds of records. now, it's important to know prosecutors issue grand jury subpoenas all the time and do not need any involvement of a court or anybody else really to do so. under this program we need to get permission from the court to issue this ahead of time, so there is court involvement with the issuance of these orders which is different from a grand jury subpoena. but the type of recor

we also provide a semi-annual report to fisk and congress concerning the implementation of the programwhat we have done and what we have found. we also provide to congress documents that contain again how we are dealing with the minimization procedures, any significant legalization procedures that fisk makes, concerning applications that relate to that. on top of all of this, annually, the inspector general for nsa does an assessment which he provides to congress that reports on compliance, the number of disseminations under this program that relate to u.s. persons. the number of targets reasonably -- >> we are told general alexander will reveal terror plot stopped by surveillance. these are the questions that are going to be asked by members of the house intelligence committee. let me bring in our national investigative correspondent, michael isikoff, and michael, let's talk about the decision to release this information, to tell people some examples of exactly what these terror plots are that have been stopped. >> well, that's what we are waiting for. so far, we've only had very limi

we calls it the fisk.for and receive permission from the fisk under there to get reports that are relevant to a national security investigation they must demonstrate that it will be operated -- this is what covers intelligence gathering in the federal government. it is limited to tangible objection. these are like reports. it is dwight explicitly limited to things you could get in a -- now, it's important to know that the prosecutors issue grand jury subpoenas all the time, and do not need any involvement of a court or really anybody else to do so. until this program, we need to get permission from the court to issue this ahead of time. so there is court involvement with the issuance but the time of reports, just documents, business records, things like that, are limited to the same types of records that we were get through a grand jury subpoena. now, the orders we get last 90 days, so we have to re-up and renew these orders every 90 deals in order to do there. there are strict controls over what we can do

i did my under deprad wait work at fisk university, where i studied political science with a concentration in public administration and worked eight years largely in the public sector. then i earned a master's degree from carnegie melon in pittsburg, pennsylvania. i spent some time as assistant executive director for a non-profit. we did work if a lot of kids in the neighborhood. i have done fundraising for candidates and issues. i have experience with the federal reserve bank of san francisco. when i look around my neighborhood and see the changes that are happening, i so there is no neighborhood grocery store. i see that small businesses in particular are coming and going, and they haven't been able to really sustain themselves. from my work experience in working for the city in the mayor's office as well as in the non-profit, i had a good sense as to what some of the challenges were. when i look in the future, i could see more challenges coming. i thought i had a set of experiences and more importantly a passion and desire to serve. >> i understand that no one wants to have their progra

one day we were sitting in nashville, a little group of us young black and white students on fisk university tennessee state vanderbilt university, and a young waitress came up and said, we don't serve -- do you know what i mean when i say it? one of the young people said we don't eat them. [laughter] this book tells the story of how we studied the way of gandhi, studied the way of martin luther king jr., studied the way of civil disobedience. before we went on and he said then on the freedom ride, the march from selma to montgomery, the march on washington we prepared ourselves and many of us use the philosophy of nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living. this book will come out in three volumes. it will be published on august 13. it is my hope that elementary school students, middle school, high school students, college parents, college students and parents will pick it up and read it and pass it on. it is time for us to teach all of their people the way of love, the way of peace, the way of nonviolence, to have faith and never, ever give up or lose hope. read it. enjoy it. and wal

contact with an individual in the united states need khalid uazani, individuals identified through the fisk were able to detect a nascent plotting to bomb the new york stock exchange. uazani had been providing information and support to this plot. the fbi disrupted and arrested these individuals. also david headley, the u.s. citizen living in chicago. responsible for the killing of over 160 people. also n. sa through coverage of an al qaeda affiliate it had terrorist found that he was working on a plot to bomb a danish newspaper office that had published the cartoon depiction shuns of the prophet muhammad. in fact, headley later confessed to personally conducting surveillance of the newspaper office. he and his co-conspirators were convicted of this plot. lastly, the fbi had opened an investigation shortly after 9/11. we did not have enough information nor did we find links to terrorism, so we shortly thereafter closed the investigation. however, the nsa using the business record fisa tipped us off that this individual had indirect contacts with a known terrorist overseas. we were able to r

he and other individuals that we identified through a fisa that the fbi applied for through the fisk,e able to detect a nascent plotting to bomb the new york stock exchange. >> so the nascent plot. basically the law enforcement picked up the communications over the internet with an individual in yemen this is a nascent plot. this isn't, we're still trying to figure out if this is connected to the same plot last fall to bomb the new york stock exchange and also the new york fed. that was a plot that came out of bangladesh, an operative in bangladesh. it is not connected to the 2000 four plot to bomb the nyse and at that time citigroup and prudential building in newark but what we do know is what came out of the hearing today the 2009 subway bombing plot also, a u.s., started, u.s.-based plot that was in connection with an overseas terrorist operative. what came out of the hearing there is even more. the law enforcement officials testifying that they did not have a back door into servers of u.s. companies. that they had to get a court order to compel the companies to give the informatio

and other individuals that we identified through a pfizer fisa that the fbi applied for through the fiskct a nascent plotting to bomb the new york stock exchange. he had been providing information and support to this plot. the fbi disrupted and arrested these individuals. >> the nsa and the fbi detailed two other cases one targeting a danish newspaper and another plot. keith alexander is also disclosing the sheer number of plots they've intercepted. >> in recent years, these programs together with other intelligence have protected the u.s. and our allies from terrorist threats across the globe. to include helping prevent the terrorist, the potential terrorist events over 50 times since 9/11. >> joining me now is jim himes, democratic from connecticut. it looks to me if you listen to what the president said last night and you look at the testimony today, the president could not have been more clear. he denied that the united states government has the legal capability or intends to do if it did have the legal capability to try to find out what we're saying on the telephone or our e-mail. i

he and other individuals that we identified through a fisa that he applied applied for through the fiskt a nascent plotting to bomb the new york stock exchange. >> at this hour, this is still a developing story. we're working with the fbi, trying to get information to see if this plot was linked to the plot to bomb the nyse last fall and also the new york fed. bangladesh individual was arrested in that attempted attack and it is separate from the 2004 plot to bomb the nyse and also citigroup and prudential's building in newark, new jersey. tracy: right. >> what is at issue here the united states law enforcement officials are monitoring terrorists here in the united states in cone tex with individuals in places like yemen. they also revealed at the hearing that the surveillance did uncover the 2009 new york subway bombing plot and also 2008 terror attack. the culprits in that attack in a hotel in india. this is what we have at this hour. also more developing breaking news coming out of this hearing. essentially law enforcement is saying they do not break into the servers of u.s. companie

stop and fisk. this week's must read. let's bring in the big three panel, editor for roll call.or and msnbc contributor and strategist jimmy williams. thanks if are being with us. let me start with you. take a listen to texas governor rick perry talking about democratic senator davis after her successful filibuster of a controversial bill in texas. >> she was the daughter of a single woman. she was a teenage mother herself. she managed to eventually graduate from harvard law school and serve in the texas senate. it's just unfortunate that she hasn't learned from her own example that every life must be given a chance to realize its full potential and every matters. >>. >> i watched this closely and grou up in texas from there. does this governor have a point or was that simply poor taste? >> once again we have another man prognosticating about women'ses and privacy. it has nothing to do with the woman getting up and filibust filibustering. you have to commend her for that. it was a little bit pat ronizing. that's the male attitude you find in texas and especially le coming from h

he went on to fiske university to get a degree in religion and philosophy and volunteered for sit-ins to break the first sit-in in lunch councilors in nashville. this year marks the 50let anniversary of the big six in civil rights. as i'm sure the president will remember it was 50 years ago this august that martin luther king led a march on washington and gave his speech i have a dream on the lincoln memorial. there were six great civil rights leaders then, only one left, john robert lewis. john is my friend, i'm come patriot and our lives with are parallelled each other all the way through. john introduced me when i was elected to the house of representatives. this this year i joined john on the 50th anniversary of the crossing of the edmond pelt it's brinch in selma, alabama, the bloody march on bloody sunday which turned around the voting rights act, saw to it that every american got equal access to vote an changed the history of our country. it's a privilege to honor john today on the 50th anniversary of the crossing of the edmund pettis bridge. john recently suffered the loss of

preponderance of senior judges, david sental, most political of all judges, this is the one who fired robert fiske, a very good independent counsel and replaced him for no good reason with ken star. it is an for circuit and we have had vacancies now for a substantial number of years. while we did get one confirmed, unanimous, before that, kaitlyn halegin, superbly qualified nominee, twice was blocked. waited for over a year in effect for no good reason and that has -- as much as anything precipitated this conflict. >> well, so the -- you mentioned senior judges. this is fascinating to me to learn about. when you look at this, it is amazing. there are now four confirmed judges on the d.c. circuit who were appointed by democratic president and four from republican presidents. there are these six retired judges who still end up hearing cases and end up making decisions, five of them are conservatives. this is a circuit that's just used hard to the right. amanda, i wonder, the republican strategy in this is that what it is? we have the advantage on this highly for court, let's lock it and wait million

in 1999 she was annoyed when a guard tried to do a full body search, so she decided to fisk the guard beef label monitoring. >> stephanie: well, i feel the loss already. thanks jim for that. >> we hardly knew ye. >> stephanie: thank you for that, jim. wow that was a random german thing. hello billy in florida. >> caller: good morning, happy gay pride month. >> stephanie: thank you. go ahead. >> caller: are you planning to attend any events throughout the country? >> stephanie: i am not. no one invites me anywhere. >> she doesn't like crowds either. >> stephanie: no. i'm a shut in. twenty-nine minutes after the hour. adam schiff next on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ those types are coming on to me all the time now. >> she gets the comedians laughing... >> that's hilarious! >> ...and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there's wiggle-room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me. >> absolutely! >> and so would mitt romeny. >> she's joy behar. >> and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they

application that is made by the attorney general and the director of national intelligence to the fisk. -- the fisc. it allows the targeting to be done for a year. it has to be done at the end of that year to for it to be re- upped. there is also a requirement that again there is reporting. you cannot under the terms of collecttute have had any information on conversations that are wholly within the united states. you're targeting somebody outside the united states. if they make a call to inside the united states, that can be collected, but is only because the target of that call outside the united states initiated that call and went there. if the calls are wholly within the united states, we cannot collect them. if you are targeting a person was outside the united states, and you find that they come into the united states, we have to stop the targeting right away, and if there's any lag and and we find out we collected information because we were not aware they were in the united states, the have to take that information, purchase it from the systems, and not use it. there's a great d