joining us this week wall street journal columnist, matt kaminski and joe grego. joe, the government is collecting under this court order metadata. >> it is data about data. for a phone call it is which number called which number and how long the call lasted. information about the call but not the content of the call. it is not the lives of others. >> it is not what i'm saying to you on the phone. >> it is just the fact that i called you. what my number was. and what your number was and why are they doing this. and what do they hope to get out of this. >> what they are looking for is they are looking for the needle in the haystack. >> they are saying hey hey hey and when there is a deefiation from that normal baseline, they look out. maybe you go on a shopping free in a totally new city they might flag that as unusual or suspicious. >> mary, what is your view of that kind of data gathering. >> when i look at a program that collects this information. run by the federal government and the obama administratioadmi think what could go wrong? >> honestly, we had a feder

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back with joe rago and dan henninger washington journal editorial board member matt kaminski joins uslso. dan, how important in the fight against terror are the nsa programs. >> let's try to explain with an example, paul. u.s. security did catch a terrorist names nazi beulah azazi who was going to blow up the new york subway system. he began in denver where these activities were picked up, they were looking for patterns and pointed in the direction of these people. >> his connections overseas. at that point the nsa turned it over to the fbi and they asked the fbi to start monitoring telephone calls and they finally did zero in on this particular individual. they then tracked him from denver to new york city where agents on the ground followed him and caught him eventually before they were able to carry out a very real plot to blow up cars on the u.s. -- on the new york subway system, which i must say for those of us who live here, it is one of the biggest things you worry about every day. it worked. from top to bottom. >> your answer would be this is very, very important to deterring

kaminski: cryptosporidium was a wake-up call. it was a wake-up call for us. it's a wake-up call for the nation. take care of your infrastructure before you have the kind of problem we had. biedrzycki: by no stretch of the imagination do i think we're out of the woods. recent cdc statistics indicate that up to 32 million cases of waterborne disease occur each year in this country. roy: but the vast majority of waterborne outbreaks go undetected. when people first get ill, they think, "oh, it's something i ate last night." they don't think, "oh, it's something i drank last night." narrator: the milwaukee incident pointed out the potential vulnerability of our drinking water infrastructure in controlling the spread of illness. biedrzycki: it's incumbent upon us to try to stay ahead of the curve, but it's very, very difficult. there's always another bug on the horizon. narrator: in 2008, the associated press reported that water quality testing across the nation uncovered trace amounts of pharmaceutical compounds in the drinking water supplies of millions of ameri

for more joined by foreign affairs columnist brett stephens and editor yeah board member matt kaminskifor the last two years, they have tried to get russia to press him to leave. the reason they didn't succeed was because russia does not want him to leave. most importantly, putin does not want to have happen to assad happen to qaddafi. he does not want to see the west intervene into another country and patient the leader out. it is a bad precedent for him at home. >> one of obama's big goals coming in, reset the relations with russia. what's he have to show for it? >> what he has to do, the stark treaty and saw him in berlin. nuclear arms. nuclear reductions, which an obsession of his. otherwise, very, very little. by the way, was not the first president to try to restart relation was russia. george w. bush trade it in 2001, 2002. you find yourself dispointed by putin because he is a soviet man who believes that the greatest tragedy of the 20th century was the fall of the soviet empire and what he has been trying to do in his own way is reconstitute that empire. so keeping syria and hu

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