. >> warner: of the head of the nsa keith alexander said in testimony that 50 terrorist plots is have been foiled by this exhaustive surveillance. you don't buy that? i mean you're a member of the intelligence committee. >> congressional testimony doesn't support that proposition. in fact, john english one of the deputies there when he was asked actually-- that assertion that really found when he had to address it specifically, that it was at most a couple. and part of this is that there has been what i call a culture of misinformation among the intelligence, you know, leadership. consistently over the last few years, the intelligence leadership has said one thing in public and then quite another in private. >> warner: with its growing technological reach and prowess, do you think the

general keith alexander fielded questions from lawmakers on the senate judiciary committee the focus of the hearing was continued oversight of u.s. government surveillance authorities and it's hearings just like this one that has been a common staple on capitol hill since june since edward snowden began spilling the n.s.a. secrets out into newspapers all around the world the latest secret published today in the washington post reels how the n.s.a. is using the same techniques that corporate online advertisers use to pinpoint surveillance targets and they gather intelligence on people's locations essential to the n.s.a. is using google cookies cookies are little. packets of data that allow online advertisers to uniquely track you and me and what websites we visit in order to tailor online advertising for us cookies are the reason why web sites you go to seem to remember you and why if you search for something on google one day you'll be hit with ads for that very same thing the next day basically cookies allow for corporate advertisers to spy on your online activity and they've been d

director keith alexander called sixty minutes to invite them into the agency for an unprecedented inside look at what the n.s.a. does and what its officials think about the leaks from former contractor edward snowden media critics argue that not a single dissenting voice was feature of throughout the reporting and no tough questions were alternately asked artie's political commentators sam sachs analyzes the report as well as the blowback. sunday night a sixty minutes report which touted unprecedented access to the n.s.a. didn't start off so well full disclosure i once worked in the office of the director of national intelligence seriously seriously they couldn't have chosen a different reporter someone who say i didn't previously work for the intelligence stated john miller has always had a very close that's his schtick is that he's got this close relationship still with all his national security people he used to work with and it basically meant you've got a national security insider preventing this you know presenting this so-called big scoop but the compromised reporter really is the

as far as we know yet said that's the way it's structured right now general keith alexander is the head bowed for the nsa and the cyber command. two if it had together and knead it again at the same person will be running both leicester and have the scope of power that position has now. and also will mean that the hunted and say what the military position because the head of cyber command has to be in the attack. finally i can listen to without talking about how a top nsa official who is in charge of assessing the damage that adverts on inclines has actually said that he would consider granting senate amnesty in the hands of possibly agreed to hand over the rest of the documents and mind you it's all part of documents and did glenn greenwald in the guardian said they only released one percent. there's one point seven million documents that are believed to be in at once known as hands. the likely is that you think that there's some sort of amnesty would actually happen. this is really fast the general alexander has said that he's not in favor of best of the electorate is quite high after

surveillance program that report which featured interviews with the agency's outgoing chief keith alexander has been widely criticized as a glorified public relations piece for the n.s.a. c.b.s. reporter john miller essentially allowed alexander other intelligence officials to use sixty minutes as a platform to defend their policies here's a clip from the report. we need to help the american people understand what we're doing and why we're doing it and to put it simply we're doing two things we're defending this country from future terrorist attacks and we're defending our civil liberties and privacy. joining me now for more on all this is a hawk batar executive director of the bill of rights defense committee showed welcome back thanks for having me on top thanks for joining us so let's start with today's ruling and what's the significance of judge leon's this really wasn't a ruling it was kind of a preliminary look he ruled that he might rule and there friday enjoined but then he unemployed them self right and screw things up until he rules it was a decision on a preliminary injunction so

general keith alexander felt he had a big stake in understanding snowden, so he and rick ledgett, who snowden task force, got on a plane to hawaii. they wanted to see the scene of the crime, edward snowden's desk. did you sit in his chair? >> ledgett: i did not. i couldn't bring myself to do that. >> miller: for ledgett, the trip was important to understanding who snowden was, and going back through the bits and the bytes, they discovered the first secrets snowden stole was how to cheat on a test to get a job at the agency. >> ledgett: he was taking a technical examination for potential employment at n.s.a. he used his system administrator privileges to go into the account of the n.s.a. employee who was administering that test, and he took both questions and the answers, and used them to pass the test. >> miller: at home, they discovered snowden had some strange habits. >> ledgett: he would work on the computer with a hood that covered the computer screen and covered his head and shoulders, so that he could work and his girlfriend couldn't see what he was doing. >> miller: that's pret

today on capitol hill that sheep of the nsa general keith alexander fielded questions from lawmakers on the senate judiciary committee. the focus of an era is continued oversight of u s government surveillance up gordon's its hearings like this one of a common staple in capitol hill since june since edwards thirty million spilling us these secrets out on to newspapers around the world. the latest accra published today the washington post reveals that the nsa is using the same techniques that corporate online advertisers use to pinpoint surveillance targets in to gather intelligence on people's locations. essentially the essays using google cookies. no cookies or little packets of data and allow online outdoor advertisers to uniquely track you and me and what web sites we visited in order to tailor online advertising for us. cookies that are the reason why website you go to sea to remember you and why. if you search for something or go will one day you'll be hit with doubts for that very same thing the next day basically cookies allow for corporate advertisers to spy on your online ac

we reported in the guardian that keith alexander when he went to the nhq his role was to protect all documents. the model of alexander when he pioneered in iraq when he was in a war zone and imported onto american soil was collect it all, collect it aural, the defining overarching goal of the agency. >> i'll have more on my conversation with glen greenwald. later. >> america's top diplomat weighs in. plus, stocks soar after the fed's big announcement. are >> it was a record day on wall street. the dow was up nearly 300 points. traders were reacting to the fed's reducing of monthly bond buying from the $85 billion to $75 billion a month starting in january. i asked real money's ali velshi whether today's decision was a big surprise? >> if i had hair it would have gone white. it i was fully surprised. i listened to tv saying they knew it was coming, absolutely wasn't expected nor was the market reaction. >> i thought investors were worried about the fed cutting back on its buying. i thought it was the exact opposite move. >> yes because every time we had a threat that the fed would pull

general keith alexander is that -- caller:. good morning.general keith alexander admitted that the number of terrorist locked foiled by the -- plots foiled by the nsa's huge database was only one or, perhaps two, far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the administration. that was my clarification. i have a question. had an invention that was worth billions of dollars that you were developing, would you it on any u.s.n orhnology company's hardware software for fear that it almost certainly will be stolen? guest: first of all, on the number of attacks stopped is only do you want to stop. ones not one for correlations. stopping 9/11 would've been worthwhile. on the commercial side is the u.s. has says we do not do commercial espionage. the people that steal the blueprints, that will largely be the chinese. using american equipment will not be a problem. linking up to a foreign network, you face that risk. it is a real concern. american technology is better than most the stuff you can get overseas and probably safer. able do not like to s

miller got access to nsa director keith alexander. but viewers hoping for hard hitting questions on the most intrusive surveillance program anywhere were left wanting. in 27 minutes not one voice critical of nsa was interviewed by cbs, we were told something new about the source of the original story, former nsa contractor are edward snowden. an ex second trin who cheated on his intrangs exam. an nsa expert who refused to be involved in the program called it a puff piece and chris hayes of msnbc tweeted that it was somehow worse than twitter led me to believe. another video on their website in which they revealed the story wasn't even their idea. the nsa approached the network on it. we asked the network to comment but the network didn't respond. the new york post said he is set to return to annal intelligence position with the nsa back where he belongs. >>> a million nor weej answer had a fun friday night. they watched a program about knitting, then talk, then actual knitting. the killer ratings a knitting marathon, are the latest ca

general keith alexander compared the mass sweep of phone records to the running of the library. >> thenformation out there that billions and billions of books of information that are out there, there is no viable way to go through that information if you don't use metadata. in this case, metadata is the way of knowing where those books are in the library and a way of focusing our collection the same our allies do to look at where are the bad books. from our perspective, from the national security agency's perspective, what we do is get great insight into the bad actors overseas. >> your response to that, sascha meinrath? >> first, it is a failed metaphor, for sure, but surly, this is a case where they are scrambling to find justification for or in essence, criminalizing everyone. i that i mean, when you're doing active search and seizure of personal information -- let's be clear, metadata is still issatile information -- still personal information. what you have in essence done is said, we are crafting a dragnet where we assume the guilt of everyone. what yesterday's court ruling reall

it's a few months before keith alexander retires. so we would know who might follow him. will it be a civilian? congress, who knows how long that could take. clearly this is going to play out over weeks and months to see what is implemented. but you know, as aggressive as some of these recommendations are, the president, the white house has already made clear that you know, they want to keep the main program going forward. so you know, as americans here, is it likely a lot of the data will still be collected on us even after the president makes his decision? possible. >> jim sciutto, thank you so much, jim. >>> the biggest credit card breach in retail history has occurred. the secret service is investigating a major attack against target. information related to more than 1 million black friday shoppers at the store may have been compromised. the question, are you at risk? if so, what to do about it. let's bring in christine romans. what's the scenario. >> you are at risk. if you shopped at a target store black friday and the weeks after, there seems to have been a breach

and a day after keith alexander explained to 60 minutes that the goal of the nsa is not to read your-mails or listen to your phone calls. there are three key issues at the four of the nsa surveillance program, privacy, security, and price. of the nsaore surveillance program, privacy, security, and price. here are our guests. tell us about the ruling that just came down. >> no ifs, and, or butts about it. this is a big deal. this is a district court judge calling the core of the nsa violation capability of the constitution. it will be a lengthy appeals process. it is the first ruling that casts doubt on the administration's rulings that the fourth ae samemelast week, y interesting development. firms,ajor tech facebook, microsoft, apple, google -- usually archrivals coming together to join up on a policy statement telling the administration, asking them to work with them in these kind of situations when it comes to their work on these programs. obviously, they are seeing major blowback because of their force purchase a patient in these programs. tech companies need the administration -

cbs acknowledged that to a certain degree in saying that the sa chief keith alexander thought the nsa job of getting its message out. that's why they were willing to go ahead and cooperate with 60 minutes i can on this story last night. we'll have a lot more on then story coming up in "the situation room" later today. 5:00 p.m. eastern. >>> inside the mind of an accused terrorist. we're learning that one of the alleged boston bombers may have been hearing voices and wasn't given the mental help he needed. that's next. ♪ i want to spread a little love this year ♪ [ male announcer ] this december, experience the gift of unsurpassed craftsmanship and some of the best offers of the year at the lexus december to remember sales event. this is the pursuit of perfection. at the lexus december to remember sales event. life's an adventure and it always has been. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only d

general keith alexander says the nsa intelligence program has prevented 54 terror attacks. now put on your google glasses. google says the company has overstepped. the nsa is tapping into links connected to the company's data centers giving the government access to users information. the nsa denying those claims. tech companies are worried this could damage businesses. cloud computing companies could lose a quarter of their businesses. companies have filed against nsa. this week, they took the case to the white house. we have john with us and shivane mcdermott with us as well. she says people should be afraid of google spying on them and not the government. this brings us to the meeting this week and the tech executives at the white house. they know too much about you. i'm talking about the tech companies and the white house. why should we be afraid of google? >> they see everything you search for. they see everything you are looking at and people share a lot of information online. they are not aware of the fact information isn't just disappearing after they look for someth

when they thought nobody was able to hear what it .as they were saying there are instances where keith alexander, the general who is the chief of the nsa, has made comments along the lines of "the objective of the nsa is to collect all signal into legends, all forms of electronic medication by and between human beings." when this was first reported in "the guardian" and elsewhere, the nsa tried to dismiss it as sort of a literary allusion or even a joke. it's no joke. throughout the nsa documents, there appears continuously all sorts of references to the fact that the goal of the nsa is captured by the phrase "collect it all." whenever the u.s. and its surveillance partners meet each year at the signal the roman conference -- signal development conference -- the part is being u.k., canada, australia, and new zealand -- there are constant slogans like "collect it all" or "know it all" or "exploit it all." this is the mission of the nsa. one of the ways that you see this mission manifest is that there are numerous programs that the nsa envelops and pursues that have no real purpose other than to i

high in more than just an assertion is our feeling is far from unanimous that the nsa general keith alexander the spy agency's director told sixty minutes he opposes the deal. we don't want is the next person do the same thing for a stop to hong kong into moscow with another set of data knowing they can strike the same deal according to the nsa seventy one point seven million classified documents and has so far only released a few thousand pages. the us could potentially prevent the release of more embarrassing and damaging information that the deal was cut when i first noted the deal could be an opportunity to take this information activism and even larger states. for seven of course offers a chance to come back to defend himself to have a platform. i intend his voice heard and in what would be the loudest most interesting trial. probably this entry. according to the white house any deal involving patrick's day to go to the us justice department declined to comment. several other lawsuits against nsa programs are making their way to us courts. and if edward city continues to leak classified

they're in there is the report itself see according to everyone's favorite four star general keith alexander the n.s.a. has just been misunderstood you guys they misunderstood by the american public and they have two very important missions. to help the american people understand what we're doing and why we're doing it and to put it simply we're doing two things we're defending this country from future terrorist attacks and we're defending our civil liberties and privacy. here that currently that the n.s.a. actually defends people's privacy and civil liberties that's right i forgot that civil libertarians are really into collecting five million phone records a day creating unconstitutional monitoring programs data mining the world tracking millions of cell phone call occasions spine in the world of work of gamers and overseen people's porn habit but alexander's next challenge statement about whether n.s.a. activity is legal really makes you wonder if sixty minutes producers are on the government payroll themselves. there was nobody willfully or knowingly trying to break the law. well you can

host: that was keith alexander, head of the nsa, speaking on 60 minutes.et's go to facebook from a -- to facebook for a quick comment from john shepherd. that comment is on facebook. you can reach out to us there on facebook.com/cspan. but skittish -- take a call from sean -- let's take a call from sean in florida. caller: i just want to call and say that i believe edward snowden is a hero and an american patriot. did was gohat he through the only sources he could to get the information out. the whole time the government has been covering this up, say it wasn't happening. i do believe he is a hero and an american patriot. i appreciate you taking my call. let's go to gainesville, virginia on her line for democrats. -- on our line for democrats. caller: good morning. my comment is snowden should never be pardoned. there are so many people who try to cause damage to this great country. keeping this country safe from all those terrorists try to cause karma is a job by itself. russia was too happy to have him. you should never be pardoned because the next level

they are the only ones who don't realize it now this is the statement that most likely caused keith alexander's and james clapper as heads to explode the whole i'm doing this because i love you that we all remember as kids but snowden may have a point you can argue that the n.s.a. has lost its way the collected all method the n.s.a. is using today that you need the haystack to find the needle philosophy as far as we know has not boiled a single terrorist plot but it has led secret documents of shown to a lot of overload at the n.s.a. databases it's led to the construction of an extremely expensive massive glitch riddled spy center in utah and it's led to perhaps the greatest threat to constitutional first and fourth amendment rights that our nation has seen in quite a long time the n.s.a. really really wants to call snowden a traitor but in the end he just might be their savior. in washington d.c. sam socks are today. for more insight on this we actually talked to the journalist who broke this story barton gellman you just got back recently from talking to snowden in a fourteen hour interview w

interesting is that we've been hearing from the intelligence agencies we've been hearing from keith alexander for months ever since ever snowden came out with these leaks that the the the courts that they had that there was enough overhead by the courts and the executive branch to prevent violations of the constitution liberties but it's very clear that once a court that it wasn't the foreign intelligence surveillance court looked at the n.s.a. strategies they saw immediately that they were constitutional liberties violations going to actual actual court i'm going to show you isn't there a bit of an issue here that has there is ok you go on i've got one to my bigger issue is the seventy percent of what's going on is being done by private corporations and i think we're seeing the same thing that we see with private prisons the private risen say hey we need more customers let's pass more drug laws or this past harsher sentencing guidelines if you got seventy percent of the of the sales budget is in the hands of private corporations like booz allen hamilton we're . used to work on own by carlisl

general keith alexander is that -- caller:. good morning.ral keith alexander admitted that the number of terrorist locked foiled by the -- plots foiled by the nsa's huge database was only one or, perhaps two, far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the administration. that was my clarification. i have a question. had an invention that was worth billions of dollars that you were developing, would you it on any u.s.n orhnology company's hardware software for fear that it almost certainly will be stolen? guest: first of all, on the number of attacks stopped is only do you want to stop. ones not one for correlations. stopping 9/11 would've been worthwhile. on the commercial side is the u.s. has says we do not do commercial espionage. the people that steal the blueprints, that will largely be the chinese. using american equipment will not be a problem. linking up to a foreign network, you face that risk. it is a real concern. american technology is better than most the stuff you can get overseas and probably safer. able do not like to say t

white house was asked about the possibility of granting working at the national security agency, keith alexander who runs the national security agency, both were interviewed on 60 minutes. and mr. legett was asked, should mr. snowden be given amnesty to limit the harm to the administration, staunch advocates of bringing snowden to justice. jay carney's view, here he is: >> our position hasn't changed on that. what i can tell you, is this: mr. snowden has been accused of leaking classified information and he faces felony charges in the united states. he should be returned to the united states where he will be . >> you said it, mike viqueria, in washington, thank you. >>> syrian war plains once again attacked opposition positions in the city of aleppo a day after air strikes killed 76 people, the united nations is asks for more help for those affected by the civil war that has left over 100,000 dead. >> desert 88thed beyond all imagination. the people of syria cannot afford another year, another month, even another day of brutality and destruction. >> well activists say at least 28 children were k

and general keith alexander doesn't think it is a good idea. john boltop, what do you think?d day to you? >> i don't know why they are talking about it publicly. is there a possible back room deal that is happening now? >> it is possible, but absent some other important piece of information, it has to be one of the dumbest things to be speculating about it publicly even if they are comtemplating a deal with snowden and amnesty. the last thing people ought to do is enhance snowden's bargaining power. >> why are they doing it then? >> i think it is a big mistake. i have no idea. in my vow snowden committed troezon and ought to be convicted and ought to swing from a tall oak tree. that is closer to what you should be doing to enhance the bargaining leverage. we don't know how much of what snowden has and gave to the chinese and russians or they took from him and he doesn't know about. we have a big problem comtemplating amnesty that he may have solid the data already. >> 1.7 million documents, is that possible? >> it is entirely possible. i don't underestimate how severe the int

. >> general keith alexander, the man who runs the nsa, granted us unprecedented access and interviews. the head of the nsa doesn't believe the real story is being told. >> there was nobody willfully or knowingly trying to break the law. >> general alexander talks about the myths and realities of the claims made by edward snowden. >>> for 444 days, a hostage crisis gripped america. now you'll see how hardliners in iran are exploiting the former u.s. embassy in teheran. elizabeth palmer takes us inside for a rare tour. >>> plus, mark zuckerberg tells us about his new mission. >> the hollywood red carpet is rolled out in silicon valley. we'll show you how facebook's founder is trying to make science sexy. >> the news is back in the morning here on "cbs this morning." stay tuned for your local news. >> this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by kay jewelers. and internets. everything needs a battery. oh, hank. merry christmas. oh! hold on now. kay jewelers? it's beautiful. looks like we got us a young man here. [ female announcer ] the charmed memories collection at kay jewelers. fea

there are instances where keith alexander, the general who is the chief of the nsa has made comments along the lines of >> there are documents devoted to trying to understand how to better invade the wi-fi systems on airplanes, based on the concerns and that human beings can still go on airplanes and use the internet or phones for a few hours in their lives and not be susceptible to surveillance. there are documents that discuss ways to circumvent advanced encryption tools out of your that individuals will develop the means to be a will to communicate with one another privately without the nsa being able to invade those communications. what we are really faced with is not just the creation of the most invasive system of suspicionless surveillance ever built in human history, although we are certainly faced with that, but it is beyond that. it is an institution that has embedded into the mandate the mission to ensure that human beings can no longer communicate with each other electronically with any degree of privacy, simply through institutional inertia there is an effort to collect

general keith alexander compare the mass sweep of phone records to the running of a library. >> if you look at all of the information out there, the billions and billions of books of information that are out there, there is no viable way to go through that information if you don't use metadata. in this case, metadata is a way of knowing where those books are in the library and a way of focusing our collection, the same our allies do, to look at where are the bad books. from our perspective, the national security agency's perspective, we get great insights into the bad actors overseas. >> a proposal from democratic senator patrick leahy would end the bulk collection of phone records without a court order. but alexander told lawmakers that even if approved, the measure would not necessarily in new orleans collection depending on judicial interpretation. refusingn leaders are to meet with ukraine president theor yanukovych in aftermath of an intensified crackdown, demanding his resignation. dozens of people were winded on wednesday when rightly stormed a large protesting kamman. the offic

in the same segment, his , saysor, keith alexander he opposes amnesty for snowden. >> this is analogous to a hostage taker taking 10 people hostage, shooting 10, and then saying if you give me 40, i will let the others go. i think people have to be held accountable for their actions. what we do not want is for the next person to do the same thing with another set of data knowing they can strike the same deal. are stillicials unaware of exactly how much information he took from their system. a kansas airport technician was arrested friday after trying to carry out an alleged bomb threat. terry loewen used to security access to carry a truck that he thought was carrying explosives onto the tarmac in wichita, but it was billed must oscillate into made sure that the materials were inner. mr. loewen spent months developing a plan to use his access card to the airport to drive a car loaded with explosives to the terminal. it is alleged he planned to pull the trigger on the explosives himself and die as a martyr. agents arrested him at about 5:40 a.m. as he attempted to use his access card to

assessing the damage caused by edward snowden, they are willing to consider it but cia director keith alexander said he is not. and this afternoon the white house said their position is joe den should face due process has not changed. >>> there are concerns about those assigned to guide you through the obamacare system, and a harm over the way politics is played and how the administration has done business. ed henry has all of that tonight. >> house republicans continued their assault on president obama's health care law today with a field hearing in texas zeroing in on the workers who try to help enroll people. darrell issa a frequent critic aired navigators have weak background checks that may expose consumers personal information to fraud and claims that navigators have tried to encourage enrollees to lie about their income in order to raise their subsidies. >> we cannot have a repeat of the acorn like activities that led to too many people believe tlg was -- believing there was something for nothing and ultimately ending up with nothing when they started with something. >> jay carney was ha

from the military cyber command, those are now under the joint leadership, the joint command of keith alexanderthe head of the organization, the president said he won't do that. >> and jim, appreciate your reporting, joining me tonight, glenn greenwald andever toobin join me now. glenn, what do you make of this report? >> it is extremely important, especially in the wake of the federal court ruling, found that the collection program is unconstitutional or likely so. now you have the hand-picked panel of advisers, concluding that the program in its current form should stop and it poses a dangerous threat to core liberties. also there is no evidence that it plays an important role in stopping terrorist attacks. >> jeff, again, as glenn said coming on the heels of the court ruling being unconstitutional, what do you make of it? >> well, i think i find myself in uncharacteristic agreement with glenn, by and large, although there is an important aspect that i just don't really understand. what they suggest is moving the meta data away from the nsa to the private sector. now, do we trust the private

head of the nsa snowden task force floated the possibility of amnesty for snowden while nsa head keith alexandertion supported by most of the agency. >> this is analogous to a hodge taker taking 50 people hodge, shooting ten and saying if you give me full leniency i'll let the other 40 go. what do you do? >> it's a dilemma. >> it is. >> in the meantime snowden's detractors continue to protest against him. yesterday. >> my view is that snowden committed treason. he ought to be convicted of that, and then he ought to swing from a tall oak tree. >> while snowden continues to stand trial in the court of public opinion, whether he will ever return to the u.s. to face actual trial is anyone's guess. for advocates and detractors alike, this is a blessing in disguise. this weekend "new york times" revealed officials may never know the extent of snowden's leaks. joining us now u.s. national security editor for "the guardian" spencer ackerman. tell us, if you will, what you think the ruling means in the broader picture in and around the nsa. >> it's absolutely a devastating thing for the nsa. the nsa has

months ago,iew two keith alexander, the soon to retire director of the nsa and commander of the militaryyber a majorsuggested that comeback in american spying on foreign nationals would be naÏve -- a major cutback in american spying on foreign nationals would be naÏve. surprised how often they have been asked to weigh damage against -- the white house conduct a regular review of those collection activities, the way covert action by the cia is reviewed annually. recommendation is the creation of an organization of legal advocates who would argue against lawyers for the nsa in front of the foreign intelligence surveillance court, the secret court that oversees the collection of telephone and internet metadata and of wiretapping aimed at terrorism and espionage suspects. mr. obama has hinted that he objects to the absence of any adversarial procedures in front of the court's judges. that is just some of what david sanger wrote in "the new york times." calling from myrtle beach, south carolina on the republican line. you are on "washington journal." caller: good morning. i would like to make