operating systems such as lloyd grove like told the think that a couple of the colbert report groups talk to one should those who haven't switched worry about their every move being tracked the loss of her jeremy bentham who wrote about the idea of a perfect prison called the panopticon which is the idea of having a prison cell that was built in a circular fashion so that all of the cells would be on the outside and in the center of the prison you'd have a guard tower where the prisoners couldn't see into the guard tower so they couldn't see if they were being watched by at any particular time and so the prisoners would start to act as if they were being watched at all times the revelations about what the n.s.a. is doing does play into that agenda because now there are people who who realize they are being listened to. spied on at all times and are adjusting their speech accordingly they might be afraid to speak on certain issues because even if they are innocent they feel that it's wrong to speak out against the government or go to taking off with coup proof nightmares like this the

but i ran into -- when i arrived at eliot's office, lloyd grove was just leaving. >> oh wow. >> bill:vator door opens and lloyd was waiting for the elevator. we've been friends for a long time. oh, my god, i know why you're here. and he said oh yeah, i was just talking to eliot. i said i know because i was going to see eliot at 4:00 and i got a text saying why don't you come 20 minutes later because i have an interview at 4:00 when i saw lloyd eliot told me he had some dumb interview at 4:00. [ laughter ] lloyd said that was me. good profile on dailybeast.com. all right, so let's talk about the filibuster yesterday. you know what happened. we got to the brink -- we've been talking about this leading up to it. so we get to the brink of the nuclear option yesterday and both sides blinked at the brink. so there is no nuclear option. you probably know, here's what the deal was. so they had this big meeting in the old senate chamber. 98 out of 100 senators were there. they talked and they talked and they talked and they agreed upon this. there were seven nominees up. the republicans said o