i think most people are concerned that nsa is willy-nilly getting content or doing searches. i do believe that we make sure that that can never have. >> even if they're not getting content or searches, they're getting a heck of a lot of information as everyone who knows what that phone data is, should someone choose to misuse it.

not only among the mac and public, but also around the world, that somehow we are out there willy- nilly just sucking in information on everybody and doing what we please with it. .nd that is not the case here n our laws specifically prohibit us from surveilling u.s. persons without a warrant and their are safeguards that are put in place to make sure that that basic print bowl is abided by -- basic

>> the constitution is being changed willy-nilly all the time. everytime the supreme court meets, and we sit here in june on the edge of our chair with some breathtaking decision that has no constitutional basis or very, very thin basis, that is amending the constitution, when the president of the united states, as today, suspends some part of a federal law or chooses not tone force another part of the federal law because he disagree -- >> neil: has he broken the law? >> yes. >> neil: the law is null and void. >> i can declare it null and void. the problem is the system is broken. who is going to enforce this? barren is not -- boehner is not and he can't. >> neil: says change the constitution to get it back to -- essentially simplicity. limit taxing and spending. how can you do that? what would be written in the constitution and what would connotes race vs. substance. >> i'm not saying change the constitution. i'm saying breathe the life back in the constitution. >> neil: you want it written somewhere, like ronald reagan, a constitutional amendme

i think most people are concerned that nsa is willy-nilly getting content or doing searches.do believe that we make sure that that can never have. >> even if they're not getting content or searches, they're getting a heck of a lot of information as everyone who knows what that phone data is, should someone choose to misuse it. >> that's the key point, should they choose to misuse it. so if somebody has -- if you had reasonable suspicion that a phone number was involved in terrorist activity, i would want you to be able to query that quickly. i would want you to figure out who that person is calling. my concern is that the official at nsa gets to make that judgment by themselves without going to the court and before the court you don't have an adversarial proceeding. >> one of the fisa judges that listens to these, hey, can we go look further into this, u.s. district judge reggie walton had this to say recently in "the washington post." the fisc, meaning the court, is forced to rely upon the accuracy of the information that is provided to the court. so the nsa brings all its i

he said, people think i'm willy-nilly watching, but it's not really like that. here's how he said it. >> and a general impression has, i think, taken hold, not only among the american public, but also around the world, that somehow, we're out there, willy-nilly, just sucking in information on everybody and doing what we please with it. now, that's not the case. >> now, he says that's not the case, chad, but this week there were more revelations this time that the government was watching every single e-mail that you send or receive, that it hasn't an overseas sender or recipient. is there abuse? >> well, no. and in fact, if you would go back and look at the videotape from snowden, and ask yourself the question, where is the name of the individual who was spied on? what is the name of the nsa analyst that he says abused the program? and the answer is, you can't find one, because he doesn't actually say that there was abuse. he speculates as a system administrator, that he thinks that the program is wrong. so he doesn't expose wrongdoing, he just disagrees with the

we seem to be karening willie and nilly to this camera side. we are crossing the line now between reasonable, video surveillance in public being a reasonable part of the policing or police action and you get into the unreasonable police infringement of the 4th amendment. let me read you one of these conditions so you can see what i'm talking about. i have probably seen 20 of these in the last few years. if you have a conditional license and pretty much everybody does in san francisco, you can petition the abc to give you a license and in that petition they have give you the conditions. but this one says the petitioner shall utilize electronic equipment to record inside and outside of the premises and must be kept for 30 days and made available for the police department. that is pretty big brother and i will tell you why. i think berry is right. if there is some reason to have that surveillance, it should be made available. if you don't want to give it up, then a judge can get it from you. however, my job is to save my clients money and do the r

you just can't go willy-nilly and launch some strikes. and define the goal.hat's what a lot of people are looking for. to see if this remains a limited mission. >> one of the u.s.' biggest allies, british prime minister david cameron moving forward. there's also basically some other countries like iran who are saying we should hold off. what do you expect to happen? >> do you see the president holding back? >> i think the united states has made up its mind. one of the interesting things, by telegraphing what we're going to do is trying to set up saying this is going to be a limited mission. this is not going to be sending ground troops. again, it's really important to see what the president has to say about this, what the united states mission is. is this going to be afghanistan where the troops are in for years, a decade or so? i think the president has to lay that out. >> thanks a lot. for more, check out "first read" on nbcnews.com. now, we want to turn to the weather. a wet wednesday out there on the national mall. >> unfortunately. with so many people sh

taken hold not only among the american public but also around the world, that shower's out there wily nilly just sucking in information on everybody, and doing what we please with it. now that's not the case. our laws specifically prohibit us from surveiling u.s. persons without a warranting. and there are a whole range of safeguards that have been put in place to make sure that that basic principles is abided by. but what is clear is that whether because of the instinctive bias of the intelligence community to keep everything very close, and probably what is a fair criticism is my assumption that if we had checks and balances from the courts and congress, that that traditional system of checks and balances would be enough to give people assurance that these programs were run properly. you know, that assumption, i think, proved to be undermined by what happened after the leaks. i think people have questions about this program. and so as a consequence, i think it is important for us to go ahead and answer these questions. what i am going to be pushing the ic to do is rather than have a trunk

gwen: there was something throughout this press conference whether casual descriptions about willy-nilly this and school boys that. it seemed that in this particular case he couldn't be doing it by accident. the relationship between -- >> yeah. gwen: and medvedev and he, very different. >> very, very different. and you don't say those things about another world leader. you just don't say those things if you're trying to say it with great respect. there was no great respect there. anything he said. and it's not a reset button, it's a rewind button. it really is. he said it's time for a pause. you can -- and thinking this week, you can almost see president obama just saying, i've had it with that guy. i've just had it with that guy. let him slouch somewhere else. gwen: he made that slouching comment, that this is what you notice, body language. t when we meet, we're blunt, candid. and sometimes -- >> pause. and occasionally helpful or constructive. >> right:exactly. there is no question that that international putdown was meant to be a slap at someone in russia, fancy themselves a blend of

in two thousand and eight they pretty much did that they supported all their buddies you know willy nilly during that period the very rapidly thereafter they traded all that debt for u.s. government bonds government guaranteed mortgages so they're doing the same thing the feds always been doing which is buying the safest possible debt they're not going to go up and buy all the bad corporate debt or all of bad mortgages that are owned by the banks now something that i have more or less anticipated i think shocked a lot of people was what happened in cyprus i mean where was all the money printing where was the central bank the e.c.b. coming in you know on a white horse saying we're the lenders of last resort where's the money dropped from helicopters what they did was they came into the cyprus to the country of cyprus and basically said we are seizing your bank accounts in other words are not bailing you out we're taking your money these are these are still bankers at heart and they don't want to go under they don't want to go bankrupt they're not giving money away they want to be paid back

. >> if they decide willy nilly they're not going to bargain fairly, what other action do we have?hat other consequence is there for bad behavior? everybody is having worse conditions. >> but threats of bart strikes have become all too common. he says a third party arbitrator may be just the ticket. >> take the case to an arbitrator and have that decision of the third party finding. >> well, bart and the the union can't agree on a contract. this is one thing they do agree on. now we're told lawmakers will talk about this at the state capitol next week. reporting live in walnut creek. jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> it's a bitter battle, thank you, jodi. another strike may be imminent. but it's not bart we're talking about. transit workers delivered a strike notice today in oakland. if their contract dispute isn't done by tomorrow night, they plan to hit the picket line by wednesday. at issue, familiar themes. pay raises and health care costs. >> in other news tonight, south bay gang members are on notice. the unit was a victim of budget cuts but it's now back for the month of

general impression has taken hold around the world that somehow we are taking in information willy nillyormation about everybody and doing what we please with it and that is not the case. >> the new revelations in the washington post seem to contradict contradict. mistakes are a part of life. >> i mean not necessarily in context as congressman king just side of the overall calls that are being put into work that the nsa is doing. the only question here is there any evidence that the government is abusing it's power to spy on american peoples? >> we still do not have any evidence of that? >> do you believe that? >> anytime our privacy is at stake americans have to take that seriously. there needs to be an advocate for privacy. there need to be more resources so that the branchs of government can police this thing. 80% of the violations were either technical in nature or involved typographical errors and 100% of them were in add vertant. there is not a conspiracy out there where they are listening in on our conversations. >> congressman, you know, you came out strongly on this topic the ot

i don't think we want a world where every one of our soldiers is giving out willie nilly informationense of consequence. i don't think that would be a good world. but at the same time it's a fact that political figures are constantly leaking information for political benefit, and indeed, as a nation state, we are stealing the secrets of other nations as we know in particular from another leaker named edward snowden. so you have to put that in context when you are looking at the bradley manning story. he may have been naive in the way that he leaked, but people have to put this in perspective, because the government talks out of both sides of its mouth, pretending that oh, my god, i'm so shocked that there was a leak when the government leaks every day for political advantage. >> david: we'll be right back to talk about eliot spitzer and lance armstrong to talk about why do smart and powerful people do such stupid things. >> david: we're back with director alex gibney, his newest fill system "we steal secrets: the story of wikileaks." we're going to turn to some of his other works tha

they could destroy a bank willy-nilly without congress being able to do anything about it, correct?s. and they're not even under very strict control from the federal reserve and they get their funding from the federal reserve but, there's no, there is, no particular likelihood that the federal reserve could control them in any true sense. so they're kind of out there doing their thing and people particularly they seem to beatings up on the smaller lenders and, those are the lenders that are in a lot of difficulty. david: small and big banks, let me put knit a nutshell, you tell me if i'm right. the big banks because of all the deals they can make with the low interest rates, the dollar carry deals, et cetera, they're making billions of dollars. so they can pay the billions in legal fees. the small banks can't do that. that's why they're getting hurt. >> and they're dropping like flies so, yeah. david: while we have a president who claims he is speaking for the little guys they're the ones getting hurt the most. jpmorgan, they're definitely one of the big guys. they have paid out i t

dennis: the whole reason that the college costs went up is because federal money handed out willy-nillyt checks among without making sure you even enrolled. and when a supply of dollars floods the market the prices go up. now president obama is out there say he lost to keep costs down. don't take over the federal loan market. it's a bold proposal. should bankruptcy protection be an option for student loans? log on to gerriwillis.com and vote on the right hand side of the screen. we will share the results of the end of the show. when we come back, the teeth -- key to turning this economy around. the planted accelerate job growth. dennis: americans are sitting on and natural gas gold mine. a vast resources lie at our fingertips to break a dependence on foreign oil. yes the hollander is the co-founder of the fuel freedom foundation, a nonpartisan, painted dedicate a break in the addiction to opec oil by removing barriers to competition. he joins me now. we have met before. he basically made millions of dollars in tech. you know what it's like to be in a country surrounded by a whole bunch

the administration didn't listen to employers and to insurance companies and just sort of ran willy-nillyem, would say this guy is an auto krat and in different to people make it work, the insurance companies and employers. so we listen to them, then they say my gosh, a different set of rules for employers and the insurance company. first of all, it is not going to last, obviously you have sort of a delay in terms of imposing the rule, but nobody said the rule has been done away with. i would say this, it is very clear that there are problems with obama care and that this is going to be a massive undertaking, and there are going to be delays, there are going to be problems, there are going to be glitches as the president has said, and for his political opponents, there will be a constant feeding frenzy. >> to that point, if there are problems and delays, why not delay the whole thing, charles. >> that's what republicans would like. if i could answer what secretary sebelius said, she said it is not a matter of debate, it is now the law. the reason people have trouble with that idea, tradit

but you can imagine a world in which the police can willie nilly knock on anybody's doors and go and search their houses without a warrant or without a reason. that's not the world we have because we live in a world of a constitution. even under judge sheindlin's opinion, stop and frisk is allowed to continue. but it needs to continue with some limits on it. better training of officers before hand. better oversight of them afterwards and then there's this very difficult question about the racial composition of who is stopped. >> if you have a police department that's basically tou neighborhoods with the most police. do you pretend you're going to go to the safest neighbors and start frisking elderly. you've got to use some kind of common sense. >> stop and frisk is not like airport searches where we tolerate the 80-year-old grandma getted, because it's not intrusi intrusive, it's not that big deal, it's not humiliating. but it is effect tiff somewhat in crime. but then the question is, so you've got this -- a group of people who are the victims of crime but they're also the perpetrat

they used to sign your pledge willy-nilly. >> camp signed pledge, camp has kept his commitment scarede'll do tax reform, he that is his to session, the guy who changed his posion is baucus who saidly was wante hewanted to do tax rew been instructed. neil: let's say you are right, then that means nothing is getting done, the two on that matter alone are far enough aport to indicate we're looking at late next month a shut down. >> no, no. tax reform is separate. neil: i understand that, but you know what i'm getting at? they are still polar opposites with deals with the underlying issues. >> this is not secret, republicans want to keep taxes low, spend less, the democrats want to raise taxes to spend more, they are in disagreement. we'll have this fight on the continues resolution, and debt ceiling, and when we get to tax reform we'll have it then too. neil: all right, well, keep an eye on them, grover norquist. always a thorn in their side in a good way. >> you help us we'll help you. weird timing $2 between the $ 10 billion government contract with verizon. before copd... i took my so

dennis: the whole reason that the college costs went up is because federal money handed out willy-nillyredit checks among without making sure you even enrolled. and when a supply of dollars floods the market the prices go up. now president obama is out there say he lost to keep costs down. don't take over the federal loa market. it's a bold proposal. should bankruptcy protection be an option for student loans? log on to gerriwillis.com and vote on the right hand side of the screen. we will share the results of the end of the show. when we come back, the teeth -- key to turning this economy around. the planted accelerate job growth. right now, 7 years of music is being streamed. a quarter million tweeters are tweeting. and 900 million dollars are changing hands online. that's why hp built a new kind of server. one that's 80% smaller. uses 89% less energy. and costs 77% less. it's called hp moonshot. and it's giving the internet the room it needs to grow. this&is gonna be big. hp moonshot. it's time to build a better enterprise. together. join us at projectluna.com (horn, ding, ding) how

you will go through life willy nilly and you will accept it. some of us know that's not the case. this is a post constitutional period. you look at obama care as i am talking about congress passed a law they had no power to pass. congress signed a law they had no law to sign. the supreme court amended the constitution if you will and i am posed it on us. we are being told that's it you can't be funded you stuck to it there's nothing you can do about it. the hell with that there are things we can do about it. the more our government legislates and operates like this the worse it is going to get. the fire walls of the constitution are preabreached y about it and go into great detail the left has been the status have been successful. beyond their wildest dreams which is why you say folks constitutional america. how does this give more power to the states and what was anticipated you quote the federalist papers a lot through out the book. what were they intending to put this specific process in place that could be used one day? >> they had to do this in part because the constitution w

. >> egypt is an important country and i think we have to be very, very careful before we willy-nillyust cut off aid. >> when we threaten something as we did that we could cut off aid, the administration did, and not do it, you lose your credibility. >> it's counterproductive and shows nothing about american weakness to continue it. >> i think that the approach has to be to condition our future aid. >> we certainly shouldn't cut off all aid. there's no good options in egypt. >> there's some of the reaction in washington this morning to the deadly violence in egypt. there is another confrontation under way. muslim brotherhood supporters are going to hold a protest in front of the supreme court. there are troops and razor wire outside that building. early this morning, egyptian police and military went on raids rounding up some 300 mid--level officials and field operatives in several cities. among all of this, general sisi said, there's rup for everyone in egypt and we are cautious about every drop of egyptian blood. he also added that the government will not established by and watch th

he said is california banana republic where we tax people willy-nilly in violation of the law?yeah it is. brian, i'm sorry. make your plea right now. if there's any legislator from california out there listening, make your plea. i mean how unfair is this? how much does this hurt you? >> i'm not going to make a plea. this will all come down to common sense. you put forth and opportunity to start and grow businesses in this state. and then you try to take it away retroactively. that is going to have huge economic impact on the future of california it is as simple as that. the not necessarily about me and my personal stake in all this. melissa: okay. >> it is about the future of this state and people need to address it accordingly. >> melissa one quick thing -- melissa: i wish you had started crying and might have helped that was your chance. one quick thing. >> don't forget last year california passed an income tax rate increase. it was also passed retroactively best tax increase was even announced. this is the new standard of operation in california. tax people after the fact. m

congress not keen on president obama going willie-nilly on this, and what does this telegraph, good orhe assad administration? >> well, it's telegraphing to them that we are undecided and very weak. you know, obama has really been cornered by his own words. if you look at what's gone on in the past few days, iranians came out and said, if we are going to attack syria, they are going to attack israel, and at this point, obama is back into a very bad corner because he's going to risk israel being attacked and go ahead with what he's planning, or, number two, back off, in which case, the iranians say, hey, we backed him down. isn't he just another chicken heart? he has to do something. the problem is, neil, there's nothing good to do. we should not be doing anything to intervene in syria. neil: all right, now, i had john mccain here the other day, and, of course, as you know, he's a big believer that we should be doing more. we should have gotten involved earlier, and he says that there are good guys there we know. it's not al-qaeda elements mixed with the good guy, and we are missing a g

that somehow they got there willy, nilly, just sucking in information on everybody and doing what we please with it. that's not the case. our laws specifically prohibit us from survailing u.s. persons without a warrant, and there are a whole range of safeguards that have been put in place to make sure that, that basic principle is abided by. but... but what is clear is that, whether because of the instinctive bias of the intelligence community to keep everything very close and probably what's a fair criticism is my assumption that if we had checks and balances from the courts and congress, that that traditional system of checks and balances would be enough to give people assurance that these programs were run properly. you know, that assumption i think proved to be undermined by what happened after the leaks. i think people have questions about this program. and there's no doubt that mr. snowden's leaks triggered a much more rapid and passionate response than would have been the case if i had simply appointed this review board to go through-- and i'd sat down with congress and we had

egypt's an important country, and i think we have to be very careful before we willy nilly just cut off aid. >> the region is in crisis, you're back from syria and jordan and iraq. you have conflicts in those countries right now. and at the same time, it seems like secretary kerry is investing a lot of time in the does the administration have its priorities straight here in your view? >> let me say one thing quickly, george. i hope to have an aid relationship with egypt. most of the money is out the door this year, it's time for us to recalibrate. the relationship has been static for the last 35 years. i don't want to cut off our relations. i do expect we will have aid forth coming in a way that really directly focuses on our national interests. >> but not cut off? >> but, look, i think we need to tier it. there are certain things that should not flow. there are certain things in the national interest that continue to need to flow. we want their cooperation in northeast sinai with the suez canal. look at our national interest. i think aid will continue to flow after we have this debate

or licking willie's nilly. >> what? no!ne at this show -- you would be like our whole show is about sexual harassment. >> if i lick the side of your face, would you be liable? >> stephanie: i don't know. i would like it. i forced jim to sexually harass me in the elevate. >> i think i touched your ass once or twice. >> stephanie: you didn't like it, but jim did. >> actually i did kind of like it. >> stephanie: maybe it is because we have skipped the course as well -- >> let's sue san diego. >> stephanie: travis just im-ed me, he said don't bring up cuddling duty again. >> stephanie: do it travis. he added the city will almost certainly be liable for paying for the defense. look what you made me do! [ applause ] >> and we thought comic con was the stinkiest thing in san diego. >> stephanie: no. it's filthy filner. it went a step further by suing the mayor in superior court seeking to hold him personally liable for any damages. >> wow. >> stephanie: i love that story. >> have we lost all common sense in america? >> i was not t

and i'm not into amending the constitution willy-nilly. i'm into following the process, the constitution itself grants us. we are the progeny of the constitution. this is our heritage. we can beg for all we want. we go beg the supreme court not to issue outrageous decisions based on their own policy preferences. they ignore us. the president of the united states could care less what we think. so this is a way the framers believed for the grassroots, the people engaged with state delegates and state senators to begin a long process of taking our congress back. >> this is an answer to all the people who are watching the status create this all powerful central government, and assault on individual liberty all the people that say what can we do, this is the answer. article 5 provides two methods to make these amendments. explain in total what that means. it has only been used one way. historically. 27 amendments. it has only been used the one way, explain the second way. >> two-thirds members can propose it and you need the states to ratify th

innovative approach and rewarding people who do a good job as opposed to to spreading money out willy-nilly. we spent $150 billion a year in student aid that goes directly to the universities tied to the student. this will change it and tie it to performance, to outcome. and if you look at the numbers over the last 30 years, the income of average families has gone up 15%. yet the cost of a college education has gone up 250%. >> the president was trying to get this message out yesterday, he was heckled by two women who held up a sign that said "free bradley manning." we heard from manning's lawyers yesterday that he wants to live out his liven as a woman and undergo hoe money therapy while in prison and be called chelsea. >> clearly private manning has problems and challenges. i believe the 35-year sentence is extremely heavy. he will be available for parole after a certain number of years in federal prison. but given the 16 trillion dollar debt the taxpayers and my constituents are setting, this is not a priority i'm hearing about from my constituents. they are concerned about education. th

hold not only among the american public but also around the world that somehow we're out there willy-nilly sucking in information on everybody. and doing what we please with it. that's not the case. >> so in this press conference yesterday, president obama addressed concerns over the government's ability to monitor communications and track our activities online and on the phone. fears about domestic spying and surveillance have been running high since classified information about the nsa's program first leaked with outrage from both the left and the right what about the came intrusions we're not talking about? what about the spanish mom who cannot run out without her i.d. in case she's stopped. what about the cuban american who cannot go to a baseball game without eyes on him every second and what about black teenage here's know they'll be questioned by police. activist tim wise wrote this about the nsa leaks. >> those who were especially chapped about the program, about the very concept of their government, keeping tabs on them, in effect profiling them as potential criminals, as terroris