. >> reporter: obama administration officials are neither confirming or denying the report.

this morning, a senior obama administration official defended the idea of such an order, that this type of information described in this report has been critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist attacks. >> new and startling developments abroad in the investigation into the deadly san bruno pipeline explosion. the entire government legal team investigating the blast has resigned. according to the central city officials, four of the california public utilities commission lawyers quit. they were the commissioner's main experts on the 2010 blast that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. several city officials are now calling on the state attorney general to look into the reasoning behind the resignations. the news comes as the agency was to decide a fine for pg&e. agency investigators recently called for pg&e to be fined 2.2 $5 billion. >> customers are worried after a pharmacy employee who worked at two east bay target stores test positive for hepatitis a. the employee who worked at the pharmacy at both the hayward and san leandro target stores 8 the contaminated, and n

an obama administration official did not confirm a british newspaper report that the national securityting the phone records of millions of verizon customers, regardless of whether they were suspected of doing anything wrong or not. this top secret court order includes the numbers dialed, the location, duration of the calls but not what was said. it suggests that u.s. intelligence is continuing a campaign of domestic surveillance that started under the bush administration in 9/11. i spoke with one man who isn't sure why his calls are anyone's business. >> sure. it is an invasion of privacy. it is nobody's business to know how long i have been on the phone and where i'm calming or anything else. >> reporter: does it surprise to hear this? >> this day and age, no. it seems like every day, every week, we have some revelation of some privacy being invaded. >> reporter: the order relies on a provision under the usa paid trut act. they are suing the nha over surveillance issues in the united states. he says, it is very unlikely have your eye zon would verizon would be the only carrier covere

obama administration officials say information gathered on americans is destroyed. today president obama meets with the federal privacy and civil liberties oversight board that reviews anti-terrorism programs. >> and house leaders on both sides of the aisle are blaming each other after the house rejected a half trillion-dollar farm bill. the vote was 234-195. the five-year measure would have cut $2 billion a year from the food stamp program. it would have also allowed states to impose new work requirements on food stamp recipients. >>> and senate leaders appear to have reached a compromise on immigration reform. the deal involves tough new border security but would also eventually grant citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the u.s. but the deal is likely to face stiff opposition in the house. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning. senate approval of this bill is far more likely this morning now that two republican senators came up with a plan for what's being called a border search. the question is wil

. >> reporter: the obama administration officials say all of this is legal approved by special intelligence court and there are extensive safeguards if place here. as for those nine internet companies involved, five of them flatly deny any knowledge of the prism program. diana and john? >> all right, devin, what are we are hearing from top u.s. aggressive officials? >> reporter: this a rare e-mail james clappard say they could tip off america's enemies to what we're doing, make it harder for the u.s. to track them and says the leaks give a misleading impression and that the government is not listening in to americans' phone calls or snooping in their online accounts. john and diana. >> all right, devin, thank you in washington for us this morning. >>> well, president obama wakes up this morning in california where later today he'll begin historic summit with china's president much the two met at the white house 16 months ago. among the most -- the issues almost certain to come up in their conversation is cybersecurity, china's reported high-tech spying is considered a top threat by the obam

obama administration officials have warned that a failure to return one of america's most-wanted will have consequences. >> we expect the russians to examine the options available to them, to expel mr. snowden for his return to the united states. >> reporter: snowden is trying to make his way from russia to cuba and then to ecuador for political asylum. he's getting help from the anti-secrecy group wikileaks, which calls the u.s. an international bully. the group's founder, julian assange, told reporters by phone that snowden is healthy, safe and in good hands. >> edward snowden is not a traitor. he's not a spy. >> reporter: u.s. officials are increasingly concerned snowden could deal a devastating blow to national security, calling him a walking treasure trove of information, a dream to foreign intelligence services. >> i had access to, you know, the full rosters of everyone working at the nsa, the entire intelligence community, and undercover assets all around the world. >> reporter: this morning, russia's foreign minister lashed out at the u.s., saying it had nothing to do with sno

one obama administration official says if hong kong doesn't act fast to extradite snowden it could harm the u.s. relationship with that region. snowden has the said he will fight extradition. lester. >> kristen welker, tonight, thank you. >> now to a horrific accident witnessed by hundreds at an air show in dayton, ohio today. what had been a thrilling performance by a veteran pilot and his experienced female wing walker turned to tragedy when the plane suddenly went out of control. nbc's michelle franzen has the story for us tonight. >> keep an eye on jane -- >> reporter: the horrifying moment as hundreds watch a plane carrying a wing walker at the -- dayton air show crash to the ground without warning. photos and videos show the plane coming in low before going upside down with wicker sitting on the wing of the plane. then the plane makes a sudden twist, wicker and her pilot charlie schwenker died. >> it is my understand ing there was nothing they could do for the victims of the crash. >> reporter: a statement on the facebook page reads -- it is with sad hearts that we announce that j

to declassify certain fi's a court opinions but it shouldn't be this difficult senior obama administration officials have promised to make the legal opinions available in two thousand and eleven the former assistant attorney general of the united states lisa monaco promised members of the senate intelligence committee that she would quote work to ensure that the department continues to work to make this important body of law as accessible as possible but so far nothing so now that a series of bombshell leaks have revealed the inner workings of the n.s.a. there's a renewed call for more oversight but the best of the white house and congress can offer is a secret court with secret legal proceedings that issue secret warrants and right secret legal opinions so that sound like oversight to you in washington same sex are to. it's a six day in the trial whistleblower and for me armor until officer first class private bradley manning which continues today the court is considering whether manning's first charge the release of that of a video of a deadly attack in afghanistan could be challenged because of t

they seem to be ignoring the consequences of the revelations where they believe that top obama administration officials are routinely lying to congress about which. really going on at the n.s.a. this was director of national intelligence james clapper testifying in the senate back in march could give me a yes or no answer to the question does the n.s.a. collect any type of data at all i'm illions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir. it does not. not wittingly and then snowden's leaks broke showing that the n.s.a. was indeed collecting data on millions of americans using verizon networks and that a top secret program known as prism has the n.s.a. plugged right into the servers of leading internet providers capable of siphoning off information about what individuals including americans are doing online snowden's latest leak is about n.s.a. tool known as a boundless informant which records in analyzes all the locations around the planet where the n.s.a. is gathering data and just how much data they're collecting it revealed that just in march of this year the n.s.a. collected ninety seven billion

. >> reporter: obama administration officials insist tonight that they were in the process of routinely providing additional information to hong kong authorities when snowden fled. sources say extradition negotiations typically take months and they point out that the statement by the hong kong government talked about the u.s. hacking its computer systems, suggesting officials there were angry. factoring in other issues, not just the request to extradite. if snowden goes to ecuador, the u.s. does have an extradition treaty, but ecuador has a sometimes prickly relationship with the u.s. it is in ecuador's london embassy that wikileaks founder julian assange has taken refuge. tonight, the u.s. is warning nations in the western hemisphere, including ecuador, that snowden is being sought on felony charges and should not be allowed to travel through their countries unless it is to get him back to the u.s. david? >> of course, the big question, will that warning work? pierre thomas, thanks to you tonight. our coverage of edward snowden, on the run, we'll be on this overnight. much more first t

saw his prioritising there will cressy and i give him marks for that now some of the obama administration officials say that this trip is really it designed to establish a new paradigm and u.s. africa policy they want to move away from that donor recipient kind of relationship and more toward a more equal men mutually beneficial trade and development type of partnership so first of all are africans ready for that and do they want it i think i think they do wanted but you know is should be either or ok i mean all kinds of countries in areas of the world. more stronger reach of africa to get aid so you know frequently people's will see trade not aid i actually don't buy the slogan i think we should be there are some through syria which you need there are other things which you need treat of course treat has to be to be number one and definitely africans are very interpret mirror and they will very much like to improve relations with the united states and finally at one president obama and others have been talking about balancing out this relationship and moving forward with relations we are also seei

hong kong now both bush administration ant obama administration officials i are been saying that those phone and internet surveillance programs are essential to essenl american security. again we will learn more about b that today in this meeting ong capitol hill.tol that's the latest here, sarahh and wisdom.wisdom. >> lauren demarco reportingo reg from capitol hill, thanks, lauren. >>> a sexual assault case involving three players, the ak demiannounced that michael miller has decided to send thene article to 32 proceedings, that's a equivalent of a preliminary hearing. a midshipman has claimed that he attacked her at a house last year.ar it has drawn recent attention at congress, the pentagon and the white house. >>> meanwhile the pentagon has released its decision to expand women's iman combat roles. women must meet the same sa physical stades to account fort the roles. nearly 300,000 women have been0v sent to serve in iraq and gons.o >>> the hunt is on for a man man accused of exposing him self to a women inside of a target targt store. he went into the fitting room of the target at

a senior obama administration official said they will discuss north korea's proposal with south koreaan upcoming meeting. it's been two weeks since we've learned about the government's data mining and surveilance program. now the national security agency is defending its data collection in a document released to congress. cristina mutchler breaks down the governments explanation of how the surveilance program is being used. now privacy concerns are making their way to other technological devices. like google glasses! as the new tech glasses starts making its way into the hands of a first wave of users, there are some questions about what exactly the glasses are capturing. it's seen as the next tech frontier. technology you actually wear -- rather than just carry around. >> "i think we've moved from desktop to mobile to tablet, and now we're just going to be wearing our computers." google glass developers like washington's silica labs see a potential for apps in health care and law enforcement. personal fitness -- another category. but in addition to creating buzz -- wearable tech is a

plus,r obama administration officials are using secret dissenters and send them to fema camps. stick ound to find out. and dominoes experiments with using dones to deliver pizza. i'mre the delivery guy in my neighborhood qualifies. >> thanks, andy. >> youha. >> great work. >> thanks. >> see you later. let's welcome our guest. she is so british she sleeps in amney. i am here with imogen lloyd webber. her latest book is called "the twitter diaries" and if hilarty wasike chocole he's would come in aeart and my resolsigh sidekick bill schulz. and sitting next to memmy mcguinness. that is gavin's d. his son is a writer, qu accomplished. >> a block, the lede. that'the first s. hey, greg, i'm back i'm sure i didn't miss anything good. >> thank you for that. can a cup of joe bring you whoa? caine withdrawal has been added to the latesmanual of mental disorders ading to the american psychiatric association having too much starbuckan lead to a condition known as caffeine intoxication with symptoms like restlessness nervousness and then there is t come down. fatigue, headache, difficulty

scholar of ethical behavior for three years in a row and he communicated with senior obama administration officials and the ceo's of environmental organizations. sadly for him he didn't exist. it turns out richard wind cor was a made up name. -- windsor was a made up name when she was administrator of the epa. not sure what that stands for. she created the secondary account because her normal address was publicly available. it is something the epa says is commonly done for internal communication. this doesn't explain where he got his ethical behavior and other certifications or why jackson used the account to communicate with environmental ago tau -- activists or why they were never from jackson. a senate committee is investigating more. for more let's go live to this dog. >> it is monday. they can't all be winners. tom, i'm sure you use fake names going across country trying to check out of the holiday inn express. >> i am windsor on many chat rooms. secondly, looking at this woman, and i hate this stereo type, but is it shocking she wanted to be a dude? >> you are an awful person. >> thank you, b

. >>> in the days after september 11, 2012, obama administration officials would claim that benghazi a spontaneous attack many carried out by a mob, outraged over a youtube video. as are you about to see, nobody, but nobody, in libya, was thinking that on this fateful day. september 11, 2012. 6:43 a.m. deputy ghazi. a libyan police officer is caught photographing the inside of the american mission. a libyt be casing the place rattles information management officer sean smith. around noontime, he messages a friend on the internet. "assuming we don't die tonight, we saw one of our police that guard the compound taking pictures." 12:11 p.m., cairo. u.s. embassy staffers release a statement about nikoula's video. "we firmly reject those actions that use the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others. the cairo embassy surrounded by protesters, voicing a variety of grievances. >> the video was a part of a much larger demonstration that featured open brandishing of the al qaeda flag, chances of obama, obama. >> reporter: 6:45 p.m. the owe egyptian crowd storms t

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as for the obama administration, officials here not denying or confirming this order. but a senior administration official in a statement to cnn said in part "information of the sort described in the guardian article has been a critical tool in protecting the u.s. from terrorists threats to the united states." saying this is counterterrorism personnel could use or track to connect dots between a suspected terrorist and someone else who might be here in the united states. officials, again, stressing that what we're talking about here is metadata such as time or location of call, but we're not talking about listening in to conversations that people might be having. >> and, dan, we exclusively heard from diane feinstein and she seems to be defending this although there are a number of democrats and other organizations who think this has definitely crossed the line from what the bush administration used to do. >> that's right. when you look back at what the bush administration did, yes, it was the same kind of activity that was more or less targeting phones overseas. so may

obama administration's request to bring snowden back to the u.s.? >> rick, the u.s. made the request and one senior obama administration official says if hong kong doesn't act soon, it will, quote, complicate our bilateral relations. the two countries have an extradition treaty. a security advisor told cbs, quote, hong kong has been a historically good partner of the united states in law enforcement matters. and we expect them to comply with the treaty in this case. edward snowden had been staying in a hong kong hotel, but checked out june 10. it's assumed he's still in hong kong, but it's not clear. >> rick: if china wants to put up a fight or make it difficult for the u.s. to get snowden back here, is there any way for them to do that? >> yes. hong kong is largely in many ways controlled by china and one hong kong law maker says china may step in and make sure snowden is not extradited so that chinese intelligence can get ahold of any u.s. secrets and paperwork that snowden has with him. here is what one east asia analyst said about that. >> china gets all the information that snowden has one way or another. it may take longe

that syria has used chemical weapons multiple times crossing the red line set by the obama administration. officialssiran gas was used. >> cenk: that conflict has killed over 90,000, best estimates 93,000 so far. let me quote the original story: story:they were not saying high confidence but varying degrees of confidence. does that mean we have to take action? panel? ana, john, jayar, go! >> i've been analyzing some of the previous statements that obama made, we referred to it as a red line, and obviously he has implied there will be a big change in our policies. but he has left himself more than an enough wiggle room to back off. he seemed to be against nsa surveillance at one point. i think he is not a man who is afraid of stepping back of what seemed like a promise in the past. >> cenk: did i say red? i meant like mauve. >> even in that statement about it there was in small scale. there are more ways he can use it. i meant if he used it on everyone was. they're killing a few people, that's messed up, we're mad about it, but we threatened you before. let's not do it again. >> cenk: let me throw a

plus,r obama administration officials are using secret dissenters and send them to fema camps. ound to find out. and dominoes experiments with using dones to deliver pizza. i'mre the delivery guy in my neighborhood qualifies. >> thanks, andy. >> youha. >> great work. >> thanks. >> see you later. let's welcome our guest. she is so

. >> it is a huge threat and before these revelations on surveillance, obama administration officials in the last week or two have been insisting that the president would really push the new chinese president on this issue. it doesn't just affect the pentagon and other agencies with real secrets. this is huge for american businesses who feel they are under assault from china, but elsewhere as well, but particularly china trying to steel intellectual properties that can give them a leg up on the glow glow balance stage, the global economy. the president said he thinks these issues are separate and that's an issue of china stealing intellectual property whereas the surveillancish knew america is about keeping americans safe. you are right. americans are aware of this now. a heightened awareness and it is raising a lot of questions. >> questions and we will check back with you. great to see you, ed. >> great to see you. >> kelly? >>> fox news alert out of southern california right now where we are expecting to find out details about a man who shot and killed four people before police too

obama administration officials say the u.s. military aid to syria's rebels but the white house chief of staff is warning that there will be no rush to war in syria. >>> also happening monday -- hearings for the alleged 911 plotters at guantanamo bay mnavl base. khalid shaikh mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators are facing charges. >>> hip-hop superstar kanye west is not only a brand-new dad, he also has a brand-new album dropping. it comes out on tuesday. album's title is a play on words combining his nickname of yeze with jesus. >>> wednesday we'll watch federal reserve for news on whether it will raise interest rates. >>> on friday it is the world's ugliest dog contest in petaluma, california. top dog wins a $1,500 prize, a trophy and a catered dinner. we'll look forward to the results on that. i'm fredricka whitfield. that's going to do it for me. my colleague don lemon straight ahead with the newsroom. >>> there are no ugly dogs, by the way. only cute dogs. >> all dogs are beautiful. >> that's right. >> thank you. >>>

the politico has an article quoting an obama administration official saying that would we have made the determination that he would have crossed the red line? yes, probably, says the information source in politico. so was the fact here the sarin gas or the fact that the rebels were losing ground on the ground? >> well, it is more than coincidental that those two events coincided like the french and others had already concluded that he is using this sarin gas in small quantities, but, again, here's this is the red line, and we have alleged that killed between 100 and 150 people, and 93,000 have been massacred as we have stood by and watched and the casualty numbers continue to go up. it is disgraceful. >> you say it is more than coincidental that we are declaring the use of chemical weapons at the time that we are deciding to arm the rebels and are you suggesting that domestic politics are at play? >> no, but beginning to realize in the white house that their predictions that assad would fall, their present statement that assad must go, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and t

at the same time, an obama administration official did not confirm a report in the british newspaper, guardian, that the national security agency has been collecting the records of millions of verizon customers, under a top secret court order regardless of whether they were suspected of doing anything wrong or not. the order started in april and ends in mid-july. verizon has about 121 million customers. most of them wireless users. the order covers the numbers dialed by all customers, location, duration, and frequency but not the contents of the call. the order relies on the business records provision under the patriot act. the broad nature of the records being handed over is rather unusual. verizon is the second biggest phone company behind at&t, at least in terms of revenue. what does this mean for at&t customers. our own scott mcgrew picks up our coverage there. >>> you hinted that at&t are most likely involved as well. the guardian newspaper found and published that court order that allows the government to track verizon phones but, as you point out, the same order must cover at&t

obama administration officials say the u.s. military aid to syria's rebels but the white house chief of staff is warning that there will be no rush to war in syria. >>> also happening monday -- hearings for the alleged 911 plotters at guantanamo bay mnavl base. khalid shaikh mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators are facing charges. >>> hip-hop superstar kanye west is not only a brand-new dad, he also has a brand-new album dropping. it comes out on tuesday. album's title is a play on words combining his nickname of yeze with jesus. >>> wednesday we'll watch federal reserve for news on whether it will raise interest rates. >>> on friday it is the world's ugliest dog contest in

>> he says that the decision to be -- the obama administration's decision, or the as a result of the obama administration officials being the most aggressive in investigating leaks is not the result of some policy decision. he says the justice department gets lots of requests to do these leak investigations from intelligence agencies. actually does very few, but these, he says, were the results of demands from intelligence agencies and congress urging to be more aggressive on cracking down on leaks. >> now to kelly. darre gop leaders are telling issa to tone down the rhetoric after he called jay carney a paid liar. i want to you to listen to this. >> the administration is -- their paid liar, their spokesperson, picture behind, he's still making up things about what happens in calling this local rogue. it's because this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters, and we're getting to proving it. >> kelly, what are you hearing? are republicans afraid that issa might jeopardize the biggest gift handed to them in months? basically, okay, you've said enough. congressman iss

. >> our obama administration officials lying to congress? thanks for joining me. let's talk to dni clapper's statement. was he truthful or not? >> i think what he's trying to tell us is that we don't monitor your phone calls or the content of your e-mail or conversations. there is no right of privacy regarding your phone number. that's the best i can give you. >> the specific question that senator widen asked, does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. he said no sir. senator widen said it does not. there are cases where they could have inadvertently collect ed. >> we do collect phone numbers. >> that was untruthful? >> i don't believe what they're telling us about benghazi. the irs makes no sense to me. this administration has a problem, people don't trust them. when it comes to this program, i support it i think it helps us disrupt terrorist plots in the makes. >> that's a different question. >> was he truthful? >> you have to call him back and ask him. we do collect data not the content. the only way you can g

. >>> it's not going to be pretty, an obama administration official admitting the launch of obama carel definitely not go like clockwork. >> yes, this is happening. people will get enrolled in coverage, they will have health coverage in january. will it be as wonderful on the first day as it is on the 30th day or the 60th day or the 90th day or year five? maybe not. i certainly wouldn't claim that we're not going to have any problems at all. and everything's going to work perfectly. i would like for that to happen. it would be a surprise p that were to happen. >> well, you know that's not good, when even obama care officials are not expecting all to go well. senator johnstone joins us. he said he would be surprised if it starts perfectly. i guess we would all agree on that. anything would be a surprise. >> i wasn't inspired by those comments, really. >> neither was i, i was trying to make it sound good. >> you interviewed the last couple interviews you had on the show, talking about the irs, the irs had a big role in the implementation of obama care. which ought to bring great concern

a senior obama administration official called putin's, comments, potentially positive.ant to ask you, some may say positive is too strong a word when putin has thus far, not handed him over. >> kind of seeing this as a layover in the diplomatic p iic crisis. putin would look to see it go away. as your reporter noted. it is'clear there is a play for the u.s. here to convince russia to do anything otherwise. and the russians themselves are eager to let him move on. even if it is, on some level, enjoyable to watch this kind of cat-and-mouse game play out. >> so, is putin just trying to make president obama sweat here. is there any chance that he will hand snowden over? >> i lost your audio there a little bit. >> is there any chance that putin at this point would hand snowden over. is the whole point put spin trying to make an international public incident of "hey, i know you want something, president obama, and guess what? i am not giving it to you." >> there is no real reason for putin to do anything other than what he said he is going to do. there is nothing really in re

that he would have questioned the -- and investigate senior treasury department and any obama administration official if he thought they were involved. he testified under oath that there were not involved. i would like to submit the discussion between ms. jenkins and the treasury inspector into the record. it was the same inspector general that notify republicans including republicansdarrell mustin the summer of 2012, be for the 2012 national elections. i would like to submit the treasury inspector general's letter to him and the rsc chair confirming this investigation into the irish dated july 11, 2012. without objection. >> if there was political targeting during an election year that members of congress like chairman issa have sat quietly and not brought this to the public attention? i think the chairman speaks for itself. he did nothing and said nothing because there was no whistle to blow. the second chapter in less than a decade that the irs has been caught going robe. the when wrote in 2002, 2004 when they inappropriately targeted churches and the naacp. mr. chairman, i think the record speaks

i shouldn't say this -- as glen writes, in an irony now being savored by his critics, obama administration officialsrepublicans to defend him against charges from the liberals and libertarian right he's recklessly prioritized national security over personal lent. >> the argument that neoconservatives make and foreign policy and national security hawks make, they all say this is all terrible, they all sound like senator obama until they become president. then they realize it is a scary world out there. i think the both that the democratic senate and republican house reauthorized this is very important. this is splitting -- not splitting along ideological lines. are you seeing the libertarian coalition and also the hawk coalition. there is a sort of able defining gap there as well. are you seeing older senator, older congress members saying we need more security, we need to keep the nation safe. are you seeing younger, more lifl liberties minded people saying no, that's not a good idea. i don't think there is much after difference in what you are seeing in the arguments now between here around the bus

i can't say who it was, but it was a senior obama administration official. when president obama was told this kid was killed, that he was extremely upset, and that he was told, president was told by the cia and joint ordinary reason and operationed command that this guy mentioned before was alone and that was the target, but what was more interesting is john brennan, now the cia director, at the time was the senior adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism, that brennan believed it was an intentional hit, that either jsoc or cia intentionally killed the kid, perhaps based on false intelligence, and could not be a coincidence you killed the father, two weeks later, kill the son. there was an ordered review. what happened? he says, i don't know, i never saw it. i called the white house and national security coup sill and they would not comment o me on it or confirm or deny there was a review done, and if there was, they would not share what the findings were. the official assured me, no, no, no, but listen, this is a misunderstanding oom. it was a mist

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program called prism was established back in 2007 by the bush administration and continues today under president obama. a senior administration officialells abc news the program is meant to track suspected foreign terrorists outside the u.s., not americans. but a whistle-blower revealed the program to "the post." the paper says because he believed it was a massive violation of privacy saying "they quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type". >> this guy feels very strongly that the powers of the surveillance state have grown too great, that the boundaries are almost nonexistent. >> reporter: it comes after "the guardian" newspaper reported on a separate nsa program which compiles phone records of millions of americans. >> this type of surveillance suggests that those rules of the road, so to speak, set down in the constitution respect necessarily being honored. >> reporter: the nsa is spending $1.5 billion to construct this 1 million square-foot-data collection facility in utah. some in congress including some top republicans say surveillance has been critical to protecting the country from terrorists. >> within the last fe

needed to comply with this secret surveillance operation under the obama administration now we should also mention that senior officials for the obama administration only made their admission after the guardian newspaper published the story and the classified order on its website that court order is marked top secret and it is due to expire on july nineteenth a less it's renewed but we are now finding out that apparently this top secret court order has been pushed up. on verizon dating back to two thousand and six the chair when chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee has said that this there's been a three month renewal that's been ongoing and according to reports it's been ongoing for many many years and it started under the bush administration so this appears to be something that is being carried over from bush to obama approved by obama we should also mention that if we never found out about this top secret surveillance about verizon being forced to hand over it all their their records on their on their customers calls the the obama administration was ready to declassify this court order in april of twenty

they continue to make these reckless allegations that obama official, administration officials were somehowhe irs scandal. they haven't produced any evidence of that. in fact, the i.g. said exactly the opposite. they're losing credibility. they've continued to say in the "ap" and rosen case that the justice department did not follow rules when in fact they follow lowed the rules the republicans voted for and holder testified exactly accurately with respect to this question about whether rosen was going to be prosecuted or not. and, you know, at a certain point, i've made this point before, that darrell issa starts to sound a lot more like inspector pluso than he does sam irvin. at a certain point, they begin to make such outrageous statements that they can never back up with facts that the press -- the press loved this story for the first couple months. >> sure. >> but unless -- and lynn knows this from covering scandals in the 1990s and 2000 during the bush administration. unless there's some there, there, then there's no place for the media to go other than to say to the republicans you m