in san francisco, raney wrightman a group that defends privacy rights. she is chief operating officer of the freedom of the press foundathes. here in washington, ben chan at the national security council under presidents bush and obama. it's a 7 ario vice president of communications at the albright stonebridge group in binchang. thef president laid out his philosophy of surveillance and drilled down into the specific proposals but it was a straddle all the way. did he get the balance right? >> i think one of the things he attempted to do was, in a word, borrowed from another policy on rebalance about documents. national security in this country. what i was hoping for was a glimmer of educator in chief. it was a chance to talk about why these programs exist, how they evolved within a certain window and why they are necessary for our national security moving forward and to leve that both individually as president and in bavp with various parties including congress and the business and tech community. >> raney wrightman, did he get it right? >> so i, you kn