obviously companies studying up wiretaps on their service it is scary from a privacy perspective i don't want anyone seeing what i text to my friend when i drop seven letter words out of them and words with friends but more than that these wire taps could also be susceptible to a text from hackers who just want to use the wiretaps to try on people or gain sensitive information like your credit card number. as one senior councilman from the center for democracy in technology put it they might as well call the proposal the cyber insecurity an anti employment act as it would drive innovators overseas personally i have another name they can call this gary proposal business as usual in washington tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the residence. all right and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash our to america check out our web site of science are to dot com slash usa and follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez. world's leading. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've gon

is walls around the globe and it's thursday which means it's time for the weekly report from wiretapping data it's the elusive quantum internet coming up an expanded look on how the government and private companies companies are getting caught up in the web. and since the days of nine eleven the way that the u.s. has revolutionized its ways it's a ways of fighting war are unprecedented instead of overt operations with tens of thousands of boots on the ground targeted killings and kill squads are the name of the game look into the metamorphosis of war with the author who explores the topic in his new book. it's thursday may ninth five pm in washington d.c. hi megan lopez and you are our watching. starting off this hour tens of thousands of student activists flooded the streets of chile yesterday to protest the education system between thirty seven and eighty thousand students gathered inside tiago paseo concepcion tell lupo involved to demand more affordable higher education just recently the chilean government changed the criteria for students to receive federal financial aid the minimum

warrantless wiretapping policy so what can we expect from an f.b.i. with comey at its helm artie's liz wall looks into it. it looks like president obama will nominate james comey to lead the f.b.i. has a resume that has garnered both praise and controversy between two thousand and three and two thousand and five komi you served as deputy attorney general in the bush administration in two thousand and four comey took over for his boss attorney general john ashcroft when he became sick despite pressure from the bush administration comey refused to reauthorize the n.s.a.'s warrantless wiretapping program at a senate hearing in two thousand and seven komi described how senior administration officials came to ashcroft's hospital bed to try to get his approval for the spying program as he laid back down he said but that doesn't matter because i'm not the attorney general there is the attorney general and he pointed to me and i was just to his left the two men did not acknowledge me they turned and walked from the room he goes on to describe standing up to h

you have wiretapping? >> i do. >> easier for the feds to wiretap us. they can can go into our e-mails and instant messages. >> instant messages? >> you should see the snap chats willie sends me. good lord. >> as long as you stay away from the snap chats. >> willie, you need to stop. my daughter saw one of those. >> they disappear. >> poof shroom. >> but not before i'm disturbed. >> why would they create a technology like that, willie? we will talk about that later too. vladimir putin, did you see how rude he was to john kerry? >> we will get to that. we had a great time in philadelphia last night. we thank the folks there to the philadelphia free library. >> newfound woman for three young woman who were held captainive and kidnapped in a cleveland home. the three vanished between august of 2002 and april of 2004 in separate incidents. they were between 14 and 20 years old. on monday, after years of being locked away from family and friends, berry broke free and held by a neighbor who heard her cries and kicked open the front door to her. investigators

. >>> the bush era republican who decried wiretapping and other contentious tactics may be on his way to the fbi's top spot. sources tell nbc news president obama plans to nominate james comey as the next fbi director. comey will take over after current director of 12 years robert mueller steps down in september. comey's potential nomination comes at a time that the white house is facing a trio of controversies. but comey is no stranger to controversy himself. in 2006 comey said some interrogation practices were wrong and would damage the justice department's reputation. >>> there is a new quinnipiac survey showing the president's approval rating has flipped in just a span of one month. 45% of americans approve of his job handling while 49% do not. that approval rating is down three points from may 1st. meanwhile, the administration's recent controversies are also starting to gain some traction with americans. 76% now say they want a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the irs. it's all having an effect on mr. obama's trustworthiness as well. that number's seen a drop of nearl

he refused for a time to reauthorize bush wiretapping. in 2006 comey said some interrogation practices were wrong and would damage the justice department's reputation. >>> turning now to mexico where an american mother of seven is sitting behind bars accused of trying to smuggle drugs into the u.s. mexican authorities say they found about 12 pounds of marijuana under 42-year-old yanira maldonado's bus seat last week. the devout mormon an her husband were in northern mexico for a relative's funeral when they decided to travel back to arizona by bus. she says she's innocent and family members say they believe that she was framed. her attorney says he's confident that she will be released by friday. >> and now it's time for your first look at this morning's dish of scrambled politics. the republican who doesn't trust republicans was certainly surrounded by an awful lot of them last night. texas senator ted cruz spoke at a gop fund-raiser in new york where he told the crowd not to worry about the party's future, instead he brought back a haun

like that what they're doing now is they're saying we want to use that same legal system and get wiretap orders and people we are investigating in a criminal activity where the judge has authorized us to do so so if you're not doing anything wrong it really you will have no impact you won't see any impact if you are on the other hand trying to hide what you're doing and having real time communications and you're talking about blowing up a building or doing some terrorist activity then obviously you may be subject to an investigation if there is this technology built and instituted after a wiretap order comes in then you could be monitored every stroke every conversation you having whatever the case may be it is possible that's the direction this is headed by him what guarantees are there that this back door wouldn't be abused or what have judicial oversight when the f.b.i. need to in order to access this customer information great great question i think the reality is there's two sides to relieve very good balancing or protective measures that are in place one is that the government has

by the way, as a result of the nixon wiretaps, called the cob and kissinger wiretaps.congress and president ford and president carter signed bills, which gave us more privacy. it's a pastry bag that undermines some of the privacy that was a post-watergate phenomenon. for a lot of people, but said we were going back to that. we really didn't like before watergate, when presidents could do this willy-nilly. >> one of the things i was trying to do in this book was to not focus on watergate. that territory is owned by so many reporters. i bet there's so many other interesting things to look at. >> and he proved that. >> i do get into watergate, but there is no point and kick in at around one more time. >> one thing that's interesting is this face the same man? and here's the problem, which is that we have almost everything this man did when he was in the white house from 1971, february february 71 to july of 73. imagine your life under that kind of microscope. or something like that for him as vice president. the only bits and pieces of his diary with those which appeared

million dollars again for passing on classified information that evidence comes from purported wiretapped phone conversations between him and the security officer he was trying to recruit the recordings were made public by russia's federal security. your door of the store subordinate to the new boss morton is after the process the talk of the warden you know what the store clerk yes because of the mortgages on the bottom of the web of a million dollars of course you want us to use it or someone will buy these out on a search us up search or. damaged agent has been handed over to american authorities anderson are waiting to go to the u.s. washington has issued no official reply so far the u.s. media has reaction to the new spy scandal was a mixture of laughter and does believe as the alleged agents clumsy recruiting techniques so ridicule is a common reaction to stories like this but previous cases show it doesn't make them less true and a british intelligence analyst glenmore tree near harvey says it's just a point scored in the everlasting russian american spy game. it is a great success

its surveillance operation on the associated press news agency attorney general eric holder says wiretapping the phones of one hundred journalists was necessary to protect americans from leaks could endanger the safety of norman solomon from the fed media watch group he thinks it's aimed at making an example of a.p. in order to scare off any would be whistleblowers that is really one of the last refuge of scoundrels when it comes to top leaders who want to turn off the tap of information reaching their own public that those leaders would rather the public be kept in the dark about and i think what we've seen with these revelations about the phone records of a.p. reporters is that this is an ministration which has already weighs data larger war against more whistleblowers than any other in u.s. history has continued to push the envoy and tried to have a chilling effect on not only journalists but the sources within the administration and to new orleans not to open up the world update is where u.s. police are both rested the nineteen year old suspect they've been hunting in connection with the

million dollars a year for passing on classified information and that evidence comes from purported wiretaps phone conversations between him and the security officer he was trying to recruit and the recordings were made public by russia's federal security service you're going to start subordinate to so many of us more than a process if you talk a subordinate you want to store it back yes because of more just about to read through whatever million dollars of course you want to. get some. ideas that. legend has been handed over to american authorities and is now waiting to go to the us other washington at this point has issued no official reply so far the us media has reaction to the new spy scandal a mixture of laughter and disbelief for the alleged agent's clumsy recruiting techniques now ridicule is a common reaction to stories like this but previous cases show it doesn't make them less true british intelligence analysts glenmore trinny a hobby he says is just another point being scored in the everlasting russian american spy game. it is a great success for the f.s.b. the russian domestic s

eric holder says wiretapping the phones of one hundred journalists was a necessary to protect americans from the leaks that could endanger the safety norman solomon from the fair media watch group thinks it's aimed at making an example of a.p. to scare off any whistleblower. that is really one of the last refuge of scoundrels when it comes to top leaders who want to turn off the tap of information reaching their own public that those leaders would rather the public be kept in the dark of doubt and i think what we've seen with these revelations about the phone records of a.p. reporters is that this isn't ministration which has already weighs data larger war against more whistleblowers than any other in u.s. history has continued to push the up and tried to have a chilling effect on not only journalists but the sources within the administration . well before we get into our program problem interest let's jump into the world update quickly syria first by pro assad refugees looting women and children came under fire from rebels as they were time in the southeast town of yet to move governme

by the way, as a result of the nixon wiretaps, called the cob and kissinger wiretaps.congress and president ford and president carter signed bills, which gave us more privacy. it's a pastry bag that undermines some of the privacy that was a post-watergate phenomenon. for a lot of people, but said we were going back to that. we really didn't like before watergate, when presidents could do this willy-nilly. >> one of the things i was trying to do in this book was to not focus on watergate. that territory is owned by so many reporters. i bet there's so many other interesting things to look at. >> and he proved that. >> i do get into watergate, but there is no point and kick in at around one more time. >> one thing that's interesting is this face the same man? and here's the problem, which is that we have almost everything this man did when he was in the white house from 1971, february february 71 to july of 73. imagine your life under that kind of microscope. or something like that for him as vice president. the only bits and pieces of his diary with those which appeared

very real concern to everyone i can't help but wonder why is it that the media only cares about wiretapping fine and violations of the fourth amendment when they're subjected to it where was a p and have her media organization for that matter when the patriot act got passed and then renewed or about. because you see there's one very important point to being completely omitted from this discussion all of this is been happening since nine eleven the patriot act alone shredded the fourth amendment so i'm confused why everyone is so shocked about this just check out president bush's attorney general alberto gonzales you know the guy who codified torture talking about committing the exact same type of activity. there was and there was at least one occasion in which we were engaged in a very serious leaking of the leak investigation and we had to make some very difficult choices about whether or not to me so we're going after the reporters in order to try to find out who the source where the source of the leak is and sometimes you know that if we find that a part of the time to sell the situation

citizens and wiretaps the a math acts as a shield giving some of our government's actions protective status which means you may not even know about them now whether or not the existing version of the a math is still suited to the nature of the threats we face isn't clear what is clear though we'll be hearing a lot more about this in washington. margaret how r.t. and while we are on the topic of the ala math and president obama's national security speech one topic that dominated that discussion was the use of drones against america's enemies he described these attacks as a difficult decision but ultimately a necessary evil in the context of war for me and those in my chain of command those deaths will haunt us as long as we live just as we are haunted by the civilian casualties that have occurred throughout conventional fighting in afghanistan and iraq but as commander in chief i must weigh these heartbreaking tragedies against the alternatives to do nothing in the face of terrorist networks. would invite for more civilian casualties well today the u.s. launched its first drone strike

reporter: comey did stay after president bush relented and the justice department placed limits on the wiretap program. comey also prosecuted martha stewart and oversaw the prosecution and conviction of top white house official scooter libby in the leaking of c.i.a. agent valerie plame's identity. a white house wants comey confirmed before current f.b.i. director robert mueller steps down in early september. top senate republicans tell us he should have little trouble and former attorney general ashcroft offered this about comey: "he has a backbone that would make steel jealous." >> dubois: major, thank you. it has been a deadly 24 hours on the streets of chicago, a city plagued by gang violence. a teenager was shot to death this afternoon and four other people-- including a 56-year-old woman-- have been gunned down since yesterday. street violence is among the many concerns chicago parents have as their children are forced to move to new schools. dean reynolds reports it's part of one of the biggest mass closings of public schools in american history. >> reporter: at the courtenay elementary

that wasn't enough, the attorney general spent much of the afternoon being grilled under oath over wiretaps. three scandals with one president under fire for all of it. we have fox team coverage tonight. james rosen with the breaking details on the benghazi document dump. we're going through it all. katherine harridge with eric tolder over first amendment abuses. and mike emanuel on the call for heads to roll at the irs. let's begin there as we await the president's remarks. >> on performance-enhancing the inspector general's report on activities at the irs, house speaker john boehner is convinced this is criminal. >> the irs has admitted to targeting conservatives, even if the white house continues to be stuck on the word "if." now, my question isn't about who's going to resign. my question is, who's going to jail over this scandal? >> the inspector general blasted the irs for ineffective management, delaying the status of conservative groups seeking tax exempt status, and asking unnecessary questions, including the names of donors. the top democrat on the house ways and means committee, w

the national security of the united states and ongoing investigation and they wiretapped informationhing wrong with it. if the a.p. can't take it -- >> why not the appropriate way. they seized the material. >> they got subpoenas from fisa court. >> dana: i don't know all the details but i would assume the justice department got the fisa court to agree. we don't know enough yet, they are going to have at least in the letter they sent to explain themselves a little bit more. trust us is not going to be enough. >> andrea: what do you think, greg? >> greg: when you do have a very liberal media and very liberal administration, it's like a mom who keeps feeding junk food to a kid and upset that he is really fat. >> andrea: something that the democrats used to great effect, leaks against the bush administration on national security and terrorism related issues. having created a permissible culture that leaks are good and encouraged now that is coming back to bite them. >> eric: you remember the leaks surrounding the drones program. remember the leaks surrounded killing of osama bin laden. t

citizens and wiretaps. the a math acts as a shield giving some of our government's actions protective status which means you may not even know about them now whether or not the existing version of the a math is still suited to the nature of the threats we face isn't clear what is clear though we'll be hearing a lot more about this soon in washington margaret how. well wal-mart is famous for rolling back its prices to provide consumers with quality products at competitive prices but it turns out that while the company was protecting consumers pocketbooks it was not doing the same for the environment the company has pled guilty to criminal charges of dumping hazardous waste in sixteen counties across california wal-mart will now pay more than eighty one million dollars in fines for negligently disposing of waste the illegal dumping of fertilizers and other hazardous material occurred between two thousand and three and two thousand and five but it took nearly a decade twenty prosecutors as well as thirty two e

nation eric lichtblau won the pulitzer prize for national reporting exposing bush's massive illegal wiretap program when the government snail spying on him he quit the beat obama was warned dissent has won the press and public is much less likely to report any government crime. if i was one of my sources i would never talk to me again even stories that really would have been a public service obama is worse than richard nixon's there's the pentagon papers lawyer if he continues with his attack on transparency and the secret grand jury against wiki leaks he's exactly goes ahead and prosecutes doing the science he will pass next he's he's close to nixon now. the example is a good example of something that obama has done. nixon never did the british secret service hunted an emotion and her family off the ship blew the whistle on it thanks a lot for joining us what's safe havens did you look at we discussed two countries one with crowds which has very good with legal protection to this day and the other ironically nine hundred ninety s. with america because of course when they state they still h

yousupreme court said cannot prove you have been wiretapped yet.he problem is under the law they do not have to tell anyone they have been wiretapped. there may be good reasons for that but it does create a situation where affectively that type of surveillance is effectively immunized from competition a challenge. contextthe criminal that is not, in national security but an ordinary law enforcement, technological change has opened up a gap between what is happening and what we are aware of happening. every year the u.s. report put out -- every year the u.s. puts out a report on wiretaps. what kind of crimes are investigating? cost?ch does it how many convictions connecticut -- convictions come out of it? surveillance of phone transactions and records, surveillance of location using cell phones, which has apparently become a huge problem. the major phone carriers have been answering to congress, have been getting 1.3 million request of various kinds from government every year. and the part of the problem is unlike little brother we did not have any

of anwar all a walkie with a drone strike reset high alone can make that decision you know these wiretaps the i.r.s. thing it's just been one thing after another has been like an imperial presidency where the law is whatever the president decides it is that moment in time that's an excellent point colonel all right we have a limited time here i want you to talk to me about this several civil liberty isn't overstepping them you know the d.o.j. snagging you know uncovering sources possibly finding leaks that they did normally have this thing to be doing that work for the department of homeland security and the cia altogether you know. eliminating those departments and my opinion but it seems like d.o.j. here you know with all that they're doing does this smell like watergate to you in two thousand and thirteen what do you make of that it's curious like you were calling it that apartment of justice is. a misnomer because it seems like justice has been before this thing from their minds whether it was you know going after aaron swartz the way they did the imprisoning john kerry aku. it's just

you're going to hear more about it, and that is the warrantless wiretap is what we call them.as a warrant under the new administration. this is what gets to what you're talking about. the patriot act opened the door to a lot of stuff that wasn't legal before. now when they secretly take the laws of ap reporters, they can do that without any sort of official jurisdiction that would normally inform those who have those taken. david cay johnston is an award winning journalist, and ana kasparian and jayar jackson and brett erlich. as we look at this scandal though, i want you to see the distinction with the way the administration is handling it. they're handling it far different on the irs scandal. they're leaning back into the wind on this. here is the attorney general yesterday. >> this was a very serious--a very serious leak. >> yes, it's all about the leak. erica ferrari is all about the beak and so is president obama all about how serious this leak is. david, could you weigh in on this? this is an administration that is here to ferret out leaks clearly but they're really play

we are not talking wiretaps here. we are talking about records of who and what phone number called what other phone number on what date at what time and for how long. obviously what they are trying to do is who called people in the government who had knowledge of the sensitive information that was leaked, and it helps narrow their investigation. with that said, i think the impression is this is much too broad and they could have done it more narrowly. i think there is is a more fundamental po nie t here. the administration has said it conducted twice as many prosecutions as the predecessors put together. i don't know if that is accurate, but that's what they are saying. you have to ask why. do you think they care that much about national security? i think the real question is looking at who they are prosecuting and which leaks they are prosecuting. i bet they didn't prosecute the leaks in the killing of osama bin laden and on and on and on. i would like to know what kind of atmosphere of intimidation is created by the

in other words we're used to wiretapping your phones but when you're talking on your computer we can't in fact, we had a former fbi analysts named tim clemente. he was a counter terrorism agent. he said when asked well they wouldn't find the phone calls. he said no there is a way. we certainly have ways in normal security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation. that's not a conversation that is happening right now. it's a conversation that already happened. it's recorded. it's sitting somewhere and they can access it. if it's recorded for them it's also recorded for you. tim clemente also said, when aaron burnett was surprised about it no, welcome to america. all that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know iter or like it or not. so glenn you wrote about this. it seems to me there are people constantly and analysts in the media, really, they're recording our e-mails and phone calls really? >> it's interesting. there has been a lot of revelation abouts the extent of the surveillance state not nearly as much as it should be. we should know horr

the obama administration when the bush administration was invading our privacy and doing illegal wiretaps one was saying anything. there was news in the independent press but the mainstream media doesn't care about that. >> the mainstream media broke the wiretapping story. i'm not surprised. the white house press corp are expletive idiots. i write about it in my book" panic." >> mark: they're in bed with the administration whatever side of the aisle ends up in the office. >> there are talented amazing reporters in the white house like jay capper, i could go down the list. i don't want to rat them out as being friends of mine. but i'm serious. i am not surprised that this occurred. look, there was outrage but there was outrage about surveillance on the media. but this is a direct ago on the associated press the most well respected journalist institution in probably western services. gandhi has a quote about the ap. if you get to the end of there and you have ap and obama is sending his goons through the fbi. what the hell are they doing? sorry. >> you're upset. >> mark: you have deserved o

running up to this election with some parties offering cash for votes and there are offers of illegal wiretapping. with a reported seizure on saturday causing something of a scandal on hundreds of -- hundreds of thousands with a printing company connected to one of the parties. but really the problem is what the election observers have to say. the real problem is that there is very little in a way of choice, the poorest country of course in the european union. protesters came out across the country in february, protesting against high electricity prices, and thes, unemployment, government did resign. that same governing government party is at the top of the polls two parties have dominated politics here for 23 years. there will be tense coalition talks afterwards. analysts say that those talks may fail, which means the worst they could go back to the polls in just a few months' time. >> the conviction of the former guatemalan dictator is giving hope to survivors still searching for justice. as david reports for some, the conviction is just the beginning. >> it was the biggest trial in history of

bush's idea to by pass the secret court to do the warrantless wiretapping. there is no warrant. just the cops. they get to say whatever you want. you should never not get a warrant, but here it's obviously the first little nudge that maybe that leakee it just as responsible as the leaker, that's dangerous to all reporting. >> cenk: they got a warrant, but at the same time they got an warrant for an action that has never been criminal in the united states, for a journalist to get a leak. they say the act of getting the leak is criminal. which is amazing. brett, before you weigh in on this, let me give you the comment from the "washington post." he takes it further. the rosen affair is a flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by george w. bush's administration, and uses technology to silence critics in a way that richard nixon could only have dreamed of. maybe not as bad as bush but maybe knicksen. >> taking advantage of the changes affected by bush. little tiny increments that build to something that we're all afraid of. we all look for that moment where we say,

then there's the justice department wiretaps at the a.p. the attorney general recused he recused himself. he recused himself of what? i'm not sure of the timeline there. does that mean he knew that the justice department was going to tap the a.p.? one of the largest wire services in the world? did he know and say, well, there's an investigation going on so i'm going to stay out of it and left it to his deputy? i mean, we don't know what to trust but i can tell you this, according to the department of justice, their media subpoena requirement is the approval of the attorney general which is required before a government attorney can issue a subpoena to a member of the news media. that's not my words. fr t comes right from 28c 2k50s.10. 52 major media organizations have spoken out against this. this is not a liberal-conservative thing. this is a freedom of the press, this is an issue that crosses all lines. i mean, the press shield act has been introduced in the senate. it was introduced years ago, a couple of years ago, when democrats held th

they are using it as a shield and word and say we can go after this man to the point where they wiretappedhe phone records of james rosen's parents and why does eric holder still have a job? >> christen, talk about how whistle blowers need to be protected. they expose the waste and fraud and abuse and public needs to know about, right? >> what is happening in the administration, they have and we heard it over and over. i think more than all past administrations combined have proscued whistle-blowers and that's what they are trying to do the ap and spying on james rosen which was to find out the person leaking the information. they were notes in necessarily whistle-blowers. it is information that is not known to the public. it is embarrassing or they don't want people to know about it. james rosen committing a criminal act? that is a blaitant lie. so could you. they could spy on you christen. >> and tell me why the chief legal office of the united states, eric holder does not uphold the constitution, worry that. >> we have to leave it there. we'll answer that next week. one democrat using t

he says he considered resigning that position during a disagreement over a government wiretapping programory from brianna keilar. >> suzanne, james comey is currently a law pros professor at columbia university. nine years ago he was number two at the justice department when george w. bush was here in the white house. and during that time he was a major player in one of the most dramatic episodes of the bush administration. like a scene out of a hollywood thriller, a critically ill attorney general is in urgent care at a washington hospital, two of the president's top aides rush to his bedside hoping to pressure him to sign off on a secret wiretapping program the night before it's set to expire. this was real though. and what happened that night march 10, 2004, put james comey, president obama's pick for his next fbi director, in the headlines. >> i was very upset. i was angry. i thought i had just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man. >> comey was attorney general john ash kroft's deputy. and with ashcroft very sick, he was the acting attorney general. with then white

i said wiretapping, but the essentially covert grabbing of those phone records and communications fromjournalists. now guys, don't you agree with me the irs thing is beginning to drop in terms of priority but what is happening with the journals i think continues to be front and center for this administration. michael hastings? >> yes, sure, sure i mean, look, the irs they're a bunch of thieves and they should fire all of them and they should stop stealing people's money. i don't know what to say beyond that. yes, they're going to target conservative groups. they target anybody who is successful, the irs. i don't think we should be shocked that they get their hand caught in the cookie jar getting the koch money back. they don't want the really rich people to give to the political parties so the irs comes in and gives the millionaires a hard time. they give anybody a hard time, particularly if you gained any money they get on you. i say screw the irs, spit on them. going to the ap scandal. today i realized lieutenant a lot of this came together in the fact that the obama administration h

he talked about the use of the irs by other presidents, the wiretaps of martin luther king by the kennedy administration come on by the power of the fbi. hemay have done more, but did it in a situation where there were paranoia about leaks. he was also doing it in an era where the expectations of the presidency were changing. expectations changed over the years. also, using these agencies, going outside a law, having your own plumbers and all of that, it was no longer acceptable, at least as overly as he did this. that is what brought him down. i will leave to others to do the internal psychology. >> ronald reagan had the marine barracks blowup in beirut, the iran-contra, yet he survives, you saw him talking about -- tear down that wall -- which happens under george h.w. bush's presidency, he reforms the tax , and he is not snake bit. he survives. how does he do that? is it the power of his personality? was never any sense that he was as possible for the marine barracks. and he made the decision which was right at the time to pull them out and acknowledged that he had to. iran-contra, it

in a wiretapped conversation a brooklyn distributor was heard saying this business is better than selling drugs. maryland state comptroller peter fran choe. >> cigarette smuggling can produce big profits. >> they profited $55 million in illegal cigarette sells costing the state of new york $80 million in lost profit. >> it's a way in which organized crime cangeneral organized -- can can generate profits. >> i guess things they use. >> the millions of dollar s is now in the custody new york police. the investigation is ongoing. >> we are following the money and we will work to track it down wherever it went. >> reporter: the brothers will be extradited back to new york to face those charges. i'm rochelle richie. >> thank you. $2 million in crash was found cash was found at the brother's home. it was believed they deposit it ed dfsh -- dedeposit itted the rest. >>> investigators are walking the train tracks surveying the damage after two commuter trains collided in bridge port, connecticut. the national transportation safety board is collecting evidence to figure out what caused the acciden

a proposal would make it easier to wiretap suspects who communicate online as opposed to traditionalhone services. >>> finally, cellphone video from april shows a man clinging to a woman's car after she took off from the scene of a hit-and-run. she hit the gas and drove an as she climbed through the windshield. police are looking for that run-away driver. >>> we have your wednesday morning headlines. seema, good morning. >> good morning t. dow is sitting at a record high closing above the 1500 mark for the first time yesterday. the dow first closed in 2012. it took the year hit 14,000. three months ago from 14 to 15,000 t. dow has campaigned nearly 15% this year. >>> in other news, yahoo is seeking a way out of its search with microsoft. the ceo marissa miers wants to end the contract. yahoo isn't interested. their revenues have done worse under the deal it was going at alone. >>> target is test agnew program on using facebook accounts. people will be able to select discounts kwaun online but can only redome them in target stores, not on the web. paur ra. >> so you have to actually g

title ii of the wiretap act. there's a thing called title iii, it was for looking at terrorists and white collar crime. there's a process. y go before a federal judge. there is no -- >> charlie raises -- >> look at e-mails, that is a modern form of communications. >> and we do need to -- >> these companies, the phone company alway had a ton of information. now companies like google and facebook inparticular, is have more information than was ever envisioned five years ago. >> you need to update that title iii act. update the privacy laws. >> they can blackmail any citizen in this country at this point. the amazing thing is they can blackmail any scitizen by going to his google records. by finding out what porn sites -- what sites he's been . >> a lot of friends and contacts who used to e-mail me a lot, call me a lot. they're afraid to do it. actually, aum the government is going to find out is a lot of takeout orders. that's fine. have at it. >>> did any of you s this? >> all right. the supporters of immigration

to that it takes to wiretap is enormous. and this has been the southern district of new york's kind of premier effort in the business arena, if you will. and whenever -- the s.e.c. says the same thing. whenever there's criticism of the failure to prosecute people after the financial crisis the subject immediately turns "look at what we're doing on insider trading." >> rose: it has a traditional pattern doesn't it? you get somebody below to implicate somebody above them and somebody above them and as you do that you get somebody to say "i was there, i was in the room when i said this." >> classic pattern. i've never thought of it as a ladder but a concentric circle. they start with the small fish who inevitably are on the outer most circle. they flip them by threatening them with prosecution. >> rose: and they have resources that the people they most want have. >> that gives you the lower level people and then the -- inevitably you get up to people who know the person who's at the center. in this case it's steve cohen. >> ros

but wiretaps and cops and cameras, we can have all of that.end ultimately isn't the best way to dewith this wholistically, to have moderate muslims turning on their radical islamist extremist neighbors and counterparts and saying, enough of this. you don't represent islam. when they hear this kind of chatter. we know that tamerlan tsarnaev was attending a mosque. he got thrown out for saying some fairly radical things. is not it going on again on moderate islam to rid the whole of islam of extremism. >> within these communities, law enforcement, president obama, if some good come out of this it could be some heightened awareness. the cliche, if you see something, say something. maybe if you hear something, say something. the mosque that tamerlan went to in cambridge, there were two incidents where he stood up and challenged the imam and said, you're soft. you're not conservative enough for me. law enforcement officials who have studied radicalization say that is a classic pattern of a guy who could be becoming radical. he doesn't accept his mo