 are encroaching on Americans' privacy and civil liberties. I do think it's important that we get this right, and I want the American people to know that we are trying to be transparent here, protect civil liberties and privacy, and also the security of this country. Alexander said he will provide additional information to the Senate Intelligence Committee in closed session today and hopes to have as many details as possible within a week. He said he wants the information to be checked first by other agencies to ensure that the details are correct. But he also warned that disclosures about the secret programs have eroded agency capabilities. And as a result, U.S. all allies and Americans won't be as safe as they were two weeks ago. Some of these are still going to be classified, and should be, because if we tell the terrorists every way that we're going to track them, they will get through and Americans will die. He said adding that he would rather be criticized by people who think he's hiding something than jeopardize the security of this country. I got news from Mr. Alexander and everybody else who defends this stupid program. The terrorists ain't using the cell phones and the internet anymore. No, they're smart. They're passing papers around. Like we did in the Revolutionary War. They're too smart for that. Exactly. Remember the award-winning show on HBO called The Sopranos about the New Jersey mob? Remember when they had their discussions? Did you notice that? Of course not. They're not going to use phones and shit. No, they had their discussions in person, in the basement with the stereo blasting. Or in restaurants. But it was done in a way where if there was a bugging device that it would be very, very difficult for the feds to hear what they were saying or impossible, because they were smart. You know what I mean? And Al Qaeda is also very intelligent. He questioned that length by sentence. He was questioned by senators seeking information on exactly how much data the NSA collects and the legal backing for the activities. He did not give details. On the terror plots he said had been disrupted. You know why he didn't? Because none happened. That's why. It's a bunch of brute shit. Half a world away, Edward Snowden, the former contractor who fled to Hong Kong and leaked the documents, said he's not there to hide from justice and has faith in the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate. I am neither traitor nor hero. I'm an American. Snowden told the South China Morning Post. So was Snowden giving a snow job or... We were getting a snow job from the NSA before Mr. Snowden. Snowden said in the interview published on Wednesday that he hasn't dared contact his family or his girlfriend since coming forward as the leaker of NSA documents. I'm worried about the pressure they are feeling from the FBI, he said. The FBI visited his father's house in Pennsylvania on Monday. Snowden resurfaced in the Chinese newspaper after having dropped out of sight since Sunday. Snowden said he wanted to fight the United States government in Hong Kong's courts and would stay unless asked to leave. U.S. law enforcement officials have said they are building a case against Snowden but have yet to bring charges. Hong Kong has an extradition treaty with the United States. There are exceptions in cases of political persecution or where there are concerns over cruel or humiliating treatment. Snowden told the paper from a location the paper didn't disclose that he has no plans to leave. I have had many opportunities to flee Hong Kong but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law. Of course you don't have faith in the United States rule of law because it's bullshit. That's why the United States does not release many of the people who are innocent in Guantanamo. Political dissidents? They're not political dissidents. They were picked up because some person was paid $5,000 to squeal on somebody. They have no proof of anything on them. If you have no proof, you're supposed to let them go, right? Of course you are. That's why they're having, what do they call it, when you don't eat hunger strikes? They're putting them in a chair and they're force feeding them like a duck. Oh, like a four-egg? Four pate. A foie gras, a goose for foie gras. Yeah, but aren't they supposed to be closing Guantanamo? Mr. Obama said that, what, almost six years ago? Yeah, we're still... The problem is that's the problem. They can't close it because they have to let those people go. They have no proof against them. And how is that going to look after six years under Barack Obama and how many years under George? A double, you know? It wouldn't be the first time the United States government was embarrassed. No, it wouldn't. And made to be the fool. The fool or the bad guy? Right. On Tuesday. A phalanx of FBI, legal and intelligence officials briefed the entire house in an attempt to explain national security agency programs that collect millions of Americans' phone and internet records. By the way, remember I sent you the email about Dropbox? Yeah, and then I sent you Dropbox and I sent you Microsoft's version of Dropbox, which is a freeware. It's not a version. They took it over. I don't know if they bought it or what. But the point is that Dropbox and most of the other crapola things, they keep all of your stuff on their servers. It's supposed to be private. There is no privacy anymore. Dropbox? For anyone of those things. It's all here in the NSA. It's collecting it all. What happens if you go to your Dropbox, you open up your Dropbox and you delete the videos from the Dropbox? You can't delete anything unless you write it over. Nothing is ever deleted from your hard drive or wherever. Unless something writes over. Then you may delete something. That's why there's a program called Recover. Because even though you clean out your recycle bin, Recover has a way of getting in there and looking for the deleted item because it hasn't been written over yet. But Dropbox does work, by the way. Yes, it may work, but I'm saying. Let's just suppose you don't want somebody to know that you transferred a porn file. Yes. It's up there on our server. Let's say it's a personal porno flick that you made of yourself that you're sending to a chicky poof. Let's say you're an Anthony Weiner. And you're sending your Weiner to a girl that you like. So Dropbox would have a record of that indefinitely unless something writes over that. Gotcha. But in terms of legitimate files, it does enable you to email large files, video and audio, attached to your email when you want to send it to somebody. It does allow that. Because Yahoo would only allow you what is it, 20 or 25 megabytes? And no more or something of that nature. I think it's 20. Since they were revealed last week, the programs have provoked a distrust in the Obama administration from around the world. House members were told not to disclose information they heard in the briefing because it is classified. Several said they left with unanswered questions. People aren't satisfied. More detail needs to come out. While many rank-and-file members of Congress have expressed anger and bewilderment, there is apparently very little appetite among key leaders and intelligence committee chiefs to pursue any action. Most have expressed support for the programs as invaluable counter-terrorism tools and some have labeled Snowden a traitor. If you can't handle the truth and somebody hits a raw nerve, you could call them any name you want. It won't be positive. Yeah, but they don't just call names today. They kill you. Well, that's like a witch hunt. Witch hunt? Bitch hunt. They are so powerful that they kill you. And you'll never know it. You ought to see all the reporters. This, that, and the other thing supposedly died of heart attacks or committed suicide. Well, you saw that machine on Jesse Ventura's conspiracy theory that can be pointed at an individual and their heart can be imploded or exploded in their body, utilizing, I think, Tesla's technology. They do it with a needle, too, if they can tie you down, you know. A lethal injection? Looks like a heart attack. A simulated deal. Congressional leaders and Intelligence Committee members have been routinely briefed about the spy program. So another thing that's a problem with all of this stuff here is all the private contractors. Oh, God. They're making all this money. And this stuff should be part of our government only. Thank you, Mr. Cheney. Mr. Cheney. Well, Republicans want to privatize absolutely everything. Absolutely everything. Education, too. So only people... So only the rich can afford to send their kids to school. There will be propaganda, but there will not be education. Well, for the masses, they get propaganda. For the rich, they get a good education. Yeah. Because they can afford to pay the tuition. Well, and they have to rule. Yeah. You know? Like the kings of old. They had advisors. They need the masses to become drones, like androids. Worker bees. Worker bees. Thank you. That marching lockstep. I love Walmart. Hold on. Where's my stovepipe? I am a numbskull. A foolish worker bee drone. I love Walmart. Walmart was good to me. They gave me this lousy, stinking, low-paying job. I might be a retail manager someday, and I will make a little tiny bit more money than I already make. Well, look up. You have a future. You see the new Walmart? I have a future with Walmart. You see the new Walmart commercial? They show a bunch of like farmers market stands where they're selling their good organic produce. And the guy says, all of this stuff comes from Walmart. Oh, sure. I thought it all came from China. Walmart's products come from China. Their clothes come from Bangladesh, which, by the way, had no safety regulations in the factory. People died. The place burned down. Bangladesh is making 10 or 15 cents an hour, whatever they make. They all perished. Yeah, they were making less money than the Chinese make. So that's what companies are moving there now. Now they're going to Bangladesh. It's too expensive for them now. $0.32 an hour at Foxconn in China is too expensive. We must outsource to Bangladesh. Yeah, and these poor people are working long hours and getting next to nothing and with no safety. It's how it was back in the Gilded Age, the Industrial Revolution when that began. Well, they wanted to try. I thought somebody said something to the effect of a new article that something about unions and I believe I said something to the effect like, hey, if there weren't a need, unions would have not come about in the first place. What is the reason why the unions started? And that has nothing to do with oh, they're corrupt today and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, tell me something that isn't corrupt. Republicans blame everything on the unions. If you're a lay person and you're not well-schooled in history, see that old movie with Sylvester Stallone called Fist. Today that might be mistaken, dolls, for people might think that has to do with fisting. Well, the perverts out there, yeah. Yeah. If you know what that is. But anyway, the point is it has to do with the ionic beginnings of the unions and why they came about. Right. They didn't just magically appear to aggravate Republicans. But the politicians back then were very close in cahoots to the president of these companies. They were corrupt. And the police were also corrupt. How do you think we got this stupid idea that corporations are persons under the 14th Amendment? That came about because a corrupt clerk, he used to work for the railroads, put that as a headnote on a case, Santa Clara versus the railroad or whatever and he put that on a headnote and all of a sudden, corporations are persons under the 14th Amendment. And then after that they came and they called they said a precedence. Precedence where there was no precedent. Corporations are persons. You can patent mother nature and all these other ridiculous or you could deregulate companies so they can get away with being crooked. All this crap. Decriminalize all criminal activity? Because the Republicans are responsible for all of this. The child labor, against the minimum wage, against the benefits that you have a right to. But they do support the 2nd Amendment. A gun for everybody. That's true. Because we don't trust our government. They want you... Yeah, that's kind of a little contradictory. The right wing are fascist. They want to enslave the little guy. They... But they believe in everybody having firearms. Isn't that a little contradictory to... The cure for a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun. Okay. Didn't you go through that in the Wild West? Yeah, Dodge City. Yeah, but if you have... If people are that poor and they make so little money, how are they going to buy the goods that these corporations make? They never thought that through. It takes a liberal to think that through. They think short-term only. Short-term profits. And ideology. And ideology. Not facts, not proven facts. On ideology, there's no questioning. No questioning of ideology. That's like when they told Columbus the world was flat. Exactly. The world is flat. You say over there you're going to fall off! You're going to fall off! They gave Galileo a hard time, Copernicus, but, you know, their ideology insisted that they were right even though they had no proof. They had the power. They only had the power. The misuse of power. That's what we have today. But the disclosure of their sheer scope stunned some lawmakers, shocked foreign allies from nations with strict privacy protections, and emboldened civil liberties advocates who long have accused the government of being too invasive in the name of national security. Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, has complained that James Clapper, Director of Intelligence, misled a Senate committee in March by denying that the NSA collects data on millions of Americans. He didn't mislead them. He lied. He lied to Congress which, my friend, is a criminal act. Contempt. And he should be prosecuted. Contempt of Congress, right? Will he be prosecuted? But if he was a Democrat surrounded by conservatives. If he was a whistleblower, he would be prosecuted. Well, a whistleblower, yeah. Exposing the bad guys, exposing the corruption. On Wednesday, Representative Justin Amash, Republican of Michigan called for Clapper to resign. Congress can't make informed decisions on intelligence issues when the head of the Intelligence Committee community willfully makes a false statement. Some Congress members acknowledged they'd been caught unaware by the scope of the programs having skipped previous briefings by the Intelligence Committee. I think Congress has really found itself a little bit asleep at the wheel. Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, said. Sure do, every Christmas it comes on. Yeah, and a chia pet, and now there's chia Obama. Chia Obama, yes. Chia everything, actually. Hi. I'm from men's warehouse. You gotta like the way you look. I guarantee it. Since every bride is different and every groom is different. Every bride is different. Every groom is different. You're gonna look your best. You gotta look your best even though you're a bridezilla and you're a spoiled bitch and you want everything perfect in your wedding reception. There's a show, there's a reality show about that, bridezilla. Brideszilla, yeah. Brides from hell. You know? Oh yeah, and then you got one last one because I'm gonna try. What about your favorite governor? I'm gonna try to get back to William Morrow. So let this be the last reading. There's something wrong with the phone. I want to see. In moving it, maybe you touched something. I don't know if there's a volume control. Well first I want to look on the side. Yeah. It's possible there's a volume control. Okay. My favorite governor, Chris, Crisco Christi What are you talking about? That's right. The guy that keeps on saying New Jersey, we're stronger than the storm. Oh yeah. We're stronger than the storm. Oh yeah. There you go. Once again, New Jersey taxpayers will shoulder the cost of Governor Christi's re-election campaign for governor. Oh gee. What else is new? We're already paying about $100 million for the no bid contract from a Florida company instead of a New Jersey company, by the way, to clean up after the storm. $25 million of our hard-earned tax dollars were diverted from victims of Sandy to pay for ads that promote the governor. The little guy paying the taxes, not the rich that don't pay taxes. You would figure that would provide more jobs to clean up. Would provide more jobs in New Jersey, wouldn't it? Yes. Now, Christi plans a special election that will cost millions of dollars more to avoid having additional competition on his ballot. Christi is a typical bully. Typical Republican too. Running from a fair fight. If the governor is so sure of his record that he's spending millions of our money to promote himself. The dictator, Christi. The emperor of the state of New Jersey. By adding a special election the governor is fixing November's ballot in order to win. That does not sound like leadership. That sounds like cheating. And I hope Barbara Bono, his opponent has the gumption to recognize this to open her mouth about it and let the citizens of New Jersey know this. And he's giving us the bill. Isn't that what Republicans usually do? Give the little guy the bill. Corporations do that too. They ship their costs to the society. And the environment. They destroy it. All for profit. Correct. Short-term profit. Yeah. The reality of Governor Christi's move to have two general elections deserves a court challenge. And I hope Barbara Bono's people do put them to that court challenge. What really matters is that having two elections within 20 days of each other is not only expensive, it's senseless. If the governor's decision stands election workers in 20 days to reprogram voting machines for the general election, right? Well, not really. Really. By the way, you know, when these elections are the people who sit there all day to take the names and all that stuff, they make 200 bucks a day. Oh, really? But you got to spend the day. You got to be there like 5 o'clock in the morning. All day. Until the polls close. Which is 8 or 9 p.m., I guess. Yeah. Voting machines can't be tampered with for 15 days after an election in case there is a challenge and a recount is required. 20 days is not sufficient time to reprogram the machines and prepare them for a complicated general election. 5 days is ridiculous. So the governor should accept the fact there may be a popular democratic candidate for U.S. senator on the ballot this November. Cory Booker. Cory Booker, a mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Fine man. I hope that his ego and presidential ambitions can take the hit of his name not being at the top of the page. The alternative is to proceed with this hare brain scheme. It's inevitable mistakes will be made in programming voting machines and preparing them for voters. Legal challenges will abound. Hopefully the courts will acknowledge the danger and move the general expenditure in New Jersey to November 5th. That is where it belongs. Anything detrimental to balloon boy Chris Chrissy is my pleasure. Anyway, thank you for joining us for progressive discussions this week. Take care and remember vote out the conservatives and every time there's an election in your state even locally. Vote out all the blue dog Democrats. But then again, what's the alternative? Well, that's the problem. That's where the system has to be fixed. That is the problem. Say good so long to these people.