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. >> david: joining me now is political strategist and chair of dogpatch strategies donnie fowler. donnie, thanks for being back in "the war room." >> glad to be here. >> david: there were a lot of questions about george bush politicizing terror warnings, should we be asking those questions now? >> we don't have in the last four and a half years a lot of evidence of barack obama doing the same thing as bush and cheney. so we don't need to be spectacle of these warnings on those facts alone. >> david: most congressmen have spoken out in favor of this, but they don't know much necessarily about what the nsa is doing. there was a big story in the guardian, saying members are being rejected in trying to find out what is going on. so are lawmakers sort of saying stuff that they don't know what they are saying. >> lawmakers, as you know, david like to follow the pack and take the safest position, and the safest position is say let's trust these are bad guys, sure they want to get us. >> stephanie: let's turn to some of the fighting among the parties right now. last week rand paul and chr