Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and “Left, Right & Center” host Matt Miller discuss the budget deal, John Boehner’s rebuke of tea party critics, suggested restraints for the NSA, “Dianne Feinstein and those hacks in the Senate,” Edward Snowden as a Foreign Policy magazine notable and the Wall Street Volcker Rule, a “full employment act for lawyers.”

— Adapted from KCRW by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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