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Contrasting rulings could take the NSA to the Supreme Court

On December 27, 2013 a federal judge ruled that the government's collection of phone records is constitutional. This, in contrast to another federal judge's ruling just 11 days earlier that said it likely wasn't. The case ultimately might be headed to the Supreme Court. Adam Liptak, the supreme court reporter for the New York Times talks about what might come next.