Peter King: Rand Paul lying about NSA surveillance

In the latest round between Sen. Rand Paul and Republican hawks, Rep. Peter King is accusing the Kentucky Republican of providing a "grab bag of misinformation and distortion" about the NSA's surveillance programs.

"I totally disagree with what Sen. Rand Paul says," King said on "Fox News Sunday." "That was just a grab bag of misinformation and distortion."

If Paul was right and "billions of phone calls" were being collected, the Republican congressman from New York said, then the nearly 3,000 documented abuses of the records each year were miniscule.

"If you have a 99.99 percent batting average, that's better than most media people do, most politicians do," King said. "I have tremendous respect for Gen. [Keith] Alexander and the whole NSA. This whole tone of snooping and spying we use, I think it's horrible. I think it's really a smear and a slander of good, patriotic Americans."