NSA director, Gen. Keith Alexander, seemed to skirt around a rather important question during a House Intelligence Committee hearing today. When asked whether the NSA has the ability to listen to phone calls or read emails under the surveillance program, he answered, “No, we do not have that authority.”

Did you catch that? Judge Andrew Napolitano sure did and he joined Your World with his reaction. “If it were in my courtroom, I would’ve said ‘General, answer the question.’”

Why did Gen. Alexander dodge the question? Napolitano said it’s because of course the NSA has the ability to listen in on phone calls and read emails, but the government wants the American people to trust them with that info.

If this is the same administration said “trust us” when they changed the Benghazi story, snooped on reporters, and targeted conservative groups, then why would people trust them, Napolitano asked.

“Let me tell you this: they get a phone number, a child can punch the phone number into a computer and find out whose it is and where they live,” the judge said. Holding up his cell phone, he added, “And then this becomes their listening device, even when it’s not on, as long as the battery’s in it, and they know that. Did they tell us that today? They did not.”