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Comments that were previously requested. just 71 days from now, open enrollment ends, but the wall street journal is reporting most of the 2.2 million sign-up so far are enrolling because their other plans were canceled and only 11% were uninsured before the aca kicks in. >> new reaction coming in to a another controversy putting pressure on the obama administration. today, lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle were on the sunday talk shows sounding off on president obamas plan to refor...

Acknowledge that without these leaks which you know were very dangerous as the president said, we wouldnt really be having this kind of transparent debate. and that congress wouldnt now the be having a real transparent debate whether this is a good or a bad thing and whether privacy is too compromised by it. >> i think that the important thing is, after all of the leaks and after all the publicity, you have the chairs of the intelligence committees on the hill say nothing wrongdoing has been fou...

The fact we need those weapons to defend ourself and if theyre not being abused the thing to do is to make sure theyre being effectively used. >> interesting enough some argument about the nsa and potential abuses is already being in used in court today. the alleged christmas bomber in portland, oregon, a man who put a would-be bomb on side of the road thought it would explode in a crowd of people. he was arrested and charged. his lawyer is asking for new trial, he wants prosecutors all material...

Overseeinging this. >> but do you have -- do you acknowledge that without these leaks which you know were very dangerous as the president said, we wouldnt really be having this kind of transparent debate. and that congress wouldnt now the be having a real transparent debate whether this is a good or a bad thing and whether privacy is too compromised by it. >> i think that the important thing is, after all of the leaks and after all the publicity, you have the chairs of the intelligence committee...

With you, because in your legislation the usa freedom act, you are calling for an end to the bulk collection of this metadata. are you going to fight the president on this? >> no, i have a way we can do this. its not a question of fighting the president, its is what is the congress going to do about this. the court was very critical a few years ago. the abuses of the procedures we had to collect data are soon to clamp down. i worry because we just saw what happened, for example, the snowden thin...

Payback. >> i agree with jonah, this is plain old new jersey. but he crossed a line. were talking about serial abuses of government power. there is no bigger story in news. >> i dont -- look, if you type in chris christie, which is beyond idiotic, and the george washington bridge to the governor of illinois has seen half of its governors since 1960 go to jail, but none of them have gotten this kind of coverage. >> but the presidency is the issue with christie. >> i agree. but you said earlier, t...

Dangerous as the president said, we wouldnt really be having this kind of transparent debate. and that congress wouldnt now be having a real transparent debate whether this is a good or a bad thing and whether privacy is too compromised by it? >> i think that the important thing is, after all of the leaks and after all the publicity, you have the chairs of the intelligence committees on the hill say, no wrongdoing has been found. president saying this. no wrongdoing. no abuses. this is all about...

Will it sell? >> i thought the presidents speech today was great, much better than the actual proposals because he talked about the dilemmas and the tensions to try to get it right. >> honestly. >> he talked about it honestly. he talked about abuses in the past and potential abuses in the future. and ultimately, if youre going to do anything secret via the government, there has to be a certain amount of oversight that you can trust. up to now for decades weve had congresses and often presidents ...

Barretts, that would be amazing. >> were not asking for more secret agents, were asking to let the nsa do its job and try to protect us using the tools they have. theres been no abuses so far. >> im glad you protect them and im glad you claim there have been no abuses, why are the vast majority of -- leaving the obama administration in droves? its not necessarily because of health care and the economy. its because of the snowden thing. >> im afraid people think that the nsa is doing things that ...

>> i dont know what the policy is right now. gary, b. and if the aim is to stop terrorism, should we really be reigning this in? >> exactly, brenda, i guess my thinking to obamas segment is irrelevant. does anyone believe what is going to change with the nsa? do we think we will stop spying on our friends in europe? i think we will continue to psy spy on them. they will continue to spy on us. you know, look, when the irs abuses power, i am all for clamping down, when obamacare says im all for ge...