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Questioning him. Ellen nakashimathe National Post security reporter and bob cusack, the editor in chief of the hill. Thank you for returning. Ellen it has been a big couple of weeks in the world of surveillance reform with last week and federal Appeals Court in new york were saying the nsa Collection Program that collects records of millions of americans phone records, is a illegal and does not authorize by section 215, the patriot act. Just a few days ago, the house voted by an overwhelming mar...

Can be enlarged and expanded to protect National Security. How much sway that argument will have, its a guess. Host its also interesting that senator polls generally show the public support this for safety reasons. How do supporters of a modified Collection Program this way public concerns over safety . [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, redemption the polls have change with the rise of isis, certainly since we got to know who Edward Snowden is. Americans are feeling les...

[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. We are going to get the hearing started. I want to welcome director Nick Rasmussen from the National Counterterrorism center. Nick, we have invited you here today in an open session. I think some of the news outlets vice chair that said this would never happen with me being chairman that everything would be close and i want to point out we are having an open session and this is to provide the senate and the American People with an update on the current t...

Traveled to syria or attempted to travel there and who will return home. At least 3400 of them are from western europe. And that includes visa waiver countries, where theyre a plane ticket away from the United States. What we dont know is how many people are inside the United States following isil, and who are becoming inspired to carry out their own attacks. Separately al qaeda remains focused on conducting attacks against or homeland while aq in the ungoverned areas of pakistan may bes weak as...

Effectively fight isis and how will the Central Government in baghdad supplied military equipment directed to the kurds . At it prevent the transfer of equipment when i was ambassador. I dont have the statistics but the kurds believe that it has. They cite only 25 of hundreds of m. Rapp Armored Vehicles that have been provided to them and there are some pretty good reasons why we are careful in what we give them. The point is they are fighting. They are the allies of baghdad and a lot of these w...

This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. A major ruling on the legality of the nsas bulk collection of phone data. A federal Appeals Court says the program is illegal, was never authorized by congress and exceeds the authority under the patriot act. But they did not issue an injunction against the practice. The judges wrote that they would let Congress Sort that out. The judges sent the case back to a lower court. The same court that had originally thrown the case out. The aclu sued t...

Thats a funnel cloud. This was reported near cal 12 and washington avenue. And the thing is we need more daytime heating to fuel some of the storms and thats exactly whats in the forecast this afternoon. Its only going to get more active before things calm down and clear out getting into tomorrow. Were going to talk about the other storm reports that weve had so far this morning and whats expected later on this afternoon when our chance for thunderstorms intensifies. Thats all coming up. Right n...

And we begin this evening with a Major Overhaul for the city of clevelands Police Department. Changes that will significantly limit an officers abilities to use force under strict new guidelines from the Justice Department. The deal comes just days after a Cleveland Police officer was found not guilty of manslaughter in the Fatal Shooting of an unarmed black couple. The judges decision to acquit that officer prompted some protests. And clevelands mayor spoke today about the new rules. Today may ...

What he plans on doing with the money. That is ahead on bloomberg west. First, uber making the rounds on wall street. The company is seeking 1 billion credit line from a handful of banks. The company is in talks with six or seven banks. Uber declined to comment. We reported uber was planning to raise 1. 5 billion in a valuation. What does uber what with all this money . Is an ipo in the new future . Katey joins me now and from d. C. , gabe joins us. You just invested. You other perfect guy to be...

Hundreds of millions of dollars. What will it take for the nation to begin prioritizing investing in mass transit . Then we look at oil drilling from the the gulf of mexico to the arctic. Shell as it knowledged they will have to be the oil in place until the next summer gelling season, which is nine months away, and kill arctic sea. This is unacceptable. Amy despite protests from environmentalists, the Obama Administration has tentatively approved shells plans to begin oil drilling in the arctic...