all right, nick, thank you so much. we appreciate it. let s talk about lawmakers and the fact that they are scrambling in washington to make a deal as the clock ticks down. to the agency s massive data collection program. the obama administration, as we know, is warning of a critical gap in national security coverage. not everyone, though, on capitol hill is sharing this view. sumlin serfaty is following this. good morning, christi. it s now about 40 hours before sunday s med night deadline and still there s no sign of resolution. the white house has been ratcheting up their language, making a big push, wondering what will happen if congress allows the surveillance program to expire. president obama said it would be irresponsible and reckless for what he says are essential tools that would need to be given up if these provisions expire. he called for the oval office
martha: new questions how the federal ruling against the national security agency s data collection program will affect the former government contractor edward snowden, who leaked thousands of confidential documents and got the ball rolling in a lot of ways. he is very proud of that senator rand paul says the case is complicated. while the nsa leaker broke the law, his information did uncover the truth he says, behind this program. here is senator paul. it will have to be some sort of punishment but i think it could be negotiated because he did it to, he did it to reveal something that the government was not telling the truth about in which the courts are now saying was illegal. i think it definitely gives some justification to it. but the other side of the coin is you really can t have people who have privileged information just decide when they re going to reveal it. martha: michael mukasey served as u.s. attorney general under president george w. bush. he joins us now. good to hav
statement responding to the report on deflate gate scandal claiming it has significant and tragic flaws. the report determined it is more probable than not that brady was at least generally aware footballs were being deflated. and the federal appeals court here in new york ruled that the nsa program that collected information from billions of phone calls is illegal. the panel ruled that current law does not authorize that kind of data collection but refused to block the data collection program. she is the highest paid actor in television. actress sofia vergara gave interviews over the battle over their two frozen embryos. nick loeb spoke exclusively with the today show this morning and says this has nothing to do with her star status. lives were already created. we created a lot of question
the government is said to be in charge of most of that airport if not all of it but fighting and chaos continues. you could soon find out whether our own national security agency has spied on you. that s according to the investigative journalist who claims he has that information. former nsa contractor edward snowden last year leaked secret documents that reveal vast government u.s. system for monitoring phone and internet data. snowden gave him a slew of those documents last year in hong kong, he says. now glenn greenwold will release names of u.s. citizens that the nsa targeted in its data collection program. greenwold said he is saving the best for last, like the grand finale of a fireworks show. adrian is here, read the book over the weekend, as i understand it. no place to hide , and shows
an impact. so again, we are anticipating that secretary of state john kerry s meeting with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov will begin any minute now. we will be monitoring it closely, and we expect to hear from secretary kerry at some point later today. we ll be looking for your notes in the hot file and as well with live reporting. thanks so much. more politics now. new reaction today from a key lawmaker to president obama s proposed changes to the nsa data collection program. here s the chair of the senate intelligence committee dianne feinstein. what the president is proposing is that data only be held for 18 months instead of five years. that is a good suggestion. that the hops, that if i were the principal terrorist calling you in the united states, that s one hop. the hops be held to two, as opposed to three. that s a good suggestion. the question comes, can a bill be passed? it s very controversial. we are awaiting a number of