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Weve been talking the whole commercial break. i want to take one more moment from brian williams interview with edward snowden. >> all of your private communications, all of your transactions, all of your associations, who you talk to, who you love, what you buy, what you read, all of these things can be seized, and held by the government, and then searched later for any reason hardly without any justification, without any real oversight, without any real accountability for those who do wrong. >...

chancellor that things will be changing as well. im wolf blitzer, youre in "the situation room." all that coming up, but first, a campaign triple header right here in "the situation room." ill interview three republican presidential hopefuls today, mitt romney is on deck, rick santorum follows the next hour, right now the republican presidential can da aial candid. the former speaker of the house newt gingrich. spiker, thank you for coming in. eeveryone seems to agree that getting to t...

The fact that several high structures are still standing in japans largest earthquake on record is a testament to how well those buildings were designed. japan has become a world leader in engineering and retrofitting buildings. it kept the death toll from rising even higher. im joined now by mark in seattle who is a structure engineer and has visited haiti. i know you permanently performed some post earthquake investigations, youve written recon reports about haiti, also chile last year. how im...

Earthquakes suffered horrendous damage whereas chile and japan are showing what good structural engineering and earthquake design can do to protect the occupiants from suffering. >> you know, mark, were looking right now at pictures from chile last year of roadways that literally turn into vs. they buckle, topple over, completely collapse in upon themselves. is there any way to make a roadway that is immune from earthquake damage? particularly those ones that you stand up on those huge cement pi...

>> there you have it. jay leno having to follow the president. that is no easy task. especially the president had some very good writers. he is a funny guy as well. jay leno doing his deal. were going to talk about that. mark preston is here. lets bring mark in. mark is our political editor. i have to tell you, it is a tough job to follow the president. but he had me cracking up, the president did. i thought he was funnier than jay leno. im just saying. >> i think you are right. the twitter foll...