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To kick russia off the g8. they agreed to boycott planned g8 summit meeting in sochi. ru russia dismissed the move as unimportant. the nsas controversial phone data program could go under a major overhaul. the proposal would allow phone companies to keep the call data instead and require the nsa to get a court order to access the information. in south africa, more compelling testimony in the osc oscar pistorius murder trial. they are cross examining the text messages reeva steenkamp tent -- ...

Restructuring the phone data program thats collected information on billions of calls, texts, e-mails, et cetera in the u.s. one idea is to put the information back either in the hands of a third party, or in the telephone companies themselves, instead of having it housed by the nsa. like many of the reforms, he is expected to seek, the proposal may have to go through congress first. adam schiff, member of the house intelligence committee, and also briefed last week at the white house about some...

Than a million out of work americans set to lose their lifeline. jobless benefits expire at midnight and theres a bipartisan proposal to extend them but will republicans support the measure? well have more on that. plus, the justice department responds after a federal judge ruled just today that the nsa phone data program is legal. more on the direct counterpunch to the ruling that found it to be unconstitutional. fighting for a fair child 70 years later. a hearing is scheduled to clear the na...

President. when im president one of the first things im going to do is call in my attorney general and say to him or her i want you to review every executive order issued by george bush, whether it relates to warrantless wiretaps or detaining people or reading e-mails, whatever it is, i want you to go through every single one of them and if they are unconstitutional or encoaching on civil liberties unnecessarily, we are going to overturn this many, change them. >> president obama says he has inc...

I could eat that all day long. you dont want peanut butter? >> i love peanut butter. >> dig it, girl. >> nancy grace talks to me about her trip behind bars. hour two. thanks for staying with me. im brooke baldwin. a lot of folks very upset this afternoon about a new revelation about government spying. a lot of folks defending this. a new report suggests records of phone calls handled by verizon and possibly every phone calling, period, are being funneled into the files of the top secret govern...