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To give you a chance again to correct the record and to fully state the record. if i understand it right, you voted for the original and supported the re-authorization of that act, at least twice, and that your objection to the act that did pass this last time, the re-authorization, was not at all based on the question of whether to have the statute in place. it was, instead, based on an issue with regard to jurisdiction on tribal lands and other related matters. could you again restate position...

Democrats pushing forward on loosening environmental regulations, increased vetting of syrian refugees, exporting u.s. crude oil currently which theres a ban on. those issues are still being figured out. this is paul ryans first large-scale budget negotiation as speaker and his negotiators are still getting to know the democrats negotiators and how they work and what not. one very important part of this bill will be the droguea act, the health care for 9/11 first responders. jon stewart has been...

There has been some griping over the course of the years, but eventually people came to and said we got to move this forward. whats really happened recently its a very important point. a lot of these house republicans, they come from districts where amtrak plays no role. so essentially their entire model is it doesnt affect me i dont hear about it at home, i dont care about it, its another big spend government boondoggle that we do not need. if you talk to republicans from the northeast, a lot o...

Choice. we have all of that. and thats improved public schools. we eliminated social promotion in third grade which was a pretty difficult thing to do. we did all of this and we raised standards. and my belief is our standards have to be high enough where a student going through our system is college or career ready. and thats not whats happening right now. >> is common core a federal takeover -- >> no. it shouldnt be. heres where i think conservatives and myself all of us are deeply concerned w...

Were back is our panel. what is the one big thing to watch for the week ahead? marshall? >> east ukraine. we have to see if theres more trouble, if anything else develops. >> terms of russia and ukraine, what happens next. >> yes. >> john? >> labor force of working age americans. if its risine ingrising, that indication. >> the working age. >> i just came back from a conference. it is critical that we have the re-authorization which is coming up at the end of september. exports are key to jobs a...

Maryland. you voted with speaker boner and leader pelosi to keep the nsa program going. but, you know, youve probably seen these numbers our new msnbc news "wall street journal" poll showing 56% of americans are now worried these programs may go too far. if you look back at the numbers in 2006 thats up more than 10 percentage points. how then do you here, congressman defend these programs to your constituents based on this development? >> well, richard, i speak as somebody who opposed the re-aut...

Wiretapping in 2005 through the campaign in 2007 and then in 2008, so in june of 2008, the president supports the fisa re-authorization that has some improvements in his opinion to how foreign intelligence surveillance was done. i think that probably one of the big things in that that -- caused a lot of consternation with certain elements of his political supporters were telecommunications immunity for having been part of the program in the past. but i definitely think that -- i think it is -- a...

Need to be debated in public? and then prosecuting the person who put that information out there so we can talk about it? >> well, two separate things. we have -- look, dating back to the patriot act in late 2001 to the re-authorization of fisa in 2005 and 2008. specific aspects of fisa in 2011 and 2012. we have had some very public and should have public debate about what is possible underneath the foreign intelligence surveillance act. now, there are are classified -- there is classified infor...

Operate to keep us -- keep us safe. i think that hes always believed that there has to be a balance and somebody has to, in his words, watch the watchers. and i think that -- as he has seen these programs up close and he said in -- in that 2008 statement on the fisa re-authorization if he were elected president he would work to make sure that the balance of privacy and security was maintained to his like. >> all right. i want to thank robert gibbs. just like being back in the briefing room for m...

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