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Been under way for a number of years and that when the president learned about it, he ordered it stopped. does the president continue 0 have full confidence in general alexander to administer security? >> the president has full confidence in general alexander and the leadership at the nsa and in the rank and file at the nsa who do extraordinary work on behalf of every american citizen and on behalf of our allies and keeping them safe. the issues that are part of the review look at how we can bet...

The bugging if he had known about it. lawmakers say new leaks from edward snowden about the u.s. intercepting phone calls from other officials are really hurting relations. >> i think the revelations from snowden and the secrets that have been revealed are doing significant damage to our bilateral relationships with germany, with mexico, with the other countries where the suggestion is that we have listened in. so i think we have repair work to do. bill: brazils president canceled a state visit ...

Feinstein is saying. >> thank you, jim. lets get more on the latest in the allegations. our chief national security correspondent jim scuitto is here. what are you learning? i want two main headlines, the president did not know, but when he found out about the extent, he did end parts of it. administration officials say the president found out about nsas finding only this summer when the administration conducted a review. he ended parts of the program, including surveillance of phone calls of ...

President. is the obama administration national security strategy hurting our relationships abroad? >> we, like other nations, gather foreign intelligence because it is in our national security interests to do so. there are real threats out there against the american people and against our allies, including germany, including allies around europe and around the world. we also need to balance those security needs against the understandable privacy concerns that we all share. for fast, lo, use doc...

This. >> would never get into specific either allegations for operational matters of foreign intelligence gathering except to say we gather foreign intelligence much as other countries do. and to say that we are reviewing as the president made clear our foreign intelligence operations with a mind to strike the balance of our security needs and their needs and the concerns we we all share. beyond that i cant get into the details. beyond the readout of the chancellors and presidents phone call. >>...

Public is very weary of is the fact that ten years ago or however long ago it was, we were lied to. we were lied to about the evidence. we were told that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. but we certainly have seen and i have, ive seen the videos and now the world has. i do believe that assad used chemical weapons. but if there is an opportunity to have those weapons revealed for the world and destroyed and to have syria sign the chemical weapons ban just like 180-plus countries ar...

One, california another. then other states which will have unhealthy, unwell people because the ideology of their representatives will dominate over the security needs of their people. >> that dynamic will particularly renowned against the poor because the government will step in and set up exchanges for people who cant get health care through the marketplace. its the medication expansion that states are turning down. the dynamic that they just described will hurt people. >> thats the irony, rig...

Find the guilty party and he was guilty, isnt that illegal? thats fraud. >> thats my favorite part of the story. he paid for it alleged lip with campaign contributions. $43,000 to a private investigations form. obviously anthony didnt hear about diligence. we are there for all of your security needs. we would have started the investigation and we would have realized anthony was sending those texts and we would have put that into an invoice and charged him $23,000. >> have you ever had a client t...

Even long-term security needs. this point about national security interests, and what is in our best interests or in our alis and that means israel as well, id like to hear more from the president on that. he has gotten a real pass. this point about the redline, they talked themselves into cornersñr all the team -- >> shepard: he did that. >> president obama did that and then made it a blurry red line and now our allies, like france and the uk, everyç week you hae on this show you guys report...

Pickering. 29 recommendations. the question is, what do we do now moving forward about the unaddressed security needs in libya? how do we fund those? and sure, lets have more discussion. but darrell issa and the republicans are not in a position to do what this country needs in terms of any sober fact finding. >> we are down to talking points. thats where the right wing is right now. e.j. dionne, do you think presidential politics played into these talking points as the right wing is accusing th...