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Minister. any concerns about tense relations over that. >> what the meeting shows us is how deep the relationship with germany is. germany is one of the most significant partners and allies of the united states. and while the spying issue is clearly a very sensitive one in the relationship, we worked closely with germany on a whole host of issues from ukraine, as you mentioned, to iran which well be discussing in coming days. >> of course. im curious the timing and not informing the president. l...

He said. the u.s. has been far more quiet on the topic. no, the cia isnt tweeting about it, but today the white house offered this. >> allies with sophisticated intelligence agencies like the united states and germany understand with some degree of detail exactly what those intelligence relationships and activities entail. >> the germans say there is good contact still between top levels of both countries. the white house confirmed that conversations are going on right now in private. and that t...

Libertarians on the right and peel far on the left as well. they believe that the nsa spying issue has gone too far. what i want to say is any president thinking about these issues is considering a balance of national security and personal privacy. i think the reason the publics appetite is more on the side of personal privacy is we are no longer living under the daily threat of terrorism. this is no longer the case where george bush and tom ridge are showing us the color coded map of the day sa...

He also called the governments phone data collection almost orwellian. president obama said the information was collecting information on who called who and where. >> nobody is listening to your telephone calls. thats not what this program is about. >> reporter: and that its kept america safe. >> we know of at least 50 threats that have been averted because of this information. >> reporter: but judge leon said there is an utter lack of evidence that a terrorist attack has ever been prevented bec...

2 1/2 years in prison. the republican was convicted in june of extortion, bribery and fraud. the new fbi director is making changes to on the job training. income agents have to visit martin luther king memorial in washington. he said the move is a warning of the dangers of becoming untethered to oversight and accountability. women of the supreme court finally have the painting they deserve. artists unveiled it on monday at the smithsonian. it features the current female justice and sandra day o...

Mostly a partisan issue and thats slightly changing. up until now, if you think its a good thing that eshic holder -- if you think of him as a historical figure, the first african-american attorney general, if you like that he has gone after voter suppression tactics and if you support the president, you probably support eric holder. if you dont like president obama, you probably dont like iric hoilder. that has been changing of late. have you seen over the nsa spying issue, a number of democrat...

>> in the impact segment tonight. president obama relevant understands the rah because of federal power on the spying issue could well harm him once he leaves office. i suspect that on a list of people who might be targeted, you know, so that somebody could read their emails or listen it their phone calls, i would probably be pretty high on that list so would juan williams and mary katharine ham. join us now from washington. mary katharine, start with you tonight. because i always start with jua...

>> in the impact segment tonight. president obama relevant understands the rah because of federal power on the spying issue could well harm him once he leaves office. i suspect that on a list of people who might be targeted, you know, so that somebody could read their emails or listen it their phone calls, i would probably be pretty high on that list so would juan williams and mary katharine ham. join us now from washington. mary katharine, start with you tonight. because i always start with jua...

>> in the impact segment tonight. president obama relevant understands the rah because of federal power on the spying issue could well harm him once he leaves office. i suspect that on a list of people who might be targeted, you know, so that somebody could read their emails or listen it their phone calls, i would probably be pretty high on that list so would juan williams and mary katharine ham. join us now from washington. mary katharine, start with you tonight. because i always start with jua...

Coordinated and persistent attempts by the west enemies to carry out terror attacks. shep? >> thanks. now the question is about whether washington and moscow are working on a secret deal to trade accused spies. investigators in the united states rounded up 10 russian suspects just last week and right now, theyre moving all of them here to new york. its not clear if this could be part of a preparation for a swap but its not the only sign were seeing tonight. u.s. officials in d.c. also met with t...