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Rand paul announced a historic class action lawsuit against president obama and intelligence officials over the nsa program. ken cuccinelli is listed as head attorney on the case and partnered with freedom works, who is co- listed as plaintiffs there. this is what rand paul had to say regarding the presidents spying program and the nsa. he said, look, this is not paul revere running around. its different. >> the president, when he talked about privacy recently, he said oh, this is like paul reve...

And health care as the gap widens of keeping control of the senate and advancing parts of the white house agenda. we know harry reid, he met with the president last night reportedly to discuss strategy. house dems will be at the white house tonight. you there in d.c., democrats not coming together on these issues for what you hear? >> in an election year, its not uncommon for candidates who are maybe more conservative states where the president is not as popular to distance themselves from the p...

Certainly i met with more than one republican who was morified after huckabees speech and saying why is this man becoming the face of the party at a time were trying to talk about how we move forward. at the same time there were some changes that happened at lower levels. one remarkable thing passed a resolution saying the nsa spying program is unconstitutional. this is a program that for years through the bush administration were supportive of. so you do see the rnc moving a little bit. the mec...

Great congratulations on the great interview here. the remarks from eric holder combined with all the major changes the president announced this week when it comes to the nsa spying program, does this open the door to a plea deal for snowden? >> it doesnt look like the attorney general thinks theres any breakthroughs coming. people want to talk about whether snowden is a whistle-blower, he looks at edward snowden as a defendant and while they are open to plea deals, as they are with any defendan...

Proposed. every bill on abortion is coming out of the republican party. >> because youre scared to death to say fetal pain. youre scare to death to say that -- >> republican party is scared to death of this issue. >> were talking about governor huckabee said to governor cuomo, a sitting governor told 45% of his state youre not welcome here. >> can we move on from that because be have some other ground to carry. republicans dont want to just talk about abortion. ill prove it right now. democrats ...

Is no stranger to trouble. well have more in "the skinny." chris christie and his gop leadership are on deadline to turn over materials about the so-called bridgegate scandal to federal prosecutors. those materials were subpoenaed yesterday and the documents about the scandal are due to february 5th, just under two weeks from today. the scandal centers on traffic jams in ft. lee, new jersey, which seem to have been created as political payback, allegedly. hillary clinton could enter the 2016...

Good morning, im john muller. good morning. im john muller. >> im marci gonzalez in for diana perez. here are some of the top headlines were following on "world news now." were in for another day of brutally cold weather in half of the country. nearly 200 million people are affected as frigid temperatures hamper everything from travel to fire fighting. details in just a moment. controversial nsa spying program being called illegal by a government panel. a new report contradicts the white hou...

Disclosures. according to a poll, 6% said they are glad spy agency was made public. 35 not happy. how they feel about snowden and his crime plus or minus 3% margin of error. for more on all of this, lets bring in fox analyst judge andrew napolitano. nice to see you. >> the old days in the morning. >> a little better timeslot. lets talk about what you said, this message, the report that came out, what message does it send to the obama administration. >> the fourth government examination of the ns...

Comments that were previously requested. just 71 days from now, open enrollment ends, but the wall street journal is reporting most of the 2.2 million sign-up so far are enrolling because their other plans were canceled and only 11% were uninsured before the aca kicks in. >> new reaction coming in to a another controversy putting pressure on the obama administration. today, lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle were on the sunday talk shows sounding off on president obamas plan to refor...

We really didnt make a decision on friday. what we got was lots of uncertainty and just as my conversations over the weekend with intelligence officials, this new level of uncertainty is already having a bit of an impact on our ability to protect americans by fighting terrorism who are trying to reach into the united states. >> dallas law maker, one of the lawmakers speaking out after president obama announced changes to americas spying program. did the president go far enough to protect our pri...