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Republicans, because i mean, putting mike pence aside for the reasons that jen and maggie have said, hes in a separate category. but i find it even hard to believe that even the presidents most ardent supporters say to themselves or say out loud, you know, its a good thing to go to the leader of china and say investigate former vice president. put that in the mix. you know, maybe our tariffs should be -- give them a break on tariffs if they agree to investigate the vice president. that strikes m...

Category. but i find it even hard to believe that even the presidents most ardent supporters say to themselves or say out loud, you know, its a good thing to go to the leader of china and say investigate former vice president. put that in the mix. you know, maybe our tariffs should be -- give them a break on tariffs if they agree to investigate the vice president. that strikes me as so outside the known universe of political opinion in the united states that i think even the presidents supporter...

Thats just one place they are fighting on. >> they are fighting over immigration, national security, their records, but when you look at the polling and lock state specific, cruz is searching in iowa, rubio, not so much. why? >> he has cultivated that in iowa trying to cultivate that community. rubio is is his first extended stay was last week. but what were seeing is what david said. these contenders have run excellent campaigns and see them emerging as that second tier right below donald trump...

Snow den that made russia his home since the spying programs has posted a first tweet. it is a question asking, simply, can you hear me now? thanks for the welcome and now that we have water on mars, do you think they check passports at the border? asking for a friend. kind of tongue in cheek. you can see hes keeping the sense of humor there and then heres the verified account with his handle with more than 300,000 followers and counting and a total of 7 wiets now, based on what ive been looking...

At least parts of the patriot act even though several key spying programs have expired due to senate gridlock and politics. the obama administration is pushing for quick action. lets go to the white house. our correspondent michelle kosinski is standing by with the latest. >> reporter: started with a storm over how best to protect our national security and privacy, and now of course it has also become a political storm. you have senator rand paul claiming victory now that these parts of the patr...

Surprising considering it was the year of sandra bullock and cate blanchett. those are the numbers. thank you so much for being with us this morning. im francis rivera. this is "first look on msnbc." well leave you with this live picture from chicago where drivers are making a morning commute in white-out conditions. "way too early" starts right now. >> ive always supported the government spying programs, but apparently unchecked eavesdropping on our own citizens comes at a terrible price. the p...

Thought you should know today. developing now in the next few minutes, edward snowden is scheduled to appear live at the giant tech industry festival in austin festival at the south by southwest interactive festival video conference by moscow. he is expected to talk about technology, the community and how it can protect itself from mass surveillance. julian assange who published the revelations about the spying programs appeared at the festival by skype on saturday. new revelations are coming ...

And americans safe. >> critics say americans should know more. >> we could have been more candid with the american people up front. >> the nsa has been collecting nearly 200 million text messages a day. that plus phone records and allegations of spying on world leaders, all leaked by former nsa contractor, edward snowden. >> we are dealing with an agency that didnt have adequate enough safeguards to keep a sub krat tore from stealing millions and millions and millions of files. >> the president ...

Thursday on his speech revealing changes to nsa spying programs. the final decision, by all appearances, came very late. >> im, therefore, ordering a transition to end the metadata program as it exists. >> reporter: but the deliberating isnt done. the president saying that his administration will consult further with experts and ultimately leave congress to decide which third party will store details like phone numbers and length of calls. >> who we going to hire? snowdens contract to collect th...

Today, new warnings and reports of possible ties to the russian mob. our phil black is in moscow. he is reporting this morning the code is similar to whats being pedalled on russian-speaking websites. next hour, president obama announces reforms to the nsa and its passive spying programs that have collected information on any of us. we will have more in just a minute. first, the latest on the target investigation. christine romans is our chief business correspondent and phil black is in moscow. ...