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Basically. a lot of young people point to the privacy requirements. they dont like being part of anything thats collecting information. health care, is this going to be one of the detriments of people wanting to sign up? i is # todaa member of the countrys major technology executives at the white house may ask him to move aggressively to limit the top secret surveillance programs that rely on their software and platforms. lawrence odonnell is my colleague here on msnbc and the host of the last w...

In many countries has tipped too far in favor of the state and away from the rights of the individual, rights that are enshrined in our constitution. this undermines the freedoms we all cherish. its time for a change. these top tech execs were saying these surveillance programs go just too far. theyll be talking about that with with the president. as you mentioned, carol, yes, theyll be talking about the implementation of healthcare.gov, the messy rollout of the website. some other tech firms he...

Companies was more transparency, more reform. >> okay. so this is what they want. then we talk about this yesterday, this federal court ruling, you know, that this is possibly unconstitutional. snowden wrote that, quote, nsa spy program is collapsing. collapsing. i mean, some people see him as a hero. some see him as a criminal. here he is, perhaps single handedly bringing down the nsa. you agree? >> i wouldnt say hes bringing down the nsa. he certainly is bringing more attention to a bunch of s...

Over most of the conversation that lasted approaching three hours was the topic of surveillance. the president and his national security team right now are deciding what recommendations to adopt that theyre being provided from an outside review panel about the surveillance programs in this country, without compromising national security. were told from sources inside the meeting that the president was largely in a listening mode, that he wanted to get a better understanding of what those compani...

It all happens in secret, and the court hears the governments point of view, doesnt hear the adversarial point of view, and then rules. and if it rules in favor of the government, theres no one there to appeal. so, its a very stacked procedure when youre talking about these large programmatic surveillance programs like this call log metadata program were talking about. >> obviously, this is just a preliminary injunction from a district court judge, the appeals court above him, and then the rulin...

Hello, im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. we start with the heads of some of the countrys top tech.cans speaking with the president. theyre trying to air their that are concerns over the nsas surveillance programs. google, apple, twitter, yahoo! facebook, at&t some of the names represented over at the white house, all of them deeply concerned with what the nsa has been doing and how its impacting their bottom line. joining us senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, we just lear...

Some of the nsa surveillance programs may be unconstitutional? >> at this point, no. jay carney was asked about that at the top of this press briefing. and not surprisingly, wolf, he again punted over to the department of justice which did release that will brief statement saying yesterday that they believe that the bulk phone record collection that is going on at the nsa that is at the heart of that federal judges ruling yesterday who said that that is likely unconstitutional, the department of...

It all happens in secret, and the court hears the governments point of view, doesnt hear the adversarial point of view, and then rules. and if it rules in favor of the government, theres no one there to appeal. so, its a very stacked procedure when youre talking about these large programmatic surveillance programs like this call log metadata program were talking about. >> obviously, this is just a preliminary injunction from a district court judge, the appeals court above him, and then the rulin...

President and vice president arrived after that and spent the next two hours discussing the nsa surveillance programs with which these companies have been forced to comply. recently, many of these companies signed an open letter calling for reforms to the nsas wide-reaching surveillance programs and transparency. those programs have treated americas tech giants like a grab bag from which to mine user data, e-mail, chat, video, photos, you name it. much of the time the nsa isnt asking for the dat...

Surveillance programs. then theres the times here. we talked about this yesterday. edward snowden releasing a statement saying he feels vindicated by the ruling saying that the collection of data by the nsa he revealed to the world was most likely a violation of the constitution. and the reporter who helped snowden break the news told cnn he agrees. >> how can it not vindicate him? lets use common sense for a minute. heres an american citizen working inside of the government who discovers that t...