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Full review of all of their surveillance programs. she quote, totally opposed to spying on u.s. allies and adds congress has not been kept in the loop. feinsteins counterpart, republican susan collins agrees in a statement she says, she notes theres no justification for collecting intel on leaders of our closest allies and said she will meet with the german ambassador tonight to say she is opposed to the phone tapping. we begin with capitol hill correspondent kelly odonnell. the hearing is in a ...

What i remember the most was those firemen running up the stairs to save people to themselves lose their lives. and we had this great picture that was created afterward of a fireman handing a flag off to the military, and i say the intelligence community and say, weve got it from here. >> were going to continue to monitor this hearing. general keith alexander now testifying. earlier you heard james clapper strongly support the nsa surveillance programs. well take a quick break. more special cove...

Review which is how the white house said the president first learn of spying on foreign leaders. administration officials saying the president did not know she was a target and would not know specific targets but another u.s. official telling cnn that he would have had to know about the framework of such surveillance programs including the countrys target. still very hard questions for the administration to answer here. the president obama would not confirm the nsa was spying on the phone calls ...

Terrorist threat, today the head of the nsa justified the sweeping surveillance programs by emphasizing the growing threat from global extremists citing 2,300 deaths this month alone, bret. >> kathrine, tonight news in the hunt for benghazi suspects? >> yes. we were first to report here on fox a key suspects in the attack have ties to the al qaeda senior leadership. and what we also understand through our contacts is that about half a dozen target packages were approved but have not been acted u...

This followed news that the united states reportedly intercepted millions of phone calls in france and germany. german chancellor angela merkel is upset that her cell phone calls were monitored for years. the "the wall street journal" reports that president obama didnt know about this until this summer and then put a stop to it. the house intelligence chief said all in all the nsa surveillance programs abroad keep us and the u.s. safe. listen. >> how damaging it for the german chancellor or the ...

It. >> do you think the snowden leaks have hurt americas ability to defend itself? >> i do. i think hes a traitor. can hope we can catch him at some point and that he receives the justice he deserves. >> so brooke, there you have it. if you go underneath what the vice president said behind his reluctance to talk about specific programs, he did say we are vulnerable, as shown on 9/11. you never know what youre going to need when you need it. and that these programs allow the u.s. to conduct forei...

Target or group of targets, that intelligence capability is enormously important to the united states, through our conduct of foreign policy to the defense matters, to economic matters, and im a strong supporter of it. >> of all of it? >> im a strong supporter of our generic capability to collect intelligence. i dont want to comment on any one particular controversy or piece of the programs. >> the white house says that president obama did not know about these spy programs on specific world lead...

Now politicians on both sides of the aisle are conceding there may be tension with our allies but they are basically defending these practices. and thats including republican mike rogers. he chairs the house intelligence committee and heres what he told cnns candy crowley this morning. >> we need to be respectful. but we also need to be -- and we need to be accurate. it needs to be overseen and make sure that were not collecting information we dont need but we should collect information that is ...

It spells problems for broader obamacare. >> i would love to talk college football with you, but thats after the commercial. >> congression alleyeders say no one should be looking for a big budget deal. harry reid says any notion that would include cuts to entitlement programs he is calling it, quote happy talk. paul rine said he is focusing on an effort to make some kind of progress. it is going get underway on wednesday. nsa eavesdropping is having a real im pact on u.s. relations abroad. ev...

Phone it broke german law. that comes a day after a german magazine reported monitoring goes back more than ten years. chief national security correspondent has more on the fallout. >> reporter: germany sending a delegation to the u.s. to discuss nsa surveillance, in effect work out some ground rules for whats acceptable and not. this comes as the white house in public acknowledging in effect overreach in the surveillance programs and how far it was allowed to go. the administration in damage co...