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Migration issues when you are seeking a fugitive from justice. matthew chance, thank you so much. nice to see you. >> president obama and congressional leaders promising changes at the nsa after meeting with lawmakers where heed. the president said both parties agree to work to improve privacy protections at the agency in the coming months and to make sure that the msa surveillance programs are more transparent to the american people. in michigan a medical student -- this photo was released fr...

Of course you are going to want to see this so stay with cnn for live coverage of castros sentencing beginning 9:00 a.m. eastern. nsas top secret surveillance programs under fire. president obama and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are going to hold a closed door meeting at the white house to discuss privacy as another edward snowden bomb shell is dropped detailing how much the intelligence agency is spying or could be spying on your internet activities. barbara starr with more on this. new re...

Access for their assigned tasks. >> reporter: meanwhile the nsa says xkeyscore helped them catch more than 300 terrorists by 2008. and quote, not every analyst can perform every function and no analyst can operate freely. every search by an nsa analyst is fully auditable to insure they are proper and within the law. bill, the white house is also working really hard today to calm congress down about these latest reports about nsa programs. the president day is going to meet with eight lawmakers i...

Who dont like whats happening in the nsa, the white house is defending the agencys controversial domestic surveillance programs even as new information leaks about the nsas ability to monitor everything you do online. >> reporter: the obama administration under attack for its surveillance programs. national security agency director keith alexander heckled. >> i dont trust you. >> i havent lied to congress. >> reporter: while congress questions is the nsa spying on us? and who is accountable for ...

Controversial surveillance programs. we have gone through these documents. we have read them. and then the biggest takeaway is this. the nsas two bulk collection programs have had a number of technical and human compliance issues. but according to these documents, the problems are being addressed. many details about these technical and human problems, though, they have been redacted. theyve been blacked out. let me bring in crime and justice correspondent joe johns in washington. the nsa, theyre...

Thicker. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> two issues here. the privacy and the relationship with russia. let me start what continued to be growing concessions over privacy concern. what is your take on these surveillance programs? >> i think they are necessary and there are privacy protections built in there and actually i support the program because there are -- >> we haven nont gone too far? >> thousands of terrorists trying to get to us each day and we have stopped most of them but th...

Your government is revealing top secret details and problems with how it collects information on phone calls, your e-mails, all in the name of protecting you from potential terror plots. the director of national intelligence james clapper released these three declassified documents today, hours before lawmakers started grilling the nsa on its controversial surveillance programs. the documents say that the nsas two bulk collection programs have had a number of technical and a number of human comp...

Analyst still faces a maximum sentence of 136 years in jail, convicted on 20 counts, including stealing classified information, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet and possession of classified videos including a 2007 video showing u.s. troops firing on people in baghdad. so the judge will decide the sentence based partially on how much damage manning has caused to national security. same issue later today congress will convene a hearing on the national security agency...

Statutory and constitutional requirements. >> how many objections have there been? last week the house just barely defeated an amendment that could have ended the collection of phone records entirely. the margin was 12 votes out of more than 400 lawmakers. steve centanni what else came out of the hearing? >> basically we saw the increasing momentum behind those efforts to crack down on the nsa over its secret surveillance programs. edward snowden was able to walk away from an nsa facility with h...

There. >> just makes you wonder why. whats the point? >> thats what theyll have to figure out. in the nations capital, something else going on. one thing for sure, the peace talks. >> under way right now. day two of renewed mideast peace talks under way this morning after day one. the white house already tempering expectations saying negotiations have months of work to do. secretary of state john kerry says his goal is reaching reasonable compromises on some of their most contentious issues. thi...