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Intr national concern. often times its nonstate actors who are engaging in these issues as well. >> reporter: now, president obama was pressed on whether the recent revelation that the surveillance programs by the u.s. government undercut his argument to chinas program, he says he does not believe that is the case. he sees these as two separate issues. those are just some of the issues on the table today, and i also think north korea will be another topic under discussion. >> you can expect that...

There is some tsarnaev brothers carrying out an attack and had we known they were on the web sites or talking to this jihadist, we may have saved an 8-year-old boys life, they would have say this is worth it. >> thats been the tradeoff in recent years, erin. it started since the september 11th. americans, members of congress and republican and democratic administrations have made this decision that well were going to have to sacrifice some of these civil liberties in order to keep the country sa...

Card tractions as well. im john king in washington. lets discuss what we just heard with candy crowley, jessica yellin in california with the president. jess, i want to start with the very telling moment. the president said he was going to take one question, he gave a very lengthy answer about the surveillance programs, defending them saying this is a necessary tool, not big brother gone wild. he said he welcomed the debate. and as he walked off stage he was asked do you welcome the leaks, becau...

>> this is a dragnet. its an overreach. and we have got to find out why this is justified simply because of the nsa wants to do some data mining. >> interesting. the president is here in palm springs now for a mini summit with his chinese counterpart. is he supposed to be pressing, among other things about chinese cyber attacks. that conversation now might get a bit awkward for the u.s. side. shep? >> it might be dripping all over the place in irony. ed henry in palm springs with the president w...

Do you think there is any chance this controversy will come up in president obamas discussion with chinese president xi? >> this is a good question. this was largely a get to know the president of china meeting. one of the major concerns of the obama administration vis-a-vis china is chinas cyber espionage. ed alluded to this a little bit. chinas cyber espionage from other countries but mostly china, costs the united states $300 billion a year. equivalent to what we export to asia each and every...

And competition among the various insurance companies is starting to drive down premiums. that is at least the case the president will make. they believe this could be the incubator for the rest of the country. that is the point he wants to make. that will be hard to stay on message. there is increasing pressure. controversies back in washington. still the irs issue. justice department media leak investigations. now in terms of this the surveillance programs of both internet and phone records. t...

Presidential campaign then senator barack obama was really hitting the bush administration hard on executive power. saying a lot of this needed to be reined in. a second point i will make after the event in san jose, the president is going to palm springs to meet with the chinese president. at top of the agenda was supposed to pressure china over some of the cyber attacks. backdrop of the meetings with the chinas president will be the u.s.s own surveillance programs, bill. bill: ed mentioned thi...

Senator angus king, its a great point. >> we would have articles of impeachment already drawn up. >> thats true. >> weve got to do this. the question is, how do we minimize the impact on our citizens? >> thank you for your observations, senator angus king. david corn is the washington bureau chief of "mother jones" and an msnbc political analyst. i need a scorecard to keep track of whos on what side because there are some unusual alliances. break it down for me, david. >> well, you sure do. on...

05. >> seems dangerous. >> both of you guys ride horses. said that was more dangerous than riding an indycar. >> yeah. the its a fact. >> im going to say nothing because i want him to do well. up next, chuck todd joins us with the latest details on the nsas surveillance programs. plus, more cat videos. i want to see surprise kitty again. more "morning joe" back in a moment. im tony siragusa and im training guys who leak a little, to guard their manhood with new depend shields and guards. the dis...

See it not fitting into the typical "d," "r," left/right mode. on the right, you have karl rove saying hes in favor of these surveillance programs, but you have glenn beck thinks the black helicopters are coming next. and on the democratic side, you have democrats who support the president, and then others like ron wyden, senator from oregon, and mark udall, senator from colorado, for years have been talking about this stuff the best they can saying theres a program out there, its problematic, w...