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With, you know, the economic commissions and so forth. president has appointed panels to make recommendations and then they go nowhere. >> correct. did that with the bowles-simpson commission on the deficit. and so, but i think this is a little bit different. first of all you have the public pressure. the public doesnt like, especially the one program that is really the problem is the metadata program, right? the mass surveillance of all-americans phone calls and whatnot. the public that doesnt ...

Director general keith alexander, the group urges the appointment of civilians, not military leaders, to run the agency. the white house says it understands reforms are needed. >> we need to make sure that were not gathering intelligence solely because we can but because we must, because we need it in order to achieve the objective of protecting the united states, protecting the american people and allies. >> reporter: the question is what the president will decide. in a recent interview he sugg...

>> ill be proposing some self-restraint on the nsa and to initiate reforms that can give people more confidence. >> reporter: according to a source familiar with this weeks meeting between top tech executives and the president, mr. obama repeated his goal of self-restraint but indicated he may allow the collection of phone data to continue but with more oversight and transparency. that may not be enough for members of congress across the political spectrum. >> nsa, youve gone too far. the bulk c...

Intends to establish residency and register to vote in new hampshire. and president obama says he wishes washington were more like house of cards. the series features a ruthless majority whip played by kevin spacey. listen to what obama said to tech executives at the white house. among them, netflixs ceo. >> i wish things were that ruthlessly taken. thats true. i was looking at kevin spacey, man this guy is getting a lot of stuff done. >> and thats your mornings dish of "scrambled politics." and...

From silicon valley tuesday at the white house. they wanted to talk about the nsa spying scantal. some of the tech titans left frustrated. senior white house correspondent jim acosta has exclusive details. tell us, jim. >> reporter: good morning, carol. youll recall last week some of the tech executives sent a letter to the president saying the surveillance programs are at the nsa undermine freedoms we cherish and its time for a change. they got a meeting at the white house with the president, t...

On the nsa spying program. top firms in the technology industry are trying to pressure the white house, the administration into scaling back that surveillance and making reforms to those programs. lets get more from jim acosta, live again at the white house this morning. what are you learning, jim? >> kate, one thing were learn and we talked to several sources familiar with this meeting yesterday between the president and those top tech leaders who are here at the white house to talk about their...

It has economic consequences beyond simply the well-being of those 20,000 people in connecticut and millions across the country who have been unemployed for record periods of time in record numbers, which is a drag on the economy. so i foresee a bipartisan effort to move forward the extension of unemployment insurance for the sake of the economy. and my hope is also that well correct one of the other regrets about this deal, which is the impact on retiree -- military retiree benpensions which is...

An all too familiar scenario. this video shot while s.w.a.t. teams secured the building room by room. >> stay in this room. >> reporter: a systematic search by police. >> on the third floor of the building they located two people down. and they located a couple of injuries. >> reporter: amazingly, operations at the medical center resumed within an hour of police clearing it. despite this being on the third flier of one of the office buildings in this very big hospital complex, the police respons...

Meeting these tech executives put out a statement saying they urged the president to move aggressively on reform. these executives from the companies and keep in mind there are a lot of customers out there, of apple, of google, of facebook, yahoo! all of the companies that are very concerned about how much domestic spying is going on and their e-mail accounts, what they google and search online and so forth and these executives did reflect that at the meeting. >> fascinating. jim acosta reportin...

And legal problem for the obama administration what to do no >> and as you heard earlier in the day when you and i were discussing this with ben wisener of the aclu, civil libertarians are arguing this is what happens when an open court discusses these things as opposed to a private fisa court. >> tomorrow president obama is meeting with a group of tech executives from google, yahoo, all the big tech companies who are not happy with this program either. they want changes made. the combination of...