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President obama met with honchos from tech companies about how to improve the web site after its disastrous launch in october. todays meeting included executives from microsoft and apple, facebook and twitter, and others. our ed henry is the main man at the white house and is live this afternoon. why are they just now bringing g in people from private business? you think that i would have tried this in the beginning when they were getting slapped around? >> reporter: i asked jay carney the quest...

Gone to congress or the inspector general. this is very much a vindication for snowden, for lynn greenwald, the people who supported him. eating crow is something i have done before and i expect ill -- >> it works better with ketchup. >> yes, indeed. >> given the ruling, we know the tech executives are meeting with the president today. id like to be a fly on the wall. >> i think theyre very much related. because you look at the pressures on the president right now. these tech executives dont lik...

Im just wondering if we brought advanced copies of "house of cards." >> you want a little cameo? >> well, i wish things were that way. man, this guy is getting a lot of stuff done. >> the president a "house of cards" fan. thaf that was the president with some of the countrys top tech executives. he was talking about the show "house of cards." the president is meeting with leaders from apple, yahoo! facebook and google and theyre supposed to be talking about the performance of healthcare.gov but ...

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 this court ruling, the corporate unhappiness, some of our allies unhappiness, it certainly seems like there might be so...

Some of these issues tomorrow at the white house with. so top tech executives. republican versus republican. the budget bill that passed last week is now running into opposition in the senate. there are 50 votes needed to pass. still, the deal is expected to pass, but its already it caused a big split within the republican party. last week john boehner chided republican conservatives who opposed the bill. >> i think john has got his irish up. he was frustrated that these groups came out in opp...

Few minutes during the white house press briefing this meeting is still on going. if you do the math, thats two hours that this meeting has been going on here at the white house. not all of that time with the president, but wolf, there was a light moment at the beginning of that meeting between the president and these tech executives when the president said that he would like to have an advanced copy of the second season of "house of cards" and wondering if any he of the executives brought it wi...

Really about. >> well, you know, i think what youre seeing this morning here at the white house, suzanne, is these tech executives are reflecting a lot of the feelings that americans are having right now and reflecting the feelings of the federal judge who issued the scathing ruling about the phone records being collected over at the national security agency. these executives, these companies wrote a letter to the president last week complaining about some of this saying the balance of security ...

Behind congress. he has fallen but hasnt fallen that far. >> nobody is as unpopular as congress is. >> hard to beat that. >> its down to blood relatives and staff. >> if you want to get an idea of how frustrated obama is with the year he had and his inability to get anything done, i dont know if you saw it, today he was joking with the tech executives and told the guy from netflix he made a positive comment about the kevin spacey character in "house of cards." who by the way is a murderer. >> ki...

Here tomorrow with a slew of top tech executives from companies like apping, facebook, twitter and netflix. they are going to talk about the nsa issue and healthcare.gov, undoubtedly some officials here wish that happened before now. the critical senate vote on the budget compromise is scheduled for tomorrow. this evening chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel tells us about a important bill with tepid support. >> the pressure is on senior democratic leadership to deliver votes for the...

And the nsas incompetence, to this day, i dont think anyone knows for sure what snowden took. and certainly, we dont know what the chinese and the russians have gotten out of this since thats where he was, in hong kong and now in russia. thats what makes this situation so difficult to remedy, because its not clear whats out there. but certainly as tomorrows meeting illustrates, the president may be interested in making some changes both for legal and political reasons that the the status quo is ...