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President has handled the surveillance issues. the president scores worse on this issue than president bush did, about you its worth noting an interesting wrinkle here, a narrow majority jt americans do approve of the nsas surveillance programs broadly, but they disapprove of the presidents leadership on them, on this issue. this probably has to do with another point. they think the government is getting too big and too y john? >> interesting. jessica yellin in northern ireland with a picturesqu...

In history. do you see it that way? >> you know the answer. transparency is not there. >> he hasnt been transparent since day one. >> hes been as nontransparent as any president before him. hes very much said one thing, done another. >> coming up, which kind of terror plots were stopped by the controversial spying program? we get closer to the answer, next.

Authority to spend this money if not appropriated by congress. bill: sarah hall ingram is in the middle of all this mess with the i.r.s. in cincinnati, she was supposed to run all this. >> that is a big problems. the republicans know who this woman is. do you think they want to fund a new agency at the i.r.s. that is being headed up by the same person who was in charge of all the abuses that took place? i dont think that is going to happen. bill: they call that a sticky weubgt. steven moore, str...

From the nsa on terror plots reportedly disrupted by programs that monitor our phone call records and e-mails. national security correspondent jennifer grithe pentagon with t latest. >> hi, megyn. the self-proclaimed nsa laker, edward snowden is taking readers questions. we have no way to verify its him. heres an example of questions hes asked. a reader asks him to define what he mean by having direct access and can analysts listen to domestic calls without a warrant? the reality is this, if a n...

Progress was essential to peace. of course, those were prepared remarks at the belfast water front. well meet with david cameron and this evening well have private talks with russian president vladimir putin where its expected the two leaders will discuss the escalating conflict in syria. from the reception he got in northern ireland he seems to be wildly popular there. in terms of that popularity only 36% of europeans approve of the presidents job performance, thats down 11% from 2009. the de...

That simply providing weapons will not change the battlefield equation. >> the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, democrat robert menendez, on whether the president has come to the table too late with too little. plus all worlds a stage. christie, clinton, rubio, paul, and bush -- the 2016ers in the spotlight. our free wheeling panel offers an early review. and then a fathers day special. >> i was definitely going to be my fathers all-american linebacker. >> a bipartisan sal...

States and in more than 20 countries around the world. the document also details the intelligence communitys assertion that one of the thwarted attacks was the 2009 plot to blow up the new york city subway system. now, because of nsa phone tracking, it says that the u.s. intelligence was able to discover a pakistan terrorist was in contact with someone in the u.s., conspiring to carry out the attack. the nsa tipped off the fbi, and najibullah zazi and his co-spirco co-conspirators were arrested ...

The administration havent made it an important or a vigorous enough defense of it. he thinks its vital in terms of continuing to disrupt terror plots. >> and about the aclu suing and the critics, his view? >> he just thinks theyre wrong. i asked him specifically about rand paul and other republicans. he said look at this program and some of the information has come out from the nsa overnight. only 300 specific phone numbers were actually accessed all of last year. yes, they collect all those dat...

Than people thought it would. happy fathers day. >> thank you very much. >> shannon: good to see you. north korea makes an offer to washington, regarding its nuclear program. how the administration is responding, right after the break and the data mining controversy. new documents show surveillance thwarted dozens of potential terror plots. i will find out if its balancing privacy rights against the efforts to protect you. a happy fathers day to all the dads out there. heres a look at our dads o...

Civil rights issue. in a justice system where the majority of official practices have a discriminatory impact, just about anything that system touches will become a civil rights issue. that is our show for today. i want to thank you all for watching. i want to thank melissa for having me here. and she will be back next saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. dont miss that. now its time for a preview of "weekends with alex witt" hosted today by mara. what have you got? >> ari, thank you so much. new inf...