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The first question is, often, what did the president know and when did he know it? well, recently, the white house has said the president -- president obama didnt know about the irs targeting tea party groups, that he was out of the loop on nsa eavesdropping, and the latest episode, not knowing about the technical problems plaguing the obama care website before its october 1 launch date. so is the president being shielded by his own staff? lets bring in presidential historian allen lickman, a pr...

Welcome back. the do nothing president hand off passive out of touch referred to dwight eisenhower. that was a knock on him and calvin coolidge and george h.w. bush. when they were accused of micromanaging like jimmy carter or being out of the loop, bystanders to their own presidency. back in the panel were joined now by david gergen who has worked with presidents both republican and democrat since the nixon administration. what do you make of this? is he a bystander president? >> i think he has...

Put on mount rushmore with his eyes closed by the way. no doubt well intentioned statements. i will say this i go along with his most ardent disciples and deem the president to be perpetually out of the loop. he knows nothing about nothing. >> now, one of the things that president obama didnt know about is that the nsa was spying on merkel of germany and some french guys. we discussed this last week. is it conceivable that he didnt know that anhala was being spied upon? >> well, like i said, im ...

President of the united states is intentionally, you know, kept out of the loop, but tapping the phones of good friends of the united states, world leaders here, do you buy this notion that the president did not know about it? >> no, absolutely not. every time in the cia we ran into a friend of the president or a contact even, we immediately called up the white house and said, hey, theres a crisscross of contacts here. same way with the secretary of state. called him up, say, were listening in o...

Together or saying time-out, were not ready? >> reporter: historians say sometimes presidents are kept out of the loop for their own protection. take ronald reagan and the iran contra scandal. >> there are some things they probably need deniability on, for example, the government does spy on other nations. >> reporter: at the same time hesz says chancellor merkel may be the least of mr. obamas problems. >> clearly the question of what now we call obama care, thats a loop he had better be in beca...

A member of the gang of eight, heads of the intelligence committees supposed to be in the loop. is it a giant conspiracy? when the president is pretending to be out of the loop and allies? i dont think so. i think what we have and we touched on this last segment. keith alexander running oversight surveillance and complete vacuuming up of so much information, they cant even keep track. i want to play one thing from the general on his reaction to all of this, which hasnt gotten enough attention. l...

Absolutely no doubt that that is a baseball town. seahawks rams tickets going for 10 bucks just before kick-off. world highlights on that game as well. we want to start this morning with the nsa. this morning its not just americas allies who are upset over the agencys wiretapping. one of the staunchest backers, diane feinstein now calling for a full review of the mass data collection at home and abroad. the california democrat who chairs the senate intelligence committee says shes totally oppos...

Reportedly out of the loop. the nsa out of the loop compared to obviously some of their targets. the only loop that seems to work here is at the nsa itself, where you have 25,000 employees working on a bunch of important security stuff and a bunch of other stuff, which if you believe the president, is nonessential. and is not part of our security because it can be stopped and started at will for diplomatic other other reasons. isnt there a larger problem here of an agency that is so large, even ...

Full review of all of their surveillance programs. she quote, totally opposed to spying on u.s. allies and adds congress has not been kept in the loop. feinsteins counterpart, republican susan collins agrees in a statement she says, she notes theres no justification for collecting intel on leaders of our closest allies and said she will meet with the german ambassador tonight to say she is opposed to the phone tapping. we begin with capitol hill correspondent kelly odonnell. the hearing is in a ...