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Border this afternoon, underscoring how important both parties view the immigration issue. Defense secretary lloyd austin facing tough questions from lawmakers about his secret cancerrelated hospitalization during the holiday season. The Biden Administration is raising National Security concerns that china could Spy On Americans through Chinese Technology in electric and connected cars. The Commerce Secretary will be here to explain. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington. The Supr...

>> yes, i realize. some people abuse it. dr. tiller would oos a health exception. i understand that. life exceptions can be abused. i understand the point. >> is the main conversation about whether we should be funding planned parenthood. >> it is and we got to that. the reason i asked governor walker about that, thats where it is. >> a president has a lot of power over these issues in terms of what he pushes and what he doesnt. hell get hit by that by hillary clinton. stand by. ill get to you i...

Support. and so this is sort of the extortion to foil the lawsuit. >> you think you will so the case settled actually. >> i dont know. i will not go to trial. >> i dont know. i think may want to say, lets go to trial and -- >> exactly. he has more money -- >> reconvene when we settle it. >> all right, stick around. thank you both, very much. >> my pleasure. >> disturbing report on some of americas wounded veterans and we learn veterans affairs employees got billions in bonuses while our veterans...

Plot to blow up the new york stock exchange was disrupted. the planners arrested an convicted, thanks in part to a secret monitoring program. thats one of two new terror plots intelligence officials declassified for a hastily arranged congressional hearing hoping to prove government surveillance is worth it. >> these programs are critical to the intelligence communitys ability to protect our nation and our allys security. they assist the intelligence community efforts to connect the dots. >> rep...

>> reporter: intelligence officials described safeguards, preserving civil liberties while tracking millions of phone numbers, records dates and number of calls. >> do they have the ability to listen to their phone calls or read their e-mails under these two program. >> no we do not have the authority. >> does the technology exist at the nsa to flip a switch by analysts to listen to americans phone calls or read their e-mails. >> no. >> reporter: this lawmaker was unconvinced. >> the verizon dis...

To the intelligence communitys ability to protect our nation and our allies security. they assist the intelligence community efforts to connect the dots. it usually meets in private. especially when top intelligence officials testify. it speaks volumes about how newly reported systems are to the community and to lawmakers who oversee it all, trying to calm their constituents concerns. >> does the nsa have the ability to listen to americans phone calls or read these e-mails unthese two programs...

Open and were supposed to have our privacy, but we dont have any privacy and the governments totally secret. and then they campaign this with what they do with the irs? maybe thats how they line up their targets in the irs, they modify, you know, they check on our phone calls and find out what kind of business deals were doing, so we can audit them and all these kinds of things, its totally out of control. >> it may be, but the reality is, the new pugh research center tracking millions of americ...

Our privacy, but we dont have any privacy and the governments totally secret. and then they campaign this with what they do with the irs? maybe thats how they line up their targets in the irs, they modify, you know, they check on our phone calls and find out what kind of business deals were doing, so we can audit them and all these kinds of things, its totally out of control. >> it may be, but the reality is, the new pugh research center tracking millions of americans said the following, is it a...

Immigration reform. but if you go back jus to may, his speech at the national defense university, that was to talk about drones. he laid more of it out and tried to explain it. candidate obama said he was going to have his attorney general scrub everything was bush was doing and throw out anything that was invading civil liberties. but its his own base. you have rob paul, rand paul, youdal and widen and a libertarian saying lets have a public debate about this. if the president doesnt try to get...

That would be needed, tracking millions of peoples educational back grounds. if the law gets change skpd officials track and store that information how valuable of a tool could a score card be? >> well, look, i think president obama is exactly right that health of american democracy depends on bringing greater access to higher education. the cost of higher education is a major concern. so consumers which is to say perspective students and parents really deserve a better knowledge of what they ar...