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Confidence in, but weve also got to do it in a way that recognizes we have hostile folks out there that will potentially try to do us harm. >> hostile folks out there and in washington, d.c. for more on how the presidents comments will play in washington we bring in john king. good morning. >> good morning. >> we took two beats on the nsa with the president, asking whether or not he feels he knows everything going on, whether he is confident in what he says about the way the nsa conducts busin...

Know, the complexity and the pressure of that office. but nevertheless, the issues of privacy, the issues of civil liberties that are dear to the american people are tenets that he supported as a senator and to some extent as a candidate. so, one has to worry that, you know, taking the issue of looking in, listening in on the american people as a dragnet and as a wholesale without due process, without judicial review in the full context of the word, its worrisome and i think the word hypocritica...

Introduction sort of introduction. >> im honored. >> so you are here because i know you are pushing this transparency issue that you fought for in the banking reform bill. you only got 64 votes in the senate. >> right. >> so of course it didnt become law. >> well, it kind of became law. lets start with what were talking about here. were talking about how our financial system is kind of rigged and talking about you know those moodys, standard and poors. >> tell you this is a good investment. >> g...

>> im honored. >> so you are here because i know you are pushing this transparency issue that you fought for in the banking reform bill. you only got 64 votes in the senate. >> right. >> so of course it didnt become law. >> well, it kind of became law. lets start with what were talking about here. were talking about how our financial system is kind of rigged and talking about you know those moodys, standard and poors. >> tell you this is a good investment. >> gave aaa ratings to financial produc...

Either the television networks. or cable networks. the major newspapers and major websites. news websites. they dont do it. and its going to be very rare that they will in the future. and i guarantee you that whatever the next administration is like, its going to be even more down this road than the obama administration already is. >> well, and, howard, yeah, i just want to bring it back to transparency a little bit. i dont care about the golf game at all. i think thats much ado about nothing an...

We said earlier, i think most of us agree, we believe martha will do a good job. its a transparency issue. >> its a bigger issue. >> its a bigger issue, and thats abc news, not on martha so much. but you say pretty much nothing to see here. >> well, look. i mean, its better to disclose these things than to not disclose them. the idea that youd have a personal connection to one of the people on the major party tickets and not disclose it, look, you should put that out there so people can draw the...

Talk about governor romneys tax runs rather than the issues that matter to voters such as putting americans back do work, fixing the economy and pulling in the spending." 24 hours ago the white house spokesman carney was batting back questions of vice president bidens gaffes by saying, this is what the romney campaign wants to talk about, distractions, and the president wants to talk about the economy and big issues. here we are, 24 hours later, the obama camp throws out this letter and romney s...

Completely wrong in that i think the biggest problem is the transparency issue and that hes contributing so much more to cross roads gps. if i could point out one of the great ironnys going on here, when romney talks about the great threats to america besides a second term for barack obama, a nuclear iran and what? the economic mite of china. where is sheldon adelson gotten all of his money from? >> coming here. >> i think thats suf a great irony. because of what the court decisions say, you can...

Of money. >> it depends on the billiona e billionaire. go ahead, karen. >> look what was happening over the last several weeks with alec with whats come forward about what theyve done with the stand your ground laws and voter i.d. laws. people found out that coca-cola and pepsico, who were able to sell their products in the area they were targeting, they said, im not going to buy coca-cola. so you had corporations who had to end their membership. you lose a lot of power, potentially, if your cus...

Answers. martha: well, the presidents been challenged on that transparency issue now a number of times. im glad to be joined now by senator charles grassley, hes the ranking member on the senate judiciary committee. good morning, sir, good to have you with us. >> good morning. martha: what was your reaction? jay carney came out at the white house press briefing and said, you know, weve done our investigation over the weekend, we have cleared white house staff and administration staff of any pote...