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 world's a stage. christie, clinton, rubio, paul, and bush -- the 2016ers in the spotlight. our free wheeling panel offers an early review. and then a father's day special. >> i was definitely going to be my father's all-american linebacker. >> a bipartisan salute to dad. i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." under fire for two weeks now. the nsa is defending their data collection programs. in a three-page document sent to congress and obtained by cnn, the spy agency argues that in recent years the programs have disrupted dozens of terror plots in more than 20 countries, and despite having collected billions of phone records,