lead on this. and the germanys have told cnn that the head of the domestic intelligence unit and the international intelligence unit from germany will be heading to the u.s. in a couple of weeks. now, the national security agency, the nsa has confirmed that and has released a statement about this. it says we understand that germany officials plan to travel to washington in the coming weeks and that the u.s. government looks forward to meeting with them. we expect a range of meetings with officials across the agency but we do not have specific meetings to announce at this point. i think what's important about this is that the u.s. is trying to get maybe a little bit ahead of this, fredericka, because germany has been very much at the forefront the last 48 hours or so by showing the anger of this country and others in europe, france and spain, as well, and looking for some kind of reaction out of the u.s. president obama has said he spoke with angela merkel on wednesday assuring her they are