Government surveillance are expected together on the 12th anniversary of the patriot act. That is where we let to begin with you. Where we want to begin with you. With european leaders calling for new restrictions on such actions, we are opening up our phone lines to you this morning. How concerned should america be about the government spying on foreign allies and partners . That is our question for you. Republicans can call at 202585 3881. 3880. Rats, 202585 882. Pendents, 2025853 you can also catch us on your favorite social media, twitter and facebook. Or you can email us at journal cspan. Org. That story on u. S. Spying on its allies, revelations about the u. S. Listening in on phone conversations of World Leaders. Are some papers from around the world, the front page of the Guardian Newspaper shows german canceler german chancellor angulo Merkel Angela merkel. Here is a german newspaper talking about the nsa efforts. That is angulo Merkel Angela merkel and some of the folk she has been in contact with. The headline of the Washington Post this morning ash this morning the story goes on to note we want to get your thoughts and comments. Already coming in on our Facebook Page this morning, www. Facebook. Com cspan, derek writes in we will be taking your thoughts on that subject throughout our first 40 five minutes of the washington journal today. As those conversations going on between a merkel and hollande, this story happening courtesy of foreign policies you can find it online on Foreign Policys the cable. We are opening our for months to talk about this subject. Our phone lines to talk about the subject. Peter is first from cambridge, massachusetts on our line for democrats. Good morning. Caller that is brookline, massachusetts. Have called into washington journal on this topic before, this nsa spying. Every time i hear you focus on it i get angrier and angrier. I get less and less surprised but i get more angry and more furious. Host why is that . Loyal obama a supporter. I voted for him twice. We wanted a change from the Banana Republic years of george w. Bush, with the u. S. Department of justice roaming free, eavesdropping and snooping with the patriot act. It ought to be repealed. I heard you say it is the 12th anniversary. Its bad enough that this spyingent would abandon on american citizens on their cell phones, internet, and their communications and library records. That is bad enough. We need to get a coalition to fight terrorism. I am all in favor of that. To spy on these allies like west germany and france and great written, that is even worse. What kind of message are we sending to the western world . Host here is a column by gideon rockman today in the Financial Times would you agree with that statement . Caller not this american and not Many Americans in my area around boston and across this country. We ought to have a civilian uprising to defeat these policies of snooping. One brief final comment and then on september 11 we all realize that the western under attack by these islamic militants and al qaeda and their allies. They wouldve gone after the eiffel tower and brandenburg gate. Working with our allies. I am all in favor with that. To spy on that is outrageous. Host we appreciate the call. One is the big story today the wire this morning there is a picture of edward snowden, the source of these leaks. The story, in part we are getting your thoughts. We will go to our independent line. From pittsburgh, pennsylvania, claude thank you to washington journal. Thank you for letting us voice our opinion. It is something that madison and the Founding Fathers were putting together, this republican emphasis on allowing the citizenry to voice their view and host what is your view on their view. Host what is your view . Caller pretty much inline with the previous caller. I think our poor i think our Foreign Policy a nightmare waiting to happen. We are engendering the hatred and the disgust of the world, friends and enemies. We seem to want to blame the arabs for everything, blaming actions policies and that have nothing to do with them. The media is extremely biased. The apathy and lafarge he of the senate and congress who will not take a stand and lafarge he and lethargy of the senate and congress who will not take a stand. Rock obama is only one third of the government. Barack obama is only one third of the government. They will not do anything to challenge the spectral interest the special interests. We need to come together and bring some form of cooperative venture with our allies and our adversaries because it is going to blow up if we continue on this insane course. Host let me ask you, some of the papers noting this in ,days the New York Times many of the european complaints seem to be directed at a domestic audience and may not result in concrete changes to the relationship with the u. S. That has weathered so many storms. Some of these folks overseas notice spying is going on all the time. Do you agree with that . Caller you are speaking with someone who has no expertise in the field. Eavesdrop on our citizenry doesnt say much about those who but we dontle, seem to be indicting them and bringing them to justice. They should be identified. We think snowden did an excellent job of bringing this kind of the cage and in moral, unjustifiable policy and in moral this kind of the immoral, and unjustifiable policy. Host a tweet one other tweet this morning from steve we are taking your calls and comments this morning on the subject. We will go to stephen from las vegas, nevada on our line for republicans. Good morning. Caller i heard the last couple of callers. Is, i used to be a volunteer shop people do not have that Business Leadership or Customer Service training coming up through high school. What i found out is that the fbi has to get approval to tap anybodys phones. Im not too sure about the internet, but cell phones anyway. I have been thinking about merkel the last couple of days. From is not anybody immune that type of telecommunication tapping and internet stuff in the whole world. Learning how to trade stocks on the internet and building a business plan, it just makes sense. Until there is technology to stop interference from other people tapping in, you just have to be more intelligent about those types of things. As we noted, todays the 12th anniversary of the patriot act. There is a rally against mass surveillance that is scheduled to take place today. Stationont of union here in washington dc. Heres the website for that rally. That is expected to happen at noon. Along with that website, several celebrities participated in a video they posted about the nsa efforts. I want to play you a bit of that video now. [video clip] intersection and collection of call detail records and internet traffic including audio, video, photograph, documents, chat logs, and emails. Every american is at risk of getting caught up in the an assay traffic. Including average citizens not suspected of a crime. We have also learnt the largescale collaboration with telecom giants, internet companies, and service providers. Some concern email providers chose to shut their doors rather than pay government subpoenas to hand over their users. Does the nsa let any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans cap go no, of americans . No, sir. We have had too much secrecy in this country. Actorseveral hollywood joining that video, promoting that rally that is happening at noon today. This is the 12th anniversary of the patriot act. We are taking your calls and comments about some of these revelations this week about spying on allies and how it is actually affecting u. S. Relationships with its allies. The newe story from york times we will go to larry from knoxville tennessee on our line for democrats. What do you think about this subject . Caller good morning. I think this just brings the Congress Needs to stop trying to defund obamacare and cook up some new laws that would take care of these problems. Iieve that anything believe it was the Supreme Court decision. Anybody can grab it because it was there. Congress needs to enact new laws to prevent this from happening. I think they all spy on one another. I think that is a major concern. Host in other headline on this in the Financial Times we will go to and you on the phone for wisconsin on our line we will go to intro the phone on her line for democrats we will go to andrew on the phone from wisconsin. We will go onto charles from roseville, tennessee on our line for republicans. Good morning. Morning this is charles from rogersville, tennessee. I am presently in a va hospital in tennessee. I was laying here watching you. You are on, when i was in the air force back in the 70s, i flewmiddle aircraft speed everybody stop aircrafts. Everybody spies on everybody. Of the problem is we have a president the problem is we have a president with no leadership. No one in the world even fears us anymore. Get back to a later that is for the people of the United States. When he look looks at an airman or marine, he knows what it looks like. This man does not know what he is doing in the white house. It is pretty evident that he is taking over 16 of our economy by taking over the house taking over the Health Insurance. I have been a Health Insurance agent for 25 years. I had to shut down my business because of of obamacare. The employees in my office, we. Ust got letters no one is going to be able to be covered after the 31st of december. A lot of my clients that are insured through the years have been bombarded. All of them are losing their insurance or it is doubling and tripling. I think leadership in the white house is a problem. Host he brings up the subject of the healthcare law that has caused so much controversy. Here at the front page of the Washington Post that story in several of the papers around the country today. It was also the subject of some comments by texas senator ted cruz. Ted cruz spoke at the iowa reagan dinner about the Affordable Care act. Front page of the Houston Chronicle health site fix. Cruzs comments, calling it a disaster and a train wreck. [video clip] one of the things we congress in the fight over obamacare is we elevated the National Debate over what a disaster, over what a train wreck, how much obamacare is hurting millions of americans all across this country. Is called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act. It does not provide tech divide protection. It is not affordable. Doesit is denying not provide protection, it is not affordable, and it is denying care to millions of americans. If you log onto the website you have to be very patient. [applause] collectively, millions of americans have made the case that obama care is not working, that it is the number one job killer in this country. Millions ofg americans to lose their job. Young people are not finding jobs because of obamacare. Single moms across this country are being forced to work part time, trying to feed their kids on 29 hours a week because of obamacare. Hardworking families that are struggling to provide families for their children are getting skyrocketed Health Care Insurance premiums because of obamacare. People all over this country right now are getting notifications that their Health Insurance is being canceled because of obamacare. If you want to read more about the contractor that was tapped to fix the problems with the healthcare website, that story isnt todays Washington Post todaysn todays washingotton post we are talking about u. S. Efforts to spy on their allies. Revelations about phones being tapped, World Leaders we will go to larry from tennessee on our line for democrats. Good morning. The fellow from rogersville and ted cruz. Could see more with the president is doing but they are putting their whole that putting their hoods on backwards. Putting their hoods on backwards. If your neighbor is cooking method, do you not want to know yet if the guy behind you is a pedophile, you dont want to know . About there talking weject of spying and caller are seeing transparency and transparency. We dont want to know what mexico or merkel is inking . Is thinking . Ignorance is bliss but i do not want to be that happy. People want to stay in the dark and bring everything and blame everything on the black guy. You are not living where i am living. Host maria is up next from westville, new jersey. Feel that it is hypocrisy on part of the europeans to be complaining. If anybody wants to they can google an agreement for world war ii still in effect. Australia, britain, canada, new zealand, and the United States, and gives them more access to the private workings of our citizens that even the nsa. We have a nice Little Network of their. If thiso also say that results in hampering our trade agreements, i say hurray for that and for that. Our president is not using his power to add great favorable trade agreements. We have somebody who does not protect our borders. I think we ought to bring our troops home and take care of the United States first. Host is there a little bit of everybody does this in terms of spying on their allies . Caller yes. What shocks me the most is that our government we have to hark back to our founding thisrs, who warned against. We have to be independent. All of this partnership has brought Us Bankruptcy and hatred. I fear for our country. We have to come home and take care of our own. Host that is maria this morning. The Los Angeles Times lead editorial talked about this subject of that everybody does it. The lead editorial starts with we will go now to john on our line for republicans from arlington, virginia. This is just hypocrisy. It is a little on our side. Nobody seems to remember back in the spring with all the talk china was doing about over here. Id dont hear anybody i didnt hear anybody say then that everybody does it. Guys wondering where these iswhere it really hurts us tapping the german chancellor and then have some jerk come onto the oreilly show, impairing her with the fuehrer comparing her with the fuehrer. I think that at insult to injury. The brazilians are upset. It is a National Pride thing when you spy on the leader of a country. You can say we are looking for information about terrorism. When they spy on the phone calls of these leaders that are supposedly our friends, that is not a great idea. As i said, a lot of people do it, but earlier in the year he did not hear that attitude at all. Heres the twitter page of glenn greenwald, columnist from , who hasian been working with edward snowden. His latest post as europe a reps over spying, nsa chief says government must stop the media we are taking your calls and comments on this subject this morning. We will go to steve in ft. Worth texas on our line for democrats. Good morning. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I think this whole issue of spying is indicative of a lack of sound leadership, where we have a government that has proven themselves to be incapable of a cop pushing anything in a worldclass standard. We have no standards as a government. Our leaders are nothing more than criminals. They are not worthy of their position. I have no respect for them. If they dont resigned i think people in this country should overthrow them. They cannot get obamacare to work, they cannot get our economy to work. What do people do . I never spied on my friends. I do not trust my government, therefore i dont think i want them to lead my country. Maryland up next on our line for independents. The biggest shock i find in this debate is that americans are actually shocked us is happening. We left this group. They have their own world. Hey have been going on forever americans are naive. They are worried about their sports and beer. They dont want to hear anything else. A want to use any excuse to continue the status quo. Think thating to people dont know this happens all the time. I grew up in the 60s. That is how it is. We let it happen. Host a few more posts on our Facebook Page. Sharon writes in below that, George Franks writes those are posts on our Facebook Page. You can also catch up on twitter and callin on the subject. A few other news items i want to point out for you today. Yesterday, the president was ed an innovative screw innovative brooklyn to School Brooklyn school. This is the same school the president praised in his state of the Union Address earlier this year. Theelivered a message about urgency of education reform in the global economy. One of the other things he addressed in that speech was the cost of college education, that is something we are going to be cocking about an hour later segments today on washington journal. I want to play you a clip of the president yesterday afternoon. [video clip] at the moment the cost of Higher Education keeps going up. We need to make sure were doing everything we can to reduce the burden of Student Loans on young people. Here is how much two years of college will cost students and their families, zero. Nothing. [applause] i noticed the parents were the first to clap. [laughter] they like that. That is a huge burden. That is thousands of dollars you are saving. When you start working, you are going to have that much less of a burden in terms of debt, which means you can afford to buy a house sooner, you can afford to start your business sooner. That kind of attitude