Ban willt may stay on the nsa story and get your thoughts, should congress endorse or stop using intelligence efforts . The phone lines send us a tweet as well or post your comments on facebook. Com c span. You can also email us, journal cspan. Org. The may begin with the front page of the Financial Times this morning. This is their headline here is part of her statement that she put out wall street journal also with a story on their front page the New York Times closed code this morning the New York Times this morning. Then there is this in the Washington Post this morning we turn to you, should congress endorse or stop these programs . Caller. Is democratic i think the congress should take some kind of action to tighten the reins on the nsa since 9 11 and the passing of the patriot act. It has grown exponentially. Its out of control. I am hoping the congress will tighten the reins on the nsa, cut their budget. While i am on the phone, with all the controversy about spying on allies and the like, i would like to see president obama pardon jonathan thomas. Host alexander from maryland, a republican caller. Feel like theyy should not endorse spying and other countries and even our allies. I feel like its important we knwo ow whats going on. Etimes our allies can be sometimes we need to know these things. Host yunnan chancellor merkel of germany . We should continue this, even on chancellor merkel of germany . Caller yes. It can be done more professionally and carefully on how we go about doing it, instead of doing it haphazardly and im looking for the word. In a professional manner. Thats what i think. Host by that do you mean without being caught . Caller well not necessarily by being caught. If there is some type of issue that arises or flags that pop up, go aheaed and spy. If they do get caught spying and a case is brought about it the us can turn around and say, this is the reason we spied on you. Host james is next from minneapolis, a republican caller. Caller i love this, and this is hilarious. The nsa was made to spy on Foreign Countries. We get mad when we spy on ourselves, which we should. We should not get mad when we spy on Foreign Countries. That is what the nsa is for. Host a little bit more about the legislation that will be introduced today bad legislation as many of you buy aas put together republican freshman. He put out this tweet earlier yesterday. It said he has teamed up with congressmen to introduce this legislation. There is a Bipartisan Coalition of members who are going to introduce legislation to rein in the Surveillance Program. Senator Patrick Leahy and kim dems and brenner write this in Jim Sensenbrenner wrote this in politico what do you think . Should congress endorse the Surveillance Programs, or should they be stopped . Tom in, republican caller. Hello. Caller good morning. I dont think the u. S. Should spy on friends. We have no security, no private situation in our home. Some security day personnel listens to our phone. Danny in westfield, virginia. Good morning. Caller i am definitely against the nsa but the only way youll ever stop them is to shut them down completely. He may say they have stopped but they will not stop. They have done this over and over for the last 15 years. They were told to stop doing things and continue doing them anyway. It amazes me that republicans who supposedly wants Smaller Government and Less Government in our lives are absolutely in favor of continuing to have the nsa spying, even on american citizens. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the top democrat in the Senate Intelligence committee, called for a total review. Should there be a Church Committee 2. 0 as the New York Times calls it . An overhaul of the nsa . Caller absolutely but Dianne Feinstein is not the person to do it. Her biggest negotiation comes in from the defense contractors. A need to replace her with someone else like henry waxman or bernie sanders. Jonathan strong who covers congress for National Review magazine tweeted this about feinstein cause reaction feinsteins reaction thomason maryland, and republican caller. Alexander had it right on the money. We are going through a lot of politics. Obviously it is unpopular. Associate nominee good things with the word espionage. Many goodciate not things with the word s cannot show. Espionage. Going back to it alexander said, made ace s valtem and we usually have to justify things with probable cause. We are not willynilly spying on angela merkel. That is a good strategy to half. There is some intelligence if there is some intelligence we are doing legitimately, we can always fall back on it and that is pretty much what i want to say. The story in the Washington Post has the Headline Group thatbipartisan wants to rein in the nsa spying program and stop this dragnet collection of american phone calls. On the other hand you have senator Dianne Feinstein who heads the Senate Intelligence committee with mike rogers, republican who heads the house Intelligence Committee. Heres what they would do according to the Washington Post is that enough . Caller absolutely. That validate the point that i was making. You have people pushing to the extreme and dont have interest in the intelligence and defense community. They are pushing to ease the public pressure in people are trying to be more realistic and modern about it. Host what do you make of Jim Sensenbrenner, who was integral in crafting the patriot act, now saying we have to rein it in . Caller they are feeling the political pressure. Everybody wants to feel good and the public is looking back on what they did. Its lets spy on everyone but make sure everyone is a little bit happy about it, to. That is the gist of how i stand on this issue. Little bit more from the Washington Post about the legislation being crafted by the intelligence leaders. Tucker, georgia, democratic caller. Your thoughts on whether or not the congress should and doors. The nsa spying program. I endorse the spying. God bless america, if we do not spy on them they are definitely spying on us. If we can go back into history with rosenberg, i believe it was in the 30s when they sold out information to a foreign country. They were, at that time, executed. I dont understand how this and theyho is are not allowed to go over and pick him up or have him sent back to the nsa and he should sent back to the nsa. And he should be prosecuted. Elieve they should stop when they stop spying on Foreign Countries we are asking ourselves to be bombed and we go through the same thing the other countries are going through, running from bombs. Comments,e type of the questions you have about spying on u. S. Allies are sure to come up when the house Intelligence Committee meets this afternoon at 1 p. M. Eastern time. To hear testimony from the top nsa security officials, we will be covering it on cspan3 and on cspan. Org. The chairman of the committee, mike rogers, was on the sunday talk shows. He defended spying on u. S. Allies and made the case that it actually helps our allies with the United States is doing. He also tweeted this out yesterday evening 24 members of the Republican Party met with nsa officials for briefing. We will be talking to a member of the intelligence community, mike conaway from texas, coming up here on washington journal. I also want to share with you a video that was posted by the pentagon on youtube. That the nsarview director, general chief alexander, did with the pentagon blogger. Here is a story about it from msnbc. The video, which looks like a bit like the corporation for public broadcasting come a to produce an episode of waynes world inside up young young studio featuring alexander answered questions you dont hear her pose the questions, the questions are posted as they watch the video. Here is Keith Alexander, the director of the nsa, talking about the news that came out last week about the United States spying on france. [video clip] the papers convoluted these stories and they immediately say i think we had one today saying 70 million phone calls are being intercepted over a onemonth time. 70 million phone calls. I dont know how many phone calls you get a day, lets say 30. Let say they are in a foreign language, because most people speak french. It is not complicated. You need french linguists. If you did 2 million french phone calls per day, listen to them, and try to write them down, how many people would that take . A few more than two. Yes. The average analyst may be able to do one every 15 minutes. Lesse going to need about than 100,000 people just for france. France is an ally. It is absurd. A get it wrong. It has nothing to do with spying on france. The reporters who got this see this data and quickly run to the wrong conclusion. That is wrong. I am concerned that what they were doing would do great harm to our country and our allies. We have to figure out how to fix that. The other part is i think it is wrong that newspaper reporters have all these documents, 50,000 or whatever they have, and they are selling them and giving them out. We ought to come up with a way of stopping it. That is more of the courts and policymakers. From my perspective it is wrong. Host general Keith Alexander, the director of the nsa. If you want to watch the whole thing you can go to youtube. This from politico you heard the nsa director saying something needs to be done about journalists getting these documents. The general will be testifying on capitol hill before the house Intelligence Committee. That is 1 30 p. M. Eastern time on cspan3 and cspan. Org. Independent caller, hello travis. Caller frankly, i really dont care if the nsa spies on foreign leaders and merkel four leaders, foreign merkel, spanish, french. What bothers me is collecting metadata on american citizens. We have a Fourth Amendment that should put a stop to that. They are not adhering to the constitution. It is pretty telling that obama host you broke up there. Caller it is pretty telling that obama does not know anything that is going on in his federal government. He did not know anything about the irs, he had no idea that the ite wasnt going to work host we are having a hard time hearing you. The New York TimesEditorial Board weighs in the Editorial Board goes on to say this an endorsement from the New York Times on that legislation. We want to get your thoughts on what should congress do about these nsa spying programs. Should they endorse them, codified them, or should Government Shutdown the echo we are going to go to travis in louisiana, an independent caller. I think it is ridiculous that snowden knew we were spying on merkel that obama did not know. The hecked it was was the executive of the government. For him not to know anything that is going on in this government is ridiculous. I think it shows his lack of experience. The syrian thing and the redline. The nsa really needs to stop monitoring americans, especially in secret and it has no place in america. The same opinion that is Eugene Robinsons column in the Washington Post. We will keep getting your phone calls on this this morning. Notinghington times the oneyear anniversary of superstorm sandy. 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This morning my your take on whether the government should endorse or stop the nsa spying program. Don is our next caller, go ahead. Appalled at the metaData Collection on american citizens. Wasnt targeted as this mass collection. How well this mass collection is working, because if you take the boston bombers they went to, russia, they had no idea. Russia called and told us they were danger, we didnt followup on it. We did not have any kind of correspondence or any collection of any of the calls he would have made back to the United States. I think they are substituting this mass collection for good oldfashioned place worth please work we have to look into things and investigated. Host if you are interested, go watch the video on youtube put up there by the pentagon. To give theut how information to the fbi so they can follow up on it. Missouri,o jerry from a republican caller. Caller good morning. Excuse my speech. Go ahead with your comment. Caller i am opposed to spying on americans. I just think it is wrong. I dont think there is any good in it, i dont think there is anything that will come out of it out of it. Garrison new hampshire, republican caller. New hampshire, republican caller. I am opposed to the nsa spying. They should be ashamed of themselves. The department of homeland security, the nsa, they should all be removed. Congress gave away our right after 9 11. They gave their rights away to the president. That is our voice, our rights. They need to take that back and rain and the nsa and the government. They are going crazy. John is next, a republican from louisiana. A lot of the nsa spying is due to the technology. It used to be a scanner is all you had. Now it is on a global magnitude. What are they intended to target somebody, i believe that comes under the fisa court. To fact they listen something is basically because they can. It would be physically impossible to analyze, to the degree that people think it is being analyzed, all of that data. On the other story, which has been echoed on collars and other things, i am one of those that is skeptical that the president did not know about this. Go back to fast and furious, benghazi, the irs, it is almost like he has the Sergeant Schultz of i know nothing. Dianne feinstein is time to provide cover to support that idea. I find it hard to believe the commanderinchief knew nothing about this. It does not make any sense. It does not pass the smell test. It will all come out in the end. I think. I dont know. Congress doesnt seem to be doing much of anything, especially when it comes to this. And we are going to come up with something new. Thank you, cspan, you do a wonderful job. Are you going to be watching the hearing . Im retired, i am a cspan junkie. I recorded it or i watch it. You get to see the real people saying the real things. I will be. If i dont watch it i will record it so i can watch it later. Span3, itorded on c span3. Record it on c the house set to vote on two bills that are reported by wall street that is action slated for the house this week. Chronicle courtesy of the museum then the Arizona Republic their front page this morning Richmond Times dispatch on the virginia governors race and president obama will be stumping for Terry Mcauliffe on sunday for the election of that state policy next governor. That states next governor. Jesse is up next on the lines. Caller i think they should keep spying. Average americans dont know how safe they are because of spying. On theme not spying they are definitely spying on us. The average american does not know how safe they are . Caller exactly. Host next from texas, a republican caller. What are your thoughts he e thought seattle caller thoughts . Caller i dont have anything with spying. It should be else with the agency in congress about what they can and cant do. My main concern is because of the move toward more socialism and more control over people in and openmaintain roads bigger agendas, all of that information is going to be used at later times. Buildings are being built to house an incredible amount of information. Down the road, it is inconceivable this kind of thing that could be done. How many actual terror attacks are espionage. Good information has been received as a result of this particular act. Insidious kindn of encroachment. I dont want to sound like a theorist, there is a lot of proof of government continuing and continuing. There is absolutely no stopping it. Otherset me show you and a bit mor