Us on facebook or twitter. Finally, send an email. We get to your calls, here is some of the news from overnight. Tom coburn will not serve out the rest of his term. On thursday night that he will not serve the rest to steperm and intends down because of deepening health problems. In his statement, he acknowledged that he is battling a recurrent cancer and will continue to fight for his priorities are in the remainder of his time in office. Both carolyn and i have been touched by the encouragement we have been received, he said. As a citizen, he is convinced that he can best serve his children and grandchildren as shifting his focus elsewhere. He notified aides earlier in the day. Earlier in denied the evening. The decision to resign marks a shift in his plans from an interview earlier this month. He said he had believed he was healthy enough to serve out his term, but acknowledged that circumstances could change. The decision will be made in conjunction with family as to how to best implement things. Willdo not think i can, i not, he said at the time. From the hill this morning, there is a new supporter of medical marijuana here he read. Harry reid. He thinks there is some medical reason for marijuana. Heed knowledge acknowledged that the issue has changed over time. The Senate Approved 1. 1 million spending bill 1. 1 trillion spending bill on thursday evening after conservative assistance collapsed in the senate. Ted cruz dropped his assistance on a vote insistence on a vote for funding president obamas health care plan. Voted to cut off debate and adopted the bill, which keeps the government funded through september. And from the Financial Times limitorning, republicans the debt limit. There is a fragile mood of compromise in congress. The bipartisan budget deal calls for republicans to lift Borrowing Limits quickly. There is a weakened tea party and the 1. 1 trillion budget that passed on wednesday. The senate also passed that. The u. S. Is expected to reach its Borrowing Limit on february 7. From politico this morning, robert gates hires back at here he read over the criticism. Harry gates fired back at reid, saying that it is common practice on the hill to vote on bills that you have not read. It is clear that senator reed has not read the book. Has not read the book. There was an interview that was done with mike allen at politico you can watch him live tonight on cspan 2 at 6 30. Rogan. A book tv he will be in philadelphia and it will be live. It will reair on sunday night. From the Washington Post, the lead story is that malachi asks the u. S. For more whaea pons. Would like u. S. Troops to train counterterrorism forces. The iraqi leader says that he has a wish list. U. S. Officials say it might be easy to develop deliver those weapons, including assault rifles, to baghdad soon. As the lead story in the Washington Post. Reform speech that the president is giving at 11 a clock. That is our topic of conversation this morning. We want to get your views on what you would like to hear from the president grid you can see the numbers up there on your screen. This article is in politico. The public is all over the map on nsa. Matt, from the Huffington Post grid what should we expect to hear from the president . Guest well, it has been a pretty he has been pretty poised so far. The main thrust of what we have heard so far things could change is that the president will breach the spirit of reform while only making minor, incremental changes. Biggeriving the decisions back to congress. Host what are those incremental decisions . Guest he could place new limits on the collection of phone data. That was the most controversial program. That would be around the edges. He will not shift the collection of this data to telecoms. He will introduce new Privacy Protections. Course, another one of the most controversial revelations from snowden was that we got a he europeans upset could push for some constitutional advocate. Host a lot of the talk and recommendations deal with section 215, what is that . Guest that is the section of the patriot act that the nsa has used to allow them to scoop up our phone records invoke. Bulk. Thank you fordge, updating us on the president s speech. That will be live. Now we want to hear from you. What do you think the president should say when it comes to nsa reform . Here are a couple of articles that appeared this morning. The public remains all over the map on nsa tactics. The president is not the only one struggling to balance programs. The public cannot make up its mind. Most americans may be fine handing over their personal data , but they are still not sure what to make of secret Government Operations gobbling of raw telephone records and emails. Makes it moreage difficult for politicians to coalesce around policy. On the one hand, Public Opinion polls show a willingness among ,he public to trade off privacy if it means stopping the bad guys. Most would rather it be someone else. ,eople are all over the map according to a democrat from north dakota, a longtime critic of the nsa clandestine work. This is the lead story in the wall street journal. Write that obama wrestles with spy overhaul. Addresst Barack Obamas on friday will be a key step in his reexamination of post 9 11 security practices. Designed toess restructure terrorism policies and shore up his credibility before he leaves office. Beachighly anticipated that follows a sixmonth review of spying programs, he is expected to extend privacy extensions to nonus citizens and evaluate sensitive surveillance, particularly involving foreign leaders. He washursday evening, still wrestling with the most controversial question. Bulko manage the nsas collection of telephone data. That is still the trickiest issue of the decisions that he still have to finalize. Mr. Obama is said to call on congress to work with him on determining where the data should be stored. His own Advisory Panel recommended that the storage role shifts from the nsa. The phone companies or another thirdparty a little bit from the wall street journal, jimmy is following from san antonio on the democrats line. What do you think today . Caller first of all, happy new year. I wish everyone the best. Been i have a green badge. I have had that for four years. Host what is that . A securityan badge that gets you into different facilities. Host you have a clearance . Caller i have worked in , as far as installation and design, and i have had access to all of the security information that i wanted. I was jailed or fined up to five rs after i retired host what would you like to hear the president say about surveillance today . Caller it is important. It is important that we do it. It is important that what we do be kept secret. You give blabbermouths in congress and people that do not have green badges talking about things that they do not know exist. Host thank you. California on the independent line. Caller hi. I think that the president should dismantle the nsa, the cia, and all of the alphabets. Marshals as the only police. That is all we need. All of this is leaning toward fascism. Thank you. Host cary, north carolina. Hi cecil. Caller i have a problem. We had a Small Business ofinistration on the campus the university of pittsburgh years ago. We were talking about computers getting more powerful. There was a question about personal computers and having one in every home. Before itome time happened. I am 83 years old and i have a problem with this. If your own personal equipment and you do not have an intention of getting on internet, it is a violation of your privacy for someone to listen to what you are doing. And maybe in the name of research. You might want to patent something. Host we will leave it there. Thank you for calling in. Back in december, the president s task force issued this report. Liberty and security in a changing world. The five members of this the acting cia clarke, Richard Jeffrey stone of the university of chicago, and a privacy law professor at the Georgia Institute of technology. Issued 46 recommendations. The first one is on section 215, which we talked about earlier. 215ecommend that section should be amended to authorize the Surveillance Court to issue a in order compelling a thirdparty to disclose private information about individuals thatif one, it finds the government has reasonable grounds to believe that particular information is relevant. Or, two, the order is reasonable in focus, scope, and breadth. They recommend that statutes that offer National Security letters should be amended to permit issuance only upon a judicial finding that the government has reasonable grounds to believe that the information is relevant and intended to protect against clandestine intelligence activities. Those are the top two recommendations of the 46. We will go through a couple more. Rodney is calling from missouri. Hello. Thatr i would like to say , our constitution does not say anything about privacy. Our Founding Fathers did give us a secret ballot. It infers the right of privacy. Host all right. Andy, columbus, ohio. Good morning to you. This is richard in capitol heights, maryland. What do you think about surveillance reform and the speech that the president is giving . Caller thank you for taking my call. Act is law. The only privacy that the people have is the u. S. Postal service. If you do not want somebody to know, send a letter. That is still private. Everybody is giving it up for the internet and phone calls. If you want a private, sunday package. You cannot get more private than that. That is all i have to say. Host andy, columbus, ohio. Thank you for calling. Caller hi. Weust wanted to say that have oxymorons i want the he has a to say that funding permit. Host im going to have to cut you off. The connection was too poor. We could not understand what you are saying. The president is speaking at 11 00 at the justice department. It will be live on cspan. This is the anniversary of president eisenhowers militaryindustrial speech to the American People. It happens to be on that anniversary. Recommendation number four from force, wellance task recommend that as a general rule, the government should not mass,mitted to store undigested arsenal information about individuals to enable future queries. Any Program Involving government collection must be narrowly tailored to serve an important interest. Number five, we recommend that legislation should be enacted that terminates the storage of metadata by the government as soon as reasonably possible. Access should be permitted only with a section 215 order. Randy in michigan, what is your thought on surveillance reform should president s speak speech . Caller thank you for bringing this Great Program on. I do appreciate it. I would like to hear the putting inalk about the privacy advocate. I do think that that would be a good move. More judicial oversight. We need that. Secret is not good. We do not do that in this country. You can have someone oversee it. I like the idea of changing i do i do not know not like the idea of the Government Holding in. Either way, it is a security matter. Number five that you just read, that is the other one. I am sorry i did not catch it all. Those would be the ones i would like to hear and talk about. Article against the surveillance. I do not believe we should throw out our constitutional rights. We have to have some of it. Those are at least a start. , will i ever love the program . No. It is necessary to have oversight. Thank you. Host john is a republican in the fort mill, south carolina. What are your thoughts . Caller mine is a statement. I recall the Founding Fathers tear and he comes in the form of security. I think that comes in the form of the nsa. Host thank you. Barbara bush says no more political dynasties. Do not expect barbara bush to be hosting any job bush fundraisers anytime soon. In an interview on monday on cspan, part of the first ladys series, she says that she is not too keen on making a president ial bid. Here is a little bit from the interview. [video clip] do you think there is room for another bush in the white house . I think this is a Great American country. A great country. If we can find more than two or three families to run for high office, that is silly. Governors andt great, eligible people to run. That the kennedys and bushes there are more families than that. I am not arrogant enough to think that we alone are raising. We are raising Public Service. Servants, whether they are feeding the poor like lara is. Is bringingwho Affordable Health to the world. But, there are a lot of ways to serve. Being president is not the only one. I would hope that someone else would run. Jeb iss no question that the most qualified person to run, but i hope you wont. There are other families. I refuse to accept that this great country is not raising other wonderful people. As part of the continuing series on first ladies, this coming monday night, 9 00, barbara bush. 90 minutes of looking at the former first ladies. The series has been going on since last year. We are nearing the end as we get into more modern first ladies. A lot of that interview will be we have 50 minutes sitting in her living room in houston. On monday. The series will continue. After that piece of video that you just saw out into the public, it was retweeted and played by a lot of different news organizations. Her son, jeb, sent this tweet. What date is mothers day . Asking for a friend. Tune in on monday night at 9 00 to learn more. Calls, we will go to angela in rhode island. What are your thoughts on what you would like to hear the president say . Host the nsai think that surveillance is necessary and should continue. It is not an emergency situation right now. No u. S. Citizens are being affected detrimentally. To deal all, we need with our emergencies, which is the longterm unemployment. Host thank you. Bushsrved in george w. White house and tweeted this they need to balance reforms retaining ability to collect intell while demonstrating protection of rights. Bruce in colorado, go ahead. Caller hello . Host turn down the volume on your tv and start talking. Were listening. Think thes, i president should tell the public about his plans to destroy the country. That program has stopped. We need to realize that in this day and time, we all have to give up something in order to keep this country from being destroyed. That program is working like that. Let it continue. Host thank you, sir. Recommendation number seven from the fivemember task force we recommend that legislation should be enacted requiring detailed information about should be made available on a regular basis to congress and the American People to the greatest extent possible. Lexis rates for real clear politics and tweet this about the president. President convened panels and nsa review panels have in common . Recommendations obama decided he can embrace. Republican, hello. Caller if everybody remembers, this whole Computer System is a carnivore. Later on, it became patriot act. It is data mining that just kept going. I just think that they need to quit spying on their own people. Dismantle old thing. That is all i have to say. Host john in saratoga springs, new york. Caller hello. Two points before i get cut off. Is, thet one constitution does guarantee the fourth amendment, the rate of the people to be secure. Right of the people to be secure. Search and seizure should not be violated. That is in blackandwhite. They should not be doing this point blank. The second point is, we pay for all of this. We talk about the money that they just spend away. We are paying for this. Now they will have us pay for people to monitor the us to make sure they are not doing it. I think that those recommendations that you are starting to read will go a long way to curb this. It is out of control now. It is unpatriotic what they are doing. That is all i have to say. Hill, bill sb puts virginia in play. Bipartisanils agreement. Bipartisan a rarer agreement in virginia. Gillespie is a former advisor to george w. Bush. Both parties concur that warner will be hard to oust. He is a very savvy individual and good at campaigning. The congressman Just Announced and kept airement steady refrain and may not make a difference how good gillespie is, because warner is better. Back to your calls. Joan in antioch, tennessee. Caller how are you doing . I wanted to make one brief comment. Most people are complaining about the security breach. Is, i do not it care who is doing this. Eavesdrop on my conversation because im not doing anything wrong. What is vital is to keep us safe. That is my opinion. A few people have said the same thing. Im more concerned about somebody coming over here and doing something or our own people doing something. If they can get data to curtail that, then i am fine with however they do it. I do not have any complaints. Most people should not. I would rather have my life than somebody do something wrong. I appreciate you listening. Host recommendation number 11 from the Surveillance Task force liberty and security in a changing world. Decisionend that the to keep secret programs of the magnitude of section 215, metadata programs, should be made only after careful deliberation at high levels of government and only with due consideration of and respect for the presumption of transparency. This should be kept secret only if it serves compelling governmental interest. James in new york. Hello. What are your thoughts . Caller i just wanted to speak about the nsa. It is ridiculous, the situation that was going on. They spied on us. The constitution is the most important thing. Everybody talks about fear mongering and situations with the nsa. We need to be protected. Waited to follow the constitution. Andave a right to bear arms to save our family in that sense. Obama, it is a smokescreen for what is going on. Journalists, in the news today, it is incredible. It is linked up with the situation. Sudden, to stay with the constitution do not fall into this fear mongering situation. Stay true. Host thank you. We appreciate it. Larry is in new me