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I think really what s bothered the french most about the report and by the way they ve known since june that in fact the nsa was spying when the first reports came out of the edward snowden leaks, that what bothers them most about the le monde report the volume, 70 million in a month s time, between december and january of this year, 70 million intercepts, not only of telephone conversations but also text messages and e-mails, and as well the people that were being spied on were not just terrorist suspects according to le monde anyway but also government officials and administration officials here, which i think has really irritated them the most. they ve protested. they called in the american ambassador, charles rifkin, this morning, to have a chat with him. john kerry, the secretary of state who just happened to be coming to town for an arab summit meeting that s taking place here in paris this afternoon, his timing wasn t so good in the s ....
All the time, spies on flenrien and enemies. we re talking about what, 3 million phone calls a day. is that normal? well, i don t know actually, i guess nobody could really know the precise number and whether that s normal. but certainly being called in, being summoned by the foreign minister to explain yourself is not exactly ra teen for the state department and in fact, the american ambassador charles rifkin was called in by the foreign minister to explain himself. these are it s an interesting thing. what do you mean by summon? well, when they summon an ambassador, it s roorl choreographed. it s quite formal. they call them in. there s significance in who they meet with, what kind of words they use, for example, let s say in french, if you have your high school french there, remember the tu and vu form. the tu form is the familiar and ....
0 that s what the affordable care act s all about. that s its promise. and i intend to deliver on that promise. thank you very much, everybody. god bless you. thank you. all right. so there he is, the president of the united states in the rose garden making a 25-minute or so, maybe 26-minute pitch, if you will, for the affordable care act. acknowledging he is frustrated. he does not like the way the website has worked these first three weeks. nobody he says is more frustrated than i am. no sugar coating he says, but it s going to get fixed. he guarantees it. didn t say when exactly it will be completely fixed but he said people are working around the clock to make it work. we ve got a full analysis coming up as the president goes back into the oval office right now. jake tapper, let me get your quick thought. the president really didn t explain why the website wasn t ready to go perfectly on day one. no, he did upgrade the word glitches is now kinks. so there is an acknowledgemen ....
0 did for her. i love it. that s why it s the better stuff. isn t that great? you know how that story comes a lot of the good stuff comes remember the eyre shallman told me about the pot of the gold at the end of the rainbow, there is he right over there, see. that s john griffin. does not look like that everyone. he s not in as good as shape as he is in this picture. this is chris fabulous producer, does not dress like that out of work. we are out of time. we get in to john berman and michaela pereira in for carol costello. when you talk about leprechauns it s time for the next hour of the show. great to see you. newsroom starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. thank you so much for joining us. i m michaela pereira. and i m john berman. carol costello is off today, and this morning president obama steps in front of the cameras and takes the heat for the obama website glitches. the website has sputtered and crashed leaving thousands of insur ....
took off his shirt, another blurted out, maybe they ll kill us. one man who lost his sister on 9/11 said he wanted to see the suspects face to face. i know the world hears me, and i m sure you hear me. i came a long way to see you eye to eye, khalid sheikh mohammed, and your four dominions. people are cheering in france, but here in the united states investors are worried. francois hol lapplande defeated nicolas sarkozy in a runoff election. he says he will boost government spending in france and now the world is concerned that the european debt crisis is going to continue. we ll see how this election impacts your 401(k) as well as other investments. as you can see the dow jones industrial average has been down all morning. right now it is sitting at about 14 points down. european markets were also down sharply to begin the day but recovered a fair bit of the loss by the day s end. there s a controversial ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage that is coming ....