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Help us if he gets to be anything more than the senator from texas. >> let's bring in amy holmes and jason stanford. amy, what do you think? does he have plans to be more than just a senator here, ted cruz? >> he says he is focusing on the job. let's face it. he's gone to some early primary states been to iowa and south carolina and new hampshire. all of that stuff. it looks like somebody is trying to build a national profile. let's face it. he has been a very vocal proponent of his ideas as a tea party senator. he is the junior senator from texas. the senior senator jon cornyn. i'll get conce...

first up this evening, the director of the national security agency said today that its controversial surveillance programs have helped stop dozens of terrorist attacks. and tonight u.s. officials could be close to filing criminal charges against the 29-year-old behind the biggest intel leak in u.s. history. nbc's chief justice correspondent pete williams joins us now with all the details. good evening, pete. >> reporter: well, they are close, larry. what they're trying to do is thread a needle here because on the one hand they have to satisfy the terms of the treaty we have with hon...

0 offensive. >> with due respect, you didn't answer my question. what did the president do that night? >> he was in constantd touch with the national security team and kept up with events. >> was he in the situation room. >> he was kept up to date through the the day -- >> do you not know. >> i do not remember what room the president was in. that's a largely irrelevant fact. >> the republicans, such as republican paul ryan says the american people don't have all the answers and disputes pfeifer's claim that last week white house emails provided real insight. >> we have only seen parts of this ...

0 the book "it's the middle class stupid." and margaret carlson from the bloomberg view and the great willie geist as well. a lot to talk about today. greg walden, man, we will talk about that in a second. he kind of got it from both sides. >> started with you and heard it j john boehner and about everybody else in his party. >> he did not have a good day. the gun control debate is officially on the senate floor. 16 republicans, that's a pretty big number. 16 republicans joined 50 democrats and two independents in voting to allow the debate to begin. proposals will include background checks ...

>> is that the miscalculation here by the white house, chuck? >> i think the miscalculation was they didn't understand for some reason that john boehner, mitch mcconnell, and jon cornyn, what president obama was asking them to do was, will you risk your political career, will you lose your job in exchange for doing a deal with me that includes taxes? the president never says, will you lose your job in the middle, but that is the fact. they would have lost their jobs. john cornyn would lose in the primary. mitch mcconnell would lose the primary. what i found interesting about last week was ever...