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You will with the fbi, federal authorities and state and local officials. a routine regular call but you can assume all of this is going to be a subject of conversation. alisyn. >> absolutely. we're going to be talking about it a lot on "new day" as well. barbara, thanks so much for that. also new this morning, a federal appeals court ruling on the side of privacy saying the nsa collection of americans phone records is illegal. pressure now building on congress and president obama to either end the nsa program or to change it somehow. cnn's white house correspondent jim acosta joins us live....

I think spying on the allied leaders, except for potentially the most extraordinary of situations is not consistent with values and jeopardize those important relationships. >> you said if the committees were informed. you're a member of the committee. hu been informed? >> i had not been informed but that doesn't mean the committee wasn't informed. some issues are briefed to the leadership, briefed to the committee or reported to the committee but may not call attention to themselves. is this something that fell through the cracks in terms of committee oversight. before i lay responsibility at...

Department. it may be that's postponed. we're monitoring the situation carefully to determine if that's the case. i don't think we see an iminnoceimminent attack. >> if we had the kind of intelligence we were collecting through the nsa before september 11, do you think 9/11 would have been prevented? >> i think there's a good chance we could have prevented part of it. i think we would have a much better chance of identifying those individuals. >> by this mass collection of information? >> by the various programs put in place since then and part of it is not just the focus of those perhaps on i...

Oath of office. there is some young that believe he is some kind of jason bourn. we need to ask questions, like why did mr. snowden have access to what he had access to. it couldn't have been his job. what about congressional oversight. have we had a failure there? and clearly, mr. snowden granted asylum in russia is a signal of incredibly bad relations between the united states and russia and mr. putin putting his thumb right in america's eye. >> let's talk about some of the specific reforms that president obama suggested. let's put them up on the screen. have a privacy advocate argue against...

When we know he betrayed his oath of office. there is some young that believe he is some kind of jason bourn. we need to ask questions, like why did mr. snowden have access to what he had access to. it couldn't have been his job. what about congressional oversight. have we had a failure there? and clearly mr. snowden granted asylum in russia is a signal of incredibly bad relations between the united states and russia and mr. putin putting his thumb right in america's eye. >> let's talk about some of the specific reforms that president obama suggested. let's put them up on the screen. have a pr...