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Next on the agenda, welfare reform, infrastructure, daca, health care, and of course, building that wall on the southern border. joining us now, political writer at the l.a. times, jay newton small, contributor at "time" magazine and noah shackman, executive editor at "the daily beast." great to have you all here this new year's eve. sima, let me begin with you and start with the president. lately, you've been talking a lot about bipartisan, even in some of his tweets over the holidays. his interview with "the new york times," he said the following -- "the new york times" bipartisan -- "they s...

Considering all of the satellite technology and things that the people at home have access to, is there any way for people who want to help the search, who are sitting at home and maybe are advanced with their computers, is there anything that they can do? >> actually, it's not such a crazy question. digital globe, the leading commercial satellite imaging company, they provide a lot of the online maps, provide images to the u.s. military, they've opened up their archives for the public to go and scour to see if they find anything. now, at the moment the public facing website is down but i'm to...

Snowden's newfound celebrity that i want to concentrate on here. there may be no better time to do it than right now. because saturday was the 12th birthday of the usa patriot act, signed into law by president george w. bush on october 26th, 2001, just about six week after september 11th terrorist attacks. and what has it done since? it has exploited one of the most vulnerable moments in our history to allow the nsa and the rest of washington's military industrial complex to expand federal tentacles, even deeper into our lives. all in the name of making us safer. but has it? still with me, bar...

Match surveillance that they actually didn't have to bother telling the president on a sort of project-by-project basis. and i do think there's a change in the last 48 to 72 hours within the administration, that there's a sense that maybe the nsa has gone too far and maybe there does need to be some rethinking of it. so -- and i appreciate that point, that it doesn't necessarily mean sort of bad presidential behavior, but a set of institutional practices that have emerged, particularly post-patriot act. thanks to all of you for being here and being thoughtful with me. i get trolled for privacy...

Snowden. a few weeks ago, we were talking about the impact of snowden on the united states. today it's clear he's had an impact on the globe. joining me now is noah shackman. this thing last night was bananas. i could not believe it was playing out. >> it was nuts. there's a longstanding tradition about heading the leaders of countries travel where they may. you remember every september, ahmadinejad comes to new york. >> he stays in a hotel and orders room service. >> we don't kidnap him, we don't force him to fly, i don't even know where. yes, this is a very strange thing that just happened. ...