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Players that claim football-related head injuries. this is the latest lawsuit since a judge blocked $765 million settlement. there is concern that that settlement won't be enough to cover all players affected by traumatic brain injuries. nsa whistle blower edward snowden, he is seeking asylum outside of russia now. he formally requested in brazil. he made the announcement during an interview with brazil tv. but the brazilian government says it has yet to receive a formal application. he fled the u.s. a year ago after leaking documents about nsa programs. all right. let's get to some sports...

From capitol hill. moments from now general james clapper and general keith alexander will both be giving their opening statements on nsa programs. over at the white house the obama administration is navigating through rough political waters. joining me now mark mazzetti national security correspondent for "new york times" and chris cillizza nbc contributor and host of "in play." i was talking to congressman schiff on the committee and he said there's going to have to be a narrowing of the nsa's reach of broad metadata as it were. he does not see justification for spying on friendly allies. th...

To this threat all the more necessary. >> this has to be done. we cannot criticize them for doing too little at benghazi and now saying they are doing too much. i am giving them credit. >> the president is getting regular updates and the national security team is meeting. >> heather: thank you, steve, from washington, dc. greg fallout surrounding n.s.a. leaker edward snowden and questions of his status answered when russia granted him temporary asylum but now new concerns are being raised that members of congress are being denied access to important information on n.s.a. programs. peter doocy ...

Isn't in a way -- prosecuting him is the disincentive for someone else to do what he did but do it with nefarious purposes. >> i think we may have conflated two slightly different problems. the first is that in the post 9/11 era, a lot of information that used to be kept segmented and compartmented has now been put together so that you won't have the kind of connect the dots problem that we had in 9/11. both snowden and manning took advantage of that and downloaded arch amounts of data that prior to 9/11 they would not have this had access or need to get to. then the second problem which jonat...

Access for their assigned tasks. >> reporter: meanwhile the nsa says xkeyscore helped them catch more than 300 terrorists by 2008. and quote, not every analyst can perform every function and no analyst can operate freely. every search by an nsa analyst is fully auditable to insure they are proper and within the law. bill, the white house is also working really hard today to calm congress down about these latest reports about nsa programs. the president day is going to meet with eight lawmakers in the oval office and the guest list is a really interesting mix because some are democrats, some ar...