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To kick russia off the g8. they agreed to boycott planned g8 summit meeting in sochi. ru russia dismissed the move as unimportant. the nsa's controversial phone data program could go under a major overhaul. the proposal would allow phone companies to keep the call data instead and require the nsa to get a court order to access the information. in south africa, more compelling testimony in the osc oscar pistorius murder trial. they are cross examining the text messages reeva steenkamp tent -- sent to the olympic sprinter. a few of them were friendly

Restructuring the phone data program that's collected information on billions of calls, texts, e-mails, et cetera in the u.s. one idea is to put the information back either in the hands of a third party, or in the telephone companies' themselves, instead of having it housed by the nsa. like many of the reforms, he is expected to seek, the proposal may have to go through congress first. adam schiff, member of the house intelligence committee, and also briefed last week at the white house about some of the reforms. before i get to nsa, very quickly, there's a lot of bipartisan skepticism about t...

Than a million out of work americans set to lose their lifeline. jobless benefits expire at midnight and there's a bipartisan proposal to extend them but will republicans support the measure? we'll have more on that. plus, the justice department responds after a federal judge ruled just today that the nsa phone data program is legal. more on the direct counterpunch to the ruling that found it to be unconstitutional. fighting for a fair child 70 years later. a hearing is scheduled to clear the name of 14-year-old george steny, one of the youngest people ever executed in this country. "news na...

President. when i'm president one of the first things i'm going to do is call in my attorney general and say to him or her i want you to review every executive order issued by george bush, whether it relates to warrantless wiretaps or detaining people or reading e-mails, whatever it is, i want you to go through every single one of them and if they are unconstitutional or encoaching on civil liberties unnecessarily, we are going to overturn this many, change them. >> president obama says he has increased the checks and balances for these programs, bringing the foreign courts into the process an...

I could eat that all day long. you don't want peanut butter? >> i love peanut butter. >> dig it, girl. >> nancy grace talks to me about her trip behind bars. hour two. thanks for staying with me. i'm brooke baldwin. a lot of folks very upset this afternoon about a new revelation about government spying. a lot of folks defending this. a new report suggests records of phone calls handled by verizon and possibly every phone calling, period, are being funneled into the files of the top secret government data mining service known as the national security agency, the nsa. people briefed on the pro...