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Surprising considering it was the year of sandra bullock and cate blanchett. those are the numbers. thank you so much for being with us this morning. i'm francis rivera. this is "first look on msnbc." we'll leave you with this live picture from chicago where drivers are making a morning commute in white-out conditions. "way too early" starts right now. >> i've always supported the government spying programs, but apparently unchecked eavesdropping on our own citizens comes at a terrible price. the price. >> the federal government is now suing sprint over the cost of bugging people's phones. a l...

Thought you should know today. developing now in the next few minutes, edward snowden is scheduled to appear live at the giant tech industry festival in austin festival at the south by southwest interactive festival video conference by moscow. he is expected to talk about technology, the community and how it can protect itself from mass surveillance. julian assange who published the revelations about the spying programs appeared at the festival by skype on saturday. new revelations are coming assange said. >> there's important upcoming material. i don't like to give time frames because it te...

And americans safe. >> critics say americans should know more. >> we could have been more candid with the american people up front. >> the nsa has been collecting nearly 200 million text messages a day. that plus phone records and allegations of spying on world leaders, all leaked by former nsa contractor, edward snowden. >> we are dealing with an agency that didn't have adequate enough safeguards to keep a sub krat tore from stealing millions and millions and millions of files. >> the president is expected to back the spying programs but call for more transparency and oversight. perhaps a pub...

Thursday on his speech revealing changes to nsa spying programs. the final decision, by all appearances, came very late. >> i'm, therefore, ordering a transition to end the metadata program as it exists. >> reporter: but the deliberating isn't done. the president saying that his administration will consult further with experts and ultimately leave congress to decide which third party will store details like phone numbers and length of calls. >> who we going to hire? snowden's contract to collect the information? it's not about who holds it. i don't want them collecting every american's informa...

Today, new warnings and reports of possible ties to the russian mob. our phil black is in moscow. he is reporting this morning the code is similar to what's being pedalled on russian-speaking websites. next hour, president obama announces reforms to the nsa and its passive spying programs that have collected information on any of us. we will have more in just a minute. first, the latest on the target investigation. christine romans is our chief business correspondent and phil black is in moscow. he has been gathering details about a possible russian mob connection. christine, let's talk to you...